Wayne County, Michigan
Probate File 74
George Hoffman
Died 2 March 1810
Coversheet [Image 163]
Several names [Image 196]
Names from circa 1806 to 1810
Including Peter Thiery, Captain Dyson, and Peter Audrain
Also on the list of demands due the estate was
The United States of America
Expenditures on the farm
Known by Earnest's Farm
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"It is barely possible that there was another reason for refusing to probate this will which never appeared on the surface. George Hoffman, the decedent, had married Margaret Audrain, daughter of Peter Audrain. Hoffman had been appointed collector at Mackinac (Michilimackinac) and was living there at the time of his death. They had one child, George Worthington Hoffman, who was about seven months old at the time of his father's death. George Hoffman, by his will, gave all of his property to his father and mother, providing that neither his wife nor his then unborn son should take any part of his estate. It is possible that the injustice done the infant son was one of the causes the district court had in refusing to probate this will." [Ibid]
