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Can you help me out with a timeframe and place on the Anna Catharina Huffert / Hoffert who married the younger Peter Hartsock? I'm not finding her among the numerous grandchildren of Christian Hufford I (1716-1788).
The first wife of Christian Hufford (Hoffarth) was Elizabeth Keim (=Kaym, Kime, etc.) Of her seven children, there were five sons: Christian Jr. (my ancestor), Philip (buried at Rocky Hill in 1793, age 43), Daniel (to Scott County, Ky), John (to Woodford Co., Ky.), and Casper, with whom you're evidently well acquainted.
You can eliminate my ancestor Christian Hufford Jr., who moved to Washington County, Pa. in 1800. I know all his sons in law, and there's no Peter Hartsock in the lot.
Daniel Hufford had a large family (two marriages), but I'm not aware of a Catherine among his children. He left Frederick County before 1800, so I don't suppose that he would be the father in law of Peter Hartsock even if I missed a daughter. (Most of my knowledge of Daniel's family comes from the numerous deeds in Scott County whereby his heirs relinquished their shares in his estate. I didn't think, when I was researching this, to look in the index for a deed of release by a Peter Hartsock.)
Likewise with John, who also went to Kentucky. He had a daughter Catherine, but she married (in 1815) Jerry Lizenby.
Philip was married to Anna Barbary (maiden name unknown) about 1775. They had a daughter Catherine, likely born about 1781. I have assumed that she is the Catherine Hufford who married (license 26 Oct 1809) James McDaniel, but I could be wrong about that. Shirley Hegeman is the authority on this branch of the Huffords. Philip's widow and family stayed in Frederick County longer than the others of Christian's first family, so this is the logical place to concentrate if Peter Hartsock and Anna Catherine Hufford were married there. (But if they were, why don't I have this from the Frederick County marriage records?.)
Christian Hufford's family by his second wife, Anna Catharina (maiden name unknown; someone has suggested Karfmann or something like that, but I don't know what evidence might support such) consisted of ten children. The eldest of these was Catharine, born 1764 or 1765 (age 15 at confirmation at Rocky Hill, May 1780). She married Michael Fauth (Fout) in 1789.
The children of George Hufford (of Kentucky) are known; no Catherine there to fit. He was likely born about 1766.
Jacob, born 14 Nov 1772, ended up in Sandusky County, Ohio. He married (lic 15 Nov 1799) Catherine Baker. By some accounts, his wife was Catherine Creager, but I don't know whether this represents a second marriage for him, or an earlier marriage for Catherine (whereby Baker might have been the name of her first husband). Jacob had a daughter Catherine Ann, which is just a reversal of the Anna Catherine you're looking for. However, she was born in Greene County, Ohio (ca. 1828), not exactly next door to Fairfield.
The only other son of Christian Hufford was Adam, born 30 May 1769. I know less about his family than any of the other 16 children. In 1790 he was evidently still single, as he doesn't show up on the census (unless he was in Virginia or Kentucky, the censi of which were burned). More likely, in my view, is that he was still in Frederick County, the unnamed male over 16 years old in the household of his half-brother Christian Hufford II. In the same census district were numerous Albaughs, George Hartsock, John Hartsock of Nicholas, Elizabeth Hartsock, several Barracks, David and Teterick Boyer, Peter Beard and Peter Cramer (among many others).
Adam had two daughters under ten years old on the 1800 census of Frederick County. Presumably one of them might have been named after his mother Anna Catherina (____) Hufford. But would this family have been living where they would have come to the attention of Peter Hartsock? He's on the 1820 census of Montgomery County, Ohio (Dayton) and the 1830 of Greene County (Beaver Creek Twp., just east of Dayton). In 1840, he's found in Greenville, Darke County. I believe that the Hannah Hufford who married (4 Sept 1828 (George W. Gott) was his daughter. However, Elizabeth Hufford who married Samuel Swain in nearby Preble County 9 Nov 1843 was more likely Adam's granddaughter.
In 1850, Adam (age 83) is found in the household of his son Daniel Hufford (age 38, born in Ohio) in Darke County. Adam died in 1855 just a bit further west, in Delaware County, Indiana.
Let me know if any of these ramblings are of help to you in identifying the wife of Peter Hartsock.
My biggest mystery is the identity of Maria Magdalena, wife of Christian Hufford II. I figure that she was born about 1753; no later than 1755 and no earlier than 1750 (last child born in 1797), but I have hardly any clue as to her maiden name.
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