When Martin Hoffman Jr was born in 1777, in Orange, North Carolina, United States, his father, Martin T. Hoffman, was 42 and his mother, Anna Barbara Aker, was 36. He married Betty Tabitha Elizabeth Hahn in 1802. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He died in 1860, in Catawba, Catawba, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Huffman, Barbour, West Virginia, United States.