When Rebecca Chatham Filson was born on 4 December 1817, in Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Joseph Filson, was 49 and her mother, Hannah Marie Livengood, was 40. She married Thomas Hoffman on 9 February 1837, in Chester, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Sadsbury MM, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850 and Valley Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. She died on 7 June 1895, in Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Green Mount Cemetery, West Goshen Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States.