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As Gayle noted, there were several men by this name and spelling variants who had active-duty or Patriot service during the Revolutionary War.
You can check for the surviving records for Militiamen and some others from PA, here:
http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/
Use the link at bottom to choose from the online databases
The Pensioner under S-38042, from whose Declaration for Pension you quote, was last paid his pension in Sept. 1823. So he probably died in mid-1823. There is no indication that his wife Margaret applied as widow. The Pensioner said he had no other family besides wife Margaret, so he would not have had descendants who applied for membership in one of the lineage societies.
It is most likely that the Pensioner was buried in Berks Co. You can go to the Berks Co. Courthouse and investigate his estate, land, court and tax records. A Christian Hoffman was enumerated as head of household for 1820 in North Ward, Reading, Berks Co., for 1820 but not thereafter.
The 12th PA Regiment (Continental) was consolidated as of 1 July 1778 with the 3rd PA Regiment (Continental). See a brief sketch the history of the 12th here:
http://www.myrevolutionarywar.com/states/pa/pa-12.htm
As for the man buried in Fetterhoff Church Cemetery, Halifax, Dauphin Co., PA (1752-1845), he would not be the one who served in the 12th PA Regiment (Continental) and was pensioned. There are countless instances where persons installing or writing memorials had done incomplete research, and who conflated records about persons by the same name. The record of the one who served in the 12th/3rd would have been much easier to find than militia and other records. A man who had more than incidental active-duty Militia service during the War could have applied for pension in the 1830s or 1840s. There is no indication that the man who died in 1845 did so.
You can go to the Dauphin Co. Courthouse and check for the estate, land, court and tax records for the Christian Hoffman who d. 1845. Since Dauphin Co. was taken from Lancaster Co. in 1785, you would want to check Lancaster Co. records for the time period of during the Revolutionary War. If the Dauphin Co. man had not moved drastically between 1770s-1845, if he served in the Militia it would have been in Lancaster Co. But it would be land and tax records that would tell you whether the one who d. in 1845 moved to Dauphin Co. after it was created.
Good hunting,
Jade
All able-bodied free white males aged roughly 16-60 (varies by time and place) were required to be available for County Militia duty. The Militias of SE PA pre-existed the Revolutionary War, and there were several Berks County Militia Battallions existing by 1776, including one known as the Third Battallion.
As far as I have been able to determine from indexes, there was but one person by this name who served in the PA Continentals, in the 12th/3rd. You can look at his surviving service record on National Archives microfilm, Micropublication 246, Rolls 80 and 84. You can borrow these by inter-library loan from the Archives.
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