. The annals of the families of Caspar, Henry, Baltzer and George Spengler, who settled in York County, respectively, in 1729, 1732, 1732, and 1751 : with biographical and historical sketches, and memorabilia of contemporaneous local events. med Congregation is one of the most ancientreligious associations in this county, and Baltzer Spengler was oneof its most prominent and influential members. The exact yearwhen the congregation was first formed is not known; but it hadexisted for some years before it was blessed with the instructionsof a stated teacher. Prior to its organization, in 1742, t
. The annals of the families of Caspar, Henry, Baltzer and George Spengler, who settled in York County, respectively, in 1729, 1732, 1732, and 1751 : with biographical and historical sketches, and memorabilia of contemporaneous local events. med Congregation is one of the most ancientreligious associations in this county, and Baltzer Spengler was oneof its most prominent and influential members. The exact yearwhen the congregation was first formed is not known; but it hadexisted for some years before it was blessed with the instructionsof a stated teacher. Prior to its organization, in 1742, the mem-bers worshiped with the Lutheran Congregation. On August 12, 1744, the elders of the Reformed Church calledRev. Jacob Lischy. Upon his retirement the thoughts of the con-gregation were finally directed to the Rev. Johann Conrad Wirtz,of Bern, Switzerland, who was then pastor in New Jersey. Thecongregation sent him a letter by the hands of Baltzer Spengler,desiring him to come to York, and preach a few sermons with theexpectation that he might become their clergyman. He receivedthe letter on the 21st of August, 1761, and on the 30th he leftNew Jersey in company with Baltzer Spengler for York. ??App. Note Note BALTZER SPENGLERS FIRST HOUSE, BUILT IN 1733. r p f^ t-^ WL ^ WS^:. ^F HB ^ * - ^ ^^M^^3^ aHJ B ia&iii «l BALTZER SPENGLERS SECOND HOUSE BUILT IN 1760. BALTZER SPENGLER. 143 Lewis Millers Family Tradition. Lewis Miller, an amateur painter of scenes and events of Yorkseventy or eighty years ago, and a chronicler of local history, hasin one of his records the following : The first settler, a mile from York, was old Baltzer Spengler: he took up alarge tract of land (had four sons, the eldest, George, came with his father fromGermany), and built a small house this side of the run. I saw the ruins of it iumy time not far from Rock Spring. His sons, George and John, kept the land,Rudolph and (young) Baltzer were in town. When William and Richard Pennlaid o
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