History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . His ancestors came toAmerica fr(jm Sweden, but his stock was remotely(lerman. The name Springer was given, in sport,by an emperor of Germany, in the eleventh century,to a relation of his, in consequence of an adventurousleap by the latter into the river Saale from the castleof Geiliichenstein, where he had been imprisoned foran alleged crime. This original Springer was par-doned by the emperor, and his estates and powersalso increased. Dennis Springer, the grandfather of Levi Spring
History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . His ancestors came toAmerica fr(jm Sweden, but his stock was remotely(lerman. The name Springer was given, in sport,by an emperor of Germany, in the eleventh century,to a relation of his, in consequence of an adventurousleap by the latter into the river Saale from the castleof Geiliichenstein, where he had been imprisoned foran alleged crime. This original Springer was par-doned by the emperor, and his estates and powersalso increased. Dennis Springer, the grandfather of Levi Springer,lived in early life in New Jersey, where he marriedat Burlington, in 1736, Ann Prickett, where, it is saidto be without doubt, Josiah, Levi, Sr., and otherchildren were born to him. Levi, born 1744, married,about 1768, Annie Gaddis, by whom he had sevenchildren,—Drusilla, Abner, Ruth, Annie, William, 1 For the etymology of the name Springer, and above-mentionedfacts concerning Dennis Springer, tlie writer is indebted to the Gene-alogical and History of the Springer Family, by Springer, of.
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