. 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. glers who emigrated to America came from the Nurem-berg branch, is discredited, (i) for the reason that they are not mentioned in his fami-ly papers, (2) becausethe christian name Bal-thaser and Caspar arequite unusual in thisbranch. But, hesays, it is not entirelyimpossible, as not allthe side lines are car-ried IN AMERICA. (Old print.) j^ .^
. 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. glers who emigrated to America came from the Nurem-berg branch, is discredited, (i) for the reason that they are not mentioned in his fami-ly papers, (2) becausethe christian name Bal-thaser and Caspar arequite unusual in thisbranch. But, hesays, it is not entirelyimpossible, as not allthe side lines are car-ried IN AMERICA. (Old print.) j^ .^^g ^q^ coutcnded, by the writer, in December, 1894, that the York county Spenglerancestors belonged to the Nuremberg branch, for at that time hehad not located their German domicile. It is true that the namesBalthasar and Caspar do not appear in the Nuremberg pedigree asat first furnished, but of their German christian names, JohannBalthasar and Hans Kaspar, Johann and Hans frequently order to obtain the fullest information, the writer returnedthe Nuremberg tree to the U. S. Consul to have the side linescarried out, which was done; and they unmistakably show thatHans Rudolf Spengler, of Weiler, the father of the York county. FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE. 239 immigrant Spenglers, was a descendant of the Nuremberg the side lines carried out, the christian names Hans, Johann,George, Philipp, Anna Maria and Margaretha are also quite familiarnames in the Weiler-American branch, and they are removed buttwo generations from the Weiler ancestor. The third and fourth letters disclose the fact that Weyler(Weiler) under Steinsburg is not within the confines of the Pal-atinate as 7101V constituted, but was subsequently discovered by thewriter to be in Baden. The fifth and sixth letters show that Jacob Spengler was not anative, but merely a ^?citizen of Schceftland, Switzerland. The seventh letter relates to information subsequently conveyedby pastor Fuchs, and will be found i
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