Wilhelm Sprenckel

Found on 10 31 16 Will filed January 16, 1772 Will proved on April 11, 1772 _SPINCKEL, William. York County. January 16, 1772 April 11, 1772 Executors: John Bushong, Henry and William Spinckel. Wife: Catharine Spinckel. Children: William, Henry, Peter, Jacob, Daniel, Margaret m. Tobias Hendricks, Elizabeth m. John Bushong, Catharine m. George Long, Charlotte m. Nicholas Tin, Anna, Eve m. Abraham Immel and Mary m. Martin Shroder.

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. William Sprenckel was born 1695 in Rheinland Pfalz, Germany. He died Jan/Apr 1772 in York, York Co, PA. William married Anna Catharina Ehrhard about 1737 in Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lancaster PA.

Link is UNPROVEN to Johan Heinrich Sprenckel of Germany.

He was given a warrant for 100 acres at Codorus Creek, Hellam Township, Lancaster Co., PA. William’s will was written 16 Jan 1772 in York Co., PA

Information on land warrants:

PENNSYLVANIA COLONIAL LAND POLICY

Land settlement West of the Susquehanna River was neither normative nor encouraged until after this territory was fully released by treaty with the Native American Indians in 1736. After that date, generous inducements and terms were used to promote settlement and expansion into this region of Pennsylvania. The Proprietors' objective in land settlement was to encourage actual settlement at extremely favorable terms, then subsequently bringing the settlers under regular colonial oversight and taxation. The purchase price for 100 acres of land was fifteen pounds ten shillings; the quit rent was one sterling halfpenny per acre, per year, until 1776.

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5 steps to land PENNSYLVANIA LAND WARRANTS, SURVEYS, AND PATENTS

There were five steps in the official land acquisition process from the Proprietors of Pennsylvania. Beginning in the late 1730's, the proprietors of the colony initiated the process based on an (1) Application to Warrant from interested prospective settlers. This resulted in the issuance of a warrant. Most warrants were issued from Lancaster city during this time of the colonial period.

A (2) WARRANT was an official order for the county Deputy Surveyor to initiate a survey of the described tract of land. The warrant document designated the county, township, the person to whom the warrant was issued, the approximate acreage, and the date of issue. The earliest warrants give a general description of the land location. Later warrants give increasingly greater and more accurate detail of the property, including contiguous neighbors.

Original warrant applications and warrant certificates are maintained at the Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, PA. The Deputy Surveyors duplicate copies for York and much of Adams Counties are in the extensive collection at the Historical Society of York, PA.

Then survey, 4. Application for Patent 5. Patent- full, lear ownership of land

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161. Anna Catharina Ehrhard was born about 1716. She died after 1790 in York Co. PA.

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Michael Springle (Sprinkle, Sprengle, Sprenkle) in Pennsylvania: An Evidence Based Reconstruction of His Life and Land, 1724 - 1831 Author: Donna Bingham Munger It is possible that Wilhelm(William) and Michael are brothers (apparently with Michael the older brother) In 1726 William is not listed as a freeman, which would indicate he was not 21 yet. No documents exist to prove the relationship. It is inferred that they lived in Conestoga Township until 1739. Tax records do not help because they ceased in 1726-7 cycle and this township became part of Lancaster Co. in 1729. Tax lists do not exist until after 1751. Michael left somewhere between 1727 and 1734 and William's name does not show up until he purchased a land warrant in 1746. This land was near York, near the road that went to Baltimore. (28 October 1746, Lancaster County Warrant Register no. 507, Survey B-1-5) According to Hively, York 38 it was common for people to squat in these times. He may have squatted on the property of Michael's. (Munger, p. 16)

WILL OF WILLIAM SPRENCKEL

YORK COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA WILL BOOK C (p.92); 1772

In the Name of God Amen

I William Sprenckle of York Township in the County of York in the province Pennsylvania, insomuch _______ and infirm and of Sound Mind and Memory (blessed be God for the Same) and Considering the uncertainty of the Mortal Life do make and Publish this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following; (that is to Say)

Imprimis, I commend my Soul into the Hands of Almighty God; assuredly believing he will receive the Same into his Everlasting Kingdom, through the Merits of Jesus Christ, my dear redeemer in whom I believe.

As for that Worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to enrich me I do dispose thereof as followeth.

I give and bequeath unto my beloved Wife Catharina Sprenckel One Bed and Bedings _____________. Also all the linnon Cloth that ______ in my Possession at the time of my decease. Item I give unto my said Wife Catharina The One third of all my Real and personal Estate to be at her own disposal and to be delivered to her by my hereafter named Executors.

It is my absolute will and I do Order that my Plantation and Tract of Land whereon I now dwell in York Township aforesaid and Shrewsbury Township shall be Sold by my said herein after mentioned Executors at Publick Vendue or otherwise as to them shall Seem meet for the best prise they can and that also my Personal Estate whatsoever (except which I have above given to my said Wife) be Sold at Publick Sale and the Monies arising out of the Sale thereof shall be divided among all my Children, to wit, William Sprenckel, Henry Sprenckel, Peter Sprenckel, Jacob Sprenckel, Daniel Sprenckel, Margaret, the Wife of Tobias Hendricks, Elizabeth Wife of John Bushong, Catharine, wife of George Long, Sharlotte Wife of Nicholas Zin, Anna Sprenckel, Eva, Wife of Abraham Immel and Mary the Wife of Martin Schroder and that the Same be equally divided among them all Share and Share alike (the third which I have before given to my said Wife and my Just Debts and Funeral Charges being thereout first deducted paid and Satified) So that no one of my said herein before named Children have or receive more than the ____ according to my Will and Intent. And I do authorize and Impower my said here_____ named Executors or the Survivor or Survivors of them or the Executors or Administrators of such Survivor or Survivors to Sign, Seal, execute and acknowledge any lawful Deed or Deeds whatsoever for the absolute granting and Conveying all that my aforesaid Plantation and Tract of Land with the Appurtenances in Fee Simple to the purchasor or Purchasors of the Same as fully and amply as I myself at this present time might or could do. And Lastly I do hereby nominate and appoint my Loving Sons William Sprenckel and Henry Sprenckel and my Loving Son in Law John _______________ Executors of this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking all former Wills by me made, allowing this and no other to be my last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand and Seal the Sixteenth Day of January in the Year of Our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy Two.

William Sprenckel

Signed, Sealed, Published and

declared by the said William Sprenckel

the Testator to be his Last Will and Testament

in the presence of Us who have hereunto

Subscribed our Names as Witnesses in the

presence and at the Request of the Testator

and in the presence of each other.

Philipp Grim

Gottlieb Siegel

Jacob Bellmeyer jun.

York County Ss

Before me Samuel Johnston Esquire Deputy Register for Probate of Wills and granting Letters of Administration in and for the County York in the Province of Pennsylvania personally appeared Philip Grim, Gottlieb Siegel and Jacob Billmyer Junior and on their solemn Oath respectively taken according to Law Do say that they were personally present and saw and heard William Sprinkle the Elder in the foregoing Instrument of Writing mentioned Sign Seal publish and Declare the foregoing ______________________________ ___________________ the doing thereof the said William Sprinkle was of Sound and _________ Mind and Memory to the best of these Deponants knowledge and belief and that they Subscribed their Names as Witnesses to the same in the presence of the said Testator and at his request and in the presence of each other.

Philip Gr

Gottlieb Siegel

Jacob Billmeyer jun.

___n and Subscribed before me

on this 11th Day of April 1772

Saml Johnston Dep Regr

INVENTORY OF WILLIAM SPRENCKEL

YORK COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA; 1772

A true and Perfect Inventory and Conscionable Appraisement of all and Singular the Goods and Chattels Rights and Credits which were of William Sprenckel late of York Townp. Deceased as follows, to wit. -

To his Wearing Apparel .................................... L2.13..6

2 Old Blankets ...................................................... -...6..-

an old Bed Stead and a Chaff Bagg ....................... -...3..-

Old Chairs ............................................................ -.10..-

a Cabbage Plane ................................................... -...4..-

a Churn and a Sieve .............................................. -...3..-

Spaids, Shovels and Tongs ................................... -...7..-

Axes, Grubbing Hoes ............................................ -...7..6

an Old Crofs-Cut Saw & a Hand Do. .................... -...5..-

Augers 8/ & old Sickles ........................................ -...8..6

Sheep Shears & old Wool-Cards ........................... -...2..-

one pair of Steel-Yards .......................................... -...7..6

Iron Wedges ............................................................ -...3..-

Chisels .................................................................... -...4..-

a Hammer and a Hatchet ......................................... -...3..-

an Old Pepper Mill ................................................. -...2..-

old Bells and Do Frying Pann ................................. -...4..-

a Jointer, a drawing-Knife & a old Hatchel ............. -...2..-

Old Sythes and Do Iron ............................................ -...6..-

Ditto Pewter & Pint .................................................. -...-..6

a Tinn Quart .............................................................. -...1..3

a Watering Pott .......................................................... -...5..-

an Iron Kettle and two Do Potts ................................. 1...8..-

an Old Brafs Do ......................................................... -...3..-

a Bible & Sundry old Books ...................................... 1...-..-

a Tobacco Box and a Brush ........................................ -...2..-

an old Brewing Kettle & a Tub ................................... 1.13..-

a Kitchen Cup-Bord .................................................... -...9..-

old Casks, Tubs & a Wooling Spg. Wheel .................. -.14..-

a Tub, Tobacco ........................................................... -...7..6

a Chest and a Tub ........................................................ -...5..-

Sundrie Casks and a Tub ............................................. -.15..-

3 Barrels of Cyder ....................................................... 1...2..6

4 Small Casks & 1 Do Chest ....................................... -...5..-

a Side Saddle .............................................................. 1...-..-

a Mans Do ................................................................... 1...-..6

Saddle-Baggs, 1 old Saddle & Do Bridle ................... -.18..-

old Sieves .................................................................... -...1..6

a Break and old Hogsheads ......................................... -...6..6

an Iron Stove ............................................................... 1...-..6

a Harrow ..................................................................... -...2..-

an Iron Stove and a Pipe .............................................. 2...-..6

Hay Forks & Dung Do ................................................. -...6..-

an Apple Mill .............................................................. -.15..-

3 Hives of Bees ........................................................... -.15..-

15 Sheep @ 7/6 each ................................................... 5.12.6

Swine (Small) .............................................................. -...5..-

a Wind-Mill ................................................................. 1.10..-

a Colt .......................................................................... 11...-..-

Horn Cattle ................................................................... 5.15..-

a Stable Lock & a Stable .............................................. -...8..-

Notes

To one due from Jacob Correl .................. L-.15.10

Do Frederick Fisher .................................... 2...-..-

Do Jacob Beck, Princ Labor, Part 2 9/ ........ 4...9..-

Do Jacob Bushong ....................................... 5...-..-

Do Abraham Imler ....................................... 4...-..-

Do Peter Sprenckel .................................... 13...-..-

Do Henry Sprenckel ................................... 25...-..-

...................................................................................... 54..4.10

Bonds

To one due from George Long .................. L14...9..-

Do Nicholas Zin .......................................... 11...-..-

do Henry Sprenckel & Int ............................ 16...-..-

do Jacob Wegerman ...................................... 5.14..8

....................................................................................... 47...3..8

Other outstandg. Dts.

Jacob Sprenckel .......................................... L5.10..-

George Long .................................................. 4...4..5

William Sprenckle (Son) ............................... 3...-..-

Martin Schroder ............................................. 3...8..6

Peter Sprenckel .............................................. 5...9..-

Henry Sprenckel ............................................. 8...7..-

Jacob Beck ...................................................... -.13..-

........................................................................................ 30.11.11

...................................................................................... __________

...................................................................................... 181...8..2

The foregoing Inventory and Appraisement amounting in the Whole to One hundred and eighty pounds eight Shillings and two pence, was faithfully made and taken the fourth day of April Anno Domino 1772.

Philip Grim

(Illegible, in German script)- Appraisors

John Boshang

William Sprenckel - Executors

Henry Sprenckel

ADMINISTRATION ACCOUNTS OF WILLIAM SPRENCKLE

YORK COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA; 1774

The Administration Accompt of William Springle, Henry Springle, and John Bushang Executors of the Last Will and Testament of William Springle the Elder late of York County Yeoman deceased, as well as all and Singular the Goods and Chattels Rights and Credits which were of the said deceased, at the time of his death, and came to their Hands pofsefsion or knowledge, as of their Payments and disbursements out of the same as follows -

Imprimis The Said Accomptants charge

themselves with all and Singular the Goods

and Chattels Rights and Credits of the said

deceased, according to an Inventory &

Appraisement thereof Exhibited into

and remaining in the Registers

Office at York Amounting to ............................... L181...8..2

Also with the Amount of Sales of the

said Goods and Chattels Sold at Vendue

exceeding the appraisement thereof ......................... 31.14..0

Also with so much received for which they

are not charged in the Inventory ................................. 1...0..9

Also with the sum for which they sold

the Improvement and Tract of Land

of the said deceased, according to the

directions of the Testators Will L400.0.0

part of which is in Bonds and becomes due

as follows L30.0.0, first of April 1775, L30.0.0

first day of April 1776, L30.0.0 first of April

1777, L30, first of April 1778 L30, first of April

1779 L30 first of April 1780, L30 first of April

1781, L30, first of April 1782 & L10 first day

of April 1783 ....................................................... L400...0..0

............................................................................. _________

............................................................................. L614...2.11

Exhibited into the Registers Office at York this 7th day of June 1774 -

William Sprenckel } Exrs.

Heinrich Sprenckel

John Bushong

Item The Said Accomptants pray an Allowance for their payments out of the Same -

for Cash paid Samuel Johnston Esqr. Dep.

Regr. for Letters Testamentary ................................... L1...6..9

No.1. Cash paid Jacob Billmeyer Junr for Clks ........... 1...9..0

2. Cash paid for Donadfon as acct proved & tecet ....... 2.12..0

3. Cash paid Francis Bailey for Printing

advertisements, Publishing, the Sale of the said

Plantation ---------------- as pereceipt .......................... 0.10..0

4. Cash paid Michael Hengst for appraisg do ............... 0...7..6

5. Cash pd. Chronimus Probeck -------- pe do .............. 0...3..6

6. Cash paid Philip Grim for appraisg as pe do ............ 0...7..6

7. Cash paid Barned Frey for Cryg Vendue do .............. 0...7..6

8. Cash paid Godfrey Lonberger for Publishing

the Vendue (in Town) -------------- as pe do .................. 0...8..0

9. Cash paid for 3 Draughts of the sd deceased

Lands -------------------------------- as p do .................... 0...8..0

10. Cash paid Jacob Zech for Crying the Vendue

at the Sale of Land ------------- as p receipt .................... 0...7..6

Cash paid Henry Miller for Stating

this Account .................................................................... 0...7..6

By the Registers fees examg Do ...................................... 0.15..6

By the Orphans Court fees ............................................... 0.12..9

By the said Executors Trouble and Expenses

in their adminisn ............................................................ 15...0..0

By Ballance in their Hands

Subject to distribution as it becomes due,

according to the Will of the Testator ............................ 589...5..5

............................................................................. ____________

.................................................................................... L614...2.11

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Generation No. 1

     1. Wilhelm2 Sprenkel (unknown1 Sprenckel) was born in probably "Germany", and died 1772 in York Co., Pennsylvania. He married Anna Catharina Ehrhard. She died Aft. 1790 in York Co., Pennsylvania. 

Children of Wilhelm Sprenkel and Anna Ehrhard are:

+ 2 i. Margaret3 Sprenkle, born Bet. 1731 - 1740 in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; died Unknown.

+ 3 ii. Elizabeth Sprenkle, born 09 Aug 1732 in Lancaster Co., , Pennsylvania [date not proven]; died 27 Jul 1821 in Shenandoah Co., Virginia [date not proven].

+ 4 iii. William Sprenkle, born Abt. 1735 in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; died Abt. 1805 in Rockingham Co., Virginia (date & location not proven).

+ 5 iv. Anna Catharina ("Catharine") Sprenkle, born Abt. 1737 in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; died 1827 in Montgomery Co., Virginia.

+ 6 v. Charlotta Sprenkle, born Abt. 1739 in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; died Bef. 1785.

+ 7 vi. Henry Sprenkle, born Abt. 1741 in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; died Abt. 1814 in probably Shenandoah Co., Virginia.

+ 8 vii. Peter Sprenkle, born Abt. 1743 in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; died 01 Dec 1813 in York Twp., York Co., Pennsylvania.

+ 9 viii. Daniel Sprenkle, born Abt. 1744 in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; died 06 Nov 1821 in Fountaindale, Adams Co., Pennsylvania.

	10	ix.	 	Anna Sprenkle, born Abt. 1745 in Lancaster or York Co., Pennsylvania; died Unknown.

+ 11 x. Eva Sprenkle, born Abt. 1747 in York Co., Pennsylvania; died Unknown in Huntingdon Co., Pennsylvania.

+ 12 xi. Anna Maria ("Mary") Sprenkle, born 22 Apr 1749 in York Co., Pennsylvania; died Unknown.

+ 13 xii. Johan Jacob Springle, born 08 Feb 1750/51 in York Co., Pennsylvania; died Abt. 1811 in Fayette Co., Kentucky _______________________________________________________________________________

Our earliest ancestor is Anstatt Lingenfelder, from Germany, born (est.) 1525. Those who successfully made the voyage over include Johan George and his son Abraham Lingenfelter, Johan Simon Claar, Matthias Walter, Mathias Bausser, Wilhelm Sprenckle, Johan Nicholas Klee of York County, Jacob Adam Dively, George Mark Imler and (maybe) Christian Musselman.

We are not certain which Weyandt made the voyage. Did you know there are 48 ways to spell that name? And did you know that President Warren G. Harding and we are descended from Mathias Bausser?? Wow. He was a president of these United States (what Teapot Dome Scandel?).

What these ancestors have in common is that they, or their children, settled in Bedford County, Pennsylvania for a time. Many of their descendants, our kin, are still there, or in what is now Blair County.

This website leaves much to be done. For now, we want others to see the photographs we have collected from such wonderful people as Donna Gorman, Betty "Tempie" Musselman, the Upper Claar Church of the Brethran, Klahr, Pennsylvania and Thomas Earp and his family in Manchester, Maryland. We will fix this site up over the next few months, though, to include our family lines, information about our ancestors, references, and pictures of us, too!

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German Immigrant History did travel from Germany to Pennsylvania. Then some went to Virginia. Then to Ohio.

Sacred Texts Americana Index Previous Next IMMIGRATION TRENDS ARE DIVIDED INTO THREE GENERAL PERIODS

The German Immigration Into Pennsylvania was by far greater than in any of the other States previously mentioned, but, for the purposes of keeping the record straight, when we speak of the "Pennsylvania Germans" we might just as readily include the Germans settled early in the history of Maryland, Virginia and New York.

The Germans settled in those states had the same causes for leaving the Fatherland, and, in the case of Maryland and Virginia, many were for some time residents of Pennsylvania before removing southward.

As mentioned previously, the pioneers arrived here in the main prior to the Revolution. They came in what may be called three waves: 1683-1710, beginning with the founding of Germantown to the coming of the Swiss Mennonites; 1710-1727, at which time immigration was reaching large proportions, and when publishing of statistics was begun; 1727-1776, at the outbreak of the Revolution, which, of course, put an end for the time being to all immigration.

Few came during the first period, the second increasingly, so that some sort of control seemed in order, and the third brought in large numbers.

The First Period; 1683-1710.--Like the Pilgrims, the Pennsylvania Germans had their own "ship," for in the year 1683 the "Concord" landed at Philadelphia with a small number of German and Dutch Mennonites, who came from Crefeld and Kriegsheim. It is with this group that the interesting story of the Pennsylvania German people begins.

Like many other great movements of history, religion was back of this small beginning.

Already we have noted that William Penn was greatly instrumental in that movement which came to make the Province named for him a noble experiment in religion, the arts and sciences.

As we know, the politicians and ruling families of England and the continent always found it convenient to have some sort of "religion" handy, for emergencies, if not the motivating principles of their lives.

The Reformation did to England what it did to other countries--it upset the apple-cart. It should be explained that in the case of the Lutheran church in Germany, its counterpart in England was the Church of England; the Reformed (or Calvinists) were matched by the Puritans (or Presbyterians); the continental Mennonites, or Anabaptists, were like unto the English Quakers and Baptists.

The Quakers Were Like the Mennonites.--Barclay says of George Fox, founder of the Quakers: "We are compelled to view him as the unconscious exponent of the doctrines, practice, and discipline of the ancient and stricter party of the Dutch Mennonites." The late judge, and one time Governor of the Commonwealth, Samuel W. Pennypacker, a keen student of history, says: "To the spread of Mennonite teachings in England we therefore owe the origin of the Quakers and the settlement of Pennsylvania."

Penn was a zealous missionary, making at least two trips to Holland and Germany, the second in 1677. His companions were George Fox, Robert Barclay, and George Keith, and they landed at Briel, in Holland, with the purpose in mind "to extend the principles and organization of the Quakers in Holland and Germany."

Penn visited the German cities of Frankfort-on-the-Main, Kriegsheim (near Worms) on the Upper Rhine, and Mühlheim-on-the-Ruhr, and we can thus appreciate why it was that residents in those parts were among the first to come to settle what is now Germantown, in Philadelphia.

Penn Awarded Grant of Land.--Charles II, of England, owed Admiral Penn, father of William, a debt of £16,000 sterling, and to rid himself of this obligation the king tendered, in 1681, an immense tract of territory to the son.

The wording of the grant caused some bitter fighting at times between men from Maryland and Pennsylvania, since it was mentioned in the grant that the land was situated between New Jersey and Maryland.

The land was named "Pennsylvania" by the king, over the protests of Penn.

Having thus fallen heir to such a vast holding of real estate, the Quaker who was fired with a missionary spirit, planned what he called a "Holy Experiment" in government. Here was to be the nearest thing to Eutopia thus far planned on earth; religious and political freedom should here be the lot of all.

To make the experiment, he set about at once to attract the necessary colonists; these are the ones mentioned above, in the Valley of the Rhine. Numbers of them remembered their visitor of years before, and it was but a short time until their minds were made up, and they were enroute to the New World.

Francis Daniel Pastorius, of Germantown fame, was one of those in Germany who, having heard of Penn and his plan for a place where religious freedom might be in fact, as well as in name, obtained consent from his father to sail for America--and a sum of money.

Pastorius consulted with the leaders of the intending-settlers at Kriegsheim, Peter Schumacher and Gerhard Hendricks and others, regarding the plans for the long journey, something not done every day in the year. He conferred with Thomas Kunders, Dirck Herman, the Op den Graeff brothers, and others, at Crefeld. These followed him across the terrifying Atlantic some six weeks later.

Pastorius became agent for the Frankfort Company of men from the two above-mentioned cities. He sailed June 6, 1683, and arrived in Philadelphia August 16, warmly greeted by Penn.

The Good Ship "Concord" sailed July 24, with thirteen men and their families, reaching Philadelphia on October 6, 1683, at a time when that place had about 80 houses and cottages. This group settled at what is now Germantown, then separated from Philadelphia by a thick forest, with a bridle-path the only connection.

Under Pastorius, a learned man and scholar, far ahead of his times, the settlement cleared land, built houses, and after many hardships had a prosperous community in good season. But the first winter or so was a hard one for the newcomers, since good, warm accommodations could not be made ready at once.

The success of this original settlement became known as fast as word and messengers could be dispatched to the old settlements. New arrivals came every year, and in 1694 an interesting band of mystics settled on the banks of the Wissahickon.

Some forty in number, under the guidance of Johann Kelpius, they came here to await the coming of the Lord, believing He would appear here probably where they elected to sojourn, on or about the turn of the century. In addition to practicing spiritual perfection, etc., they built an astronomical tower from which to further search out signs for the coming of the Lord.

The Wissahickon Community wasted away in a few years, to be succeeded by another "community experiment," that at Ephrata, under the famed Conrad Beissel. This, too, because it discouraged propagation of the race, eventually passed from the scene. Today we note but the remains of buildings erected by human hands, and a religious offspring which worships elsewhere, but which propigates by means of the body as well as the mind.

The Second Period; 1710-1727.--This period is chiefly concerned with the coming of the Swiss Mennonites in 1710. The movement is closely connected with that of Germantown. The Mennonites of Holland and Switzerland had always been friendly, and close; protests were made by the former to the Swiss authorities regarding persecutions, and monies were raised to alleviite sufferings of their fellow believers in the Palitinate.

The Holland group were doubtless instrumental in getting their Swiss fellows to go through their port of Rotterdam to go to America.

Of the Swiss Mennonites, it is said that they were, if anything, quite "stubborn." By that is meant, they would refuse to bear arms for the State, and it seemed that wars were conducted then, as now, for the benefit of the few--the propaganda philosophy being that "the majority are to reap the rewards." Whether the Swiss were actually engaged in wars or not, they had to have a goodly number of men under arms, especially if any of her neighbor countries were engaged in armed conflict.

Exiled time after time, these Mennonites would again return to Switzerland. Then a plan was tried to force a large number of them to proceed through Holland, hoping they would thence be deported to America. But HoIland would have none of this, nor would England.

In 1711 the Mennonites of Berne got a break--they were permitted to sell property, take their families with them with free passage down the Rhine--if they would promise never to return!

Many of them agreed, and later others did likewise. The trek began about the middle of 1710. On October 23 of that year Hans Herr and Martin Kündig, agents for others, took out a patent for ten thousand acres of land on Pequea Creek, Conestogoe (subsequently Lancaster county, organized 1729).

Figures seem somewhat elusive, for few were kept, as to the number of those early arrivals. For some years there were probably only a few scores a year, up to 1710 (the year of the Pequea settlements), when perhaps several thousand all told arrived.

In 1717 the numbers seemed to alarm the authorities, who were afraid there would be too many Germans here, eventually leading to a preponderance of the wrong kinds of people, so far as the authorities were concerned.

Tulpehocken.--Another important colony in the second period is that of the Tulpehocken, in Berks county.

Failure of certain plans for the enforced emigration of what might be termed refugees in Holland and England, which eventually forced numbers of them to go to Ireland and America, brings us to the Germans settled in New York State. Difficulties among those settled in the Schoharie and Mohawk valleys of New York, including their right to titles to the land on which they had built homes after years of hardship, forced them out of the State bounding Pennsylvania on the north.

Coming by the water route via Binghamton and Wilkes-Barre, down the Susquehanna to the mouth of the Swatara, they followed that stream to what we know as Tulpehocken, upwards of some thirty families arriving in 1723.

The Third Period; 1727-1776.--On October 14, 1727, the Provincial Council did, something for the Germans in Pennsylvania and their descendants, of great and lasting value to historians and genealogists.

Council adopted a resolution requiring all masters of vessels importing Germans and other foreigners to prepare a list of such persons, their occupations, and place from whence they came; further, these immigrants should sign a declaration of allegiance and subjection to the king of Great Britain, and of fidelity to the Proprietary of Pennsylvania.

Such lists with names, over thirty thousand in number, may be found in print. 1 They are also of interest to the amateur researcher. These lists contain also the names of the vessels, captains, port from which last sailed, and date of arrival in Philadelphia. The lists are not too detailed as to the specific parts of Germany, or wherever, that these people hailed. Generally the names are of men, from age 16 upward, women of that day not being too able to write their names, a short-coming noticeable on the lists is they pertain to men, too, by reason of the familiar "[X]."

A number of the lists did state that the arrivals were from this, or that place, and, for a time toward the middle of the 1700’s, the lists would state the number of Protestants and Catholics on board. But after 1754 practically no such information is given, probably due to the excitement prevalent at that time relative to the French and Indian War.

Catholics in Canada were suspected of trying to deal with the Germans living here, but the latter would have no commerce with the French Catholics, having too vivid recollections of their persecutions in France over many long years before.

The immigration through the port of Philadelphia by so many people of the same characteristics, and with much the same objects in life, soon crowded the sections more or less adjacent to that growing city. Penetration was not long in coming, through dense forests into Lancaster, Montgomery and Berks counties.

Wherever there was limestone or black walnut trees, there you would soon find some Germans either farming, or setting up a home prior to turning the soil, for they liked limestone. This for the reason it made fine stone for building homes and churches, as well as lime for fertilizer. Walnut trees growing in healthy stands were also a good sign of fertility of the soil.

Lands Quickly Taken Up.--Once the lands on the east side of the Susquehanna were well taken up, the movements went to the west, and to the north, York and Cumberland timber falling early under the axe of the pioneer farmer and woodsman. The spread was not long in coming, once the troubles with the Indians were controlled.

The Revolution was to prove that the Germans were loyal to the land they had come to populate and to cultivate. And if they fought against the principles and demands of the English crown, they did it alongside hardlaced and stiffbacked Presbyterians whose veins were filled with blood like that of the enemy they fought.

But you must give the Germans their due: they were not among the last to fight--but among the first. It was not the Mennonite who fought with ball and musket--he fought with the plow. Others of his countrymen who had no scruples about "bearing arms" were the ones who went out with Washington to wallop the would-be "tax-leviers."

Those who did not fight were self-sustaining and self-sufficient, and their efforts at farming and making warm clothing, and those who made shot and shell, contributed no little in making a revolution of the people an American independence indeed.

In this group of arrivals after 1710, there must be noted that a number of Pennsylvania Germans under the leadership of Jost Hite, moved down the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, to settle the counties of Frederick, Rockingham and Shenandoah. The western part of North Carolina had a large number of such settlers emigrate from Pennsylvania. The French and Indian War was still simmering when some Pennsylvania Germans went to Ohio, to be followed by larger numbers at the close of the Revolution. Then to Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Texas, California, etc.

People in those states to the west of us probably feel that they are "Westerners," but would it be improper to say that they are in a large sense "Western Pennsylvania Germans?" or "Pennsylvania Germans in the West?"

Footnotes

1 Prof. I. Daniel Rupp’s "Thirty Thousand Names of Immigrants," 1856; also later dates, some editions carrying part of the text in German, as well as English. (No index).

Vol. XVII of Second Series of "Pennsylvania Archives"; with an index.

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History of York Sprenkels Mill by Codorus Creek The commissioners of York County, Haines, Keifer and Bentz, placed wooden bridges at the following places, where the flood had taken away bridges previously placed there : across Codorus Creek at Sprenkle's Mill, at the New Salem Road and Hyde's Fording; iron bridges across the same stream at Penn, Princess, King, Mar- ket, Philadelphia and George streets, in York; two at Loucks' Mill in Spring Garden Township, at Myers' and Brillinger's Mill in Manchester Township; across the Little Conewago at Emig's and Neiman's Mills; across the Big Conewago at Gross' Fording, Diehl's Mill, Benedict's and Bowers' Ford- ings ; one across Bermudian Creek in York County; across one of the many Beaver Creeks in York County at Mase- mer's Mill, two across Mill Creek in Peach Bottom, and two across Oil Creek near Menges' Mill. The cost of these bridges was $91,000.

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History of Hellam Township (Hellem) In 1736 German, English, Swiss, French, Huguenot and Scotch Irish settlers entered into a treaty with the Indians for settlement of the lands west of the Susquehanna River. From 1736 - 1739 the area was under the authority of Hempfield Township from the east side of the river. Charles Jones was the constable of Hempfield and lived in the Hellam area. In 1739 the Provincial Assembly passed a special act to empower Lancaster County Court to lay off townships west of the Susquehanna. An unsurveyed area about the size York County is today was called Hellam Township. It was settled mainly by industrious German farmers.

In 1739 the Monocacy Road, the first road of Hellam Township, was established. From prehistoric times, this natural corridor was used as a travel route by Native Americans establishing a trail between the Susquehanna River and the Monocacy River in Maryland. It followed the path of an old Indian trail as did many of the roads in Pennsylvania Kreutz Creek Church Kreutz Creek Church at that time. It began at Wright's Ferry and passed through what is now the borough of Hallam, across the Codorus Creek to what would become Yorktown and continued on toward what became Hanover and down to the Maryland line. This trail was used by settlers and eventually became a main road to the west. Today US Route 30 is located in alignment of the old Monocacy Trail.

In 1741 the Penn proprietors laid out the Town of York on its present site. This new town, combined with the expansion of Wrightsville, increased trade and traffic through the Hellam Valley. An act sanctioned in 1741 by James Hamilton, Deputy Governor of the Province, authorized York as the fifth county of Pennsylvania and the first county west of the Susquehanna.

By 1749 York County contained 1466 taxable properties. The increasing population west of the Susquehanna River and the difficulties of travel to the Lancaster Court for settlement of grievances among settlers caused petitions for the formation of a new county to be signed by some influential citizens of Lancaster County.

Between 1754 - 1763 came the French and Indian War. German immigration halted during this period. With the war came Indian attacks on settlers in the areas west and north of York County. Settlers began to withdraw from the areas to safer places east of the Susquehanna River. With the end of the French and Indian War, immigration from Germany to Pennsylvania resumed and Hellam Township continued to grow.

Deposits of iron ore were found in the Township about Accomac Inn about 1907 Accomac Inn about 1907 this time. The time of greatest migration of Germans from the Palatinate into the province of Pennsylvania was in 1754. The German farmers were drawn from the small farms of Germany, where land was not owned, to the hundreds of acres available for ownership in Pennsylvania. Some of the best farmland was to be found in the valleys of Lancaster and York counties. The Kreutz Creek Valley in Hellam Township attracted these farmers.

In 1775 the Accomac Inn was constructed along the Susquehanna River at the site of Anderson's Ferry, which was chartered in 1742. The ferry was the primary crossing site of the Susquehanna River in colonial times.

In 1783 after the Revolutionary War ended, the distinctive society of the Kreutz Creek Valley had been formed. Occupations, services and businesses supporting the agricultural economy and life of the Pennsylvania Germans...

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Mennonite Records: Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Mennonite Vital Records, 1750-2014 Charlotta Sprenckel William Sprenckel Head Margaret Sprenckel Child Anna Catharine Ehrhard Spouse Elizabeth Sprenckel Child William Sprenckel Child Catharine Sprenckel Child Henry Sprenckel Child Charlotta Sprenckel Child Peter Sprenckel Child Anna Maria Sprenckel Child Jacob Sprenckel Child Eva Sprenckel Child Daniel Sprenckel Child Anna Maria Sprenckel Child

Name: William Sprenkel Description: Father Event: Baptism Church: Records of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, City of York, York County, Pennsylvania, 1733-1800

Children Not Linked Yet: Peter Sprenkle(1744-1813)

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• Mennonite Records:
• Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Mennonite Vital Records, 1750-2014
• Charlotta Sprenckel
• William Sprenckel Head
• Margaret Sprenckel Child
• Anna Catharine Ehrhard Spouse
• Elizabeth Sprenckel Child
• William Sprenckel Child
• Catharine Sprenckel Child
• Henry Sprenckel Child
• Charlotta Sprenckel Child
• Peter Sprenckel Child
• Anna Maria Sprenckel Child
• Jacob Sprenckel Child
• Eva Sprenckel Child
• Daniel Sprenckel Child
• Anna Maria Sprenckel Child
  
  
• Name: William Sprenkel
• Description: Father
• Event: Baptism
• Church: Records of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, City of York, York County, Pennsylvania, 1733-1800

Children Not Linked Yet: Peter Sprenkle(1744-1813)

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