Jonas Spengler (bef. 1715 - 1762)

Born before 26 May 1715 in Weiler, Heidelberg, Baden, Heiliges Römisches Reich

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Kindigen) Spengler — married 1744 in Adams County, Colony of Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 1762 after age 46 in York County, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Jonas was born in 1715 and christened on 26 May 1715 in Hilsbach. He was the son of Casper and Judith Spengler.^[1] He was born in Weiler, Baden Wuertemberg, Germany.

He came to the Pennsylvania with his parents on the ship "William and Sarah" which landed in Philadelphia on September 21, 1727. His family settled just east of York, Pennsylvania. He and his brother, Rudolph, purchased a 719 tract of land from the Penns in 1738 near Thomasville, Pennsylvania, in the vicinity of Roth's Church, where he farmed the rest of his life. He married Mary Maria Kindig, daughter of Martin Kindig, in 1744. They had eight children: Joseph, Bernard, Henry, Rudolph, Eve, Judith,Catherine and Anna Mary. Jonas died in Paradise Township, York County, Pennsylvania.^[2]

He passed away in 1762.

Family

Jonas Spengler

Birth: May 26, 1715, Germany

Death: 1762

York County

Pennsylvania, USA

Family links:

Parents:

Hans Caspar Spengler (1684 - 1760)

Judith Ziegler Spengler (1686 - 1730)

Spouse:

Maria Stinia Kindig Spengler (1718 - 1784)*

Children:

Bernhard Kindig Spangler (1745 - 1802)

Siblings:

Jonas Spengler (1715 - 1762)

Bernhard Spengler (1719 - 1804)

Rudolph Spengler (1720 - 1783)

Rudolph Spengler (1721 - 1782)

Phillip Casper Spengler (1730 - 1782)

Philip Caspar Spengler (1730 - 1786)

• Fact: Burial Trinity Roths United Church of Christ Cemetery, Spring Grove, York County, Pennsylvania, USA^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Church book Hilsbach, Baden: Landeskirchliches Archiv Karlsruhe > Hilsbach > Mischbuch 1655 - 1730,1730,Febr. 1732 Archion
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Find A Grave: Memorial #52285288

• Spangler, Edward Webster. 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. https://archive.org/details/annalsoffamilies00inspan/page/24/mode/2up . York, Pa. : [York Daily Publishing Co.] 1896. Page 24, 25.

See also:

• "Deutschland, ausgewählte evangelische Kirchenbücher 1500-1971," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPDT-KC9N : 26 October 2021), Tobias Spengler, 26 Apr 1715; images digitized and records extracted by Ancestry; citing Baptism, Buch, Buch, Niederbarnim, Brandenburg, Preußen, , German Lutheran Collection, various parishes, Germany. Father: Caspar Spengler; Mother: Juditha. This may be why the name Jonas Tobias shows up in researchers trees.

Acknowledgments

• Entered by Cindy (Ferguson) Butler on Nov 3, 2011
• Thanks to Deb Spangler for starting this profile.