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    Springettsbury Manor is associated with the area now known as the town of York, in York Co, , Pa and the town's environs. It is the largest of all Penn Manors, and was  the first sanctioned settlement west of the Susquehanna in Penna history. This region was also claimed by Maryland causing turmoil and bloodshed for the early residents. See About Penn Family Manors for understanding of the Manor System

    This Manor evolved as a result of  the anxiety of the Penn Proprietors and their agents regarding an increasingly hostile view on what constituted the Penn and Calvert [Lords Baltimore of  Maryland]  boundary line not thoroughly resolved until the Mason Dixon Survey of the 1760s. Formation of this manor, the largest of any of the Penn Manors in all the colony,  represents efforts  of the Penn Proprietors to stem  influx of Catholic Marylanders settling along the Susquehanna in the late 1710s & early 1720s.

    Although  deed from the Natives to Pennsylvania's agents  for "All the Land West of the Susquehanna to the Setting Sun" was not obtained until 1736, Springettsbury, located west of that river, was provided to the Penn agents by the natives in 1722 as a sign of friendship towards Springett Penn, the deceased William Penn's grandson  &,  at that time, perceived heir- at the Governor's request, thru his  efforts & resultant of the Governor's  desire to stem the tide of Md settlers.
    Springettsbury  thus represents the first possesion of  Pennsylvania west of the Susquehanna and 
    its history  includes Cressap's War of the 1730s, an apisode in the  border wars between Md and Penna. 

    The original survey of Springettsbury Manor occured  1722 in then Chester County and  referred to an area 
    including  what today are known as  " all of Springettsbury and Spring Garden, most or portions of West Manchester, Manchester, East Manchester,  North Codorus, Jackson, Dover, York, Windsor, Lower Windsor and Hellam townships" within today's York County, and  comprising an area involving  75,520 acres2 equating to an area  6 miles wide and 15 miles long. 1. See Map.  Before pertaining to  York County [1749], the region pertained to Lancaster County when it was apportioned from Chester [1729] . 
    The area was resurveyed in the 1770s and  reduced by 11,000 acres. 

    Found among the  original warrantees of Springettsbury Manor are Casper Spangler . His son  Jonas SPANGLER appears likewise in the Colonial Index.  Four Generations of our direct Spanglers considered this region home, the last on marriage removing to Gettysburg, Adams County, Pa. 

    Background for Springettsbury Manor:
    "History of York County from its erection to the present time [1729-1834]"  By W. C. Carter & A. J. Glossbrenner remarks:

    "About the year 1684  a violent dispute arose between William Penn and Lord Baltimore, concerning the boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland. The dispute continued until the death of Penn, in the year 1718, when it assumed, on the part of the Marylanders, a character of violence and aggression hitherto unknown to it. Their object was to make settlement many miles up into the present state of Pennsylvania: and having thus taken possession of the lands, to hold them by the strong arm of power. With these views they pushed their settlement with great rapidity along the  Susquehanna: even in 1722, many of them were within a short distance of the present borough of York. ...
    "Sir william Keith...Lt Governor of the province of Pennsylvania, ...was anxious to hinder these encroachments on what he believed to be the property of the heirs of Penn....the lands had not, as yet, been purchased from the Indians by the propretor of Pennsylvania, and much less by that of Maryland......the policy of Penn ever had been to grant no rights to lands, and to permit no settlements on them, until purchased of the Indians.....
    "[Keith consulted] ...the Indians in the neighborhood of the Suquehanna, and ...consulted or held a treaty with the Indians at Conestogoe on the 15th and 16th of June, 1722, when they counselled together concerning the making of a survey  for the use of Springett Penn, the grandson, and as then believed, the heir of William Penn" 8. Present at the meeting was the Govenor with two others on the part of the Colony, and the chiefs of the Conestogoes, Shawanas and Ganaways, among them Tawena8... Tawena's  name is also mentioned in the Madame Ferree story on her arrival to the Pequea Valley East of the Susquehanna in then Chester, now Lancaster County, found east of the Susquehanna and in about 1712]

    "...Part of Chester Countyís western frontier at the beginning of the 18th century [desired] Settlement along the Susquehanna was important to Pennsylvaniaís future development not only because of the boundary dispute with Maryland that precipitated Cresap's War (1731-1736) but also because the Susqehanna was a trade route  that provided direct accesss from Pennsylvaniaís hinterland to the West and to the Chesapeake, The heartland  of the American colonies. ì10
     
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    Background for Springettsbury Manor:
    "History of York County from its erection to the present time [1729-1834]"  By W. C. Carter & A. J. Glossbrenner remarks:

    "About the year 1684  a violent dispute arose between William Penn and Lord Baltimore, concerning the boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland. The dispute continued until the death of Penn, in the year 1718, when it assumed, on the part of the Marylanders, a character of violence and aggression hitherto unknown to it. Their object was to make settlement many miles up into the present state of Pennsylvania: and having thus taken possession of the lands, to hold them by the strong arm of power. With these views they pushed their settlement with great rapidity along the  Susquehanna: even in 1722, many of them were within a short distance of the present borough of York. ...
    "Sir william Keith...Lt Governor of the province of Pennsylvania, ...was anxious to hinder these encroachments on what he believed to be the property of the heirs of Penn....the lands had not, as yet, been purchased from the Indians by the propretor of Pennsylvania, and much less by that of Maryland......the policy of Penn ever had been to grant no rights to lands, and to permit no settlements on them, until purchased of the Indians.....
    "[Keith consulted] ...the Indians in the neighborhood of the Suquehanna, and ...consulted or held a treaty with the Indians at Conestogoe on the 15th and 16th of June, 1722, when they counselled together concerning the making of a survey  for the use of Springett Penn, the grandson, and as then believed, the heir of William Penn" 8. Present at the meeting was the Govenor with two others on the part of the Colony, and the chiefs of the Conestogoes, Shawanas and Ganaways, among them Tawena8... Tawena's  name is also mentioned in the Madame Ferree story on her arrival to the Pequea Valley East of the Susquehanna in then Chester, now Lancaster County, found east of the Susquehanna and in about 1712]

    "...Part of Chester Countyís western frontier at the beginning of the 18th century [desired] Settlement along the Susquehanna was important to Pennsylvaniaís future development not only because of the boundary dispute with Maryland that precipitated Cresap's War (1731-1736) but also because the Susqehanna was a trade route  that provided direct accesss from Pennsylvaniaís hinterland to the West and to the Chesapeake, The heartland  of the American colonies. ì10
     
     

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    FACTS CONCERNING SPRINGETTSBURY MANOR:


    Footnote one
    "A warrant to re-survey the manor of Springettsbury was issued on the 21st of May, 1762 by James Hamilton, then Lt governor of the province. The re-surey however on account of the uncertainty of the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland was delayed about six years" 8 Springettsbury Manor was resurveyed in 1768 and this second survey, conducted by Charles Lukens found Springettsbury Manor  covered " 64,520 acres instead of the 75,520 in the 1722 survey and with vastly different lines. The discrepancy on such an important piece of land points to the complexity of determining property lines in a previously unsettled territory. The second survey becomes necessary because of confusion over the lines established in the 1722 survey." 2The resurvey led to The earliest map of Springettsbury [made in 1768].

    Footnote 2
    "On the 27th of Nov 1779 the legislature passed an act for vesting the estates of the late proprietaries of Penna in the commonwealth. But there was an exception of all proprietary tenths or manors which had been duly surveyed and returned into the land offie before the 4th of July 1776. The consequence was the Springettsburgy manor remained the private property of the Penns; and as such it has been held, for the most part, down to our times. [Ed note; source cited  first published 1834]  Of the warm and tedious disputes which have existed during the last 25 years between the landholders in Springettsburgy Manor, and the agents of the Penns, we speak not here: The best account of them is to be foundin the books of reports which furnish the layerrís library. The disputes, however, may well be likened to the border wars connected with the Maryland encrouachments on the territory of Penna previous to the year 1768."8
     
     
     

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    Cressap's War, Penna  [1731-1736]

    Regarding Confusion and Two Cressap's Wars

    There are two CRESSAP's wars associated with two different periods in American history in two different colonial regions.
    The first,  holding relevance to the Manor of Springettsburg, in now York County, Penna occured 1731-1736 and was given its name for Colonel Thomas Cresap and can be found as Cressap's/ Cresap's /Cressup's War. The 2nd Cresap's war, and the more famous, was associated with the Ohio Indians and Virginia's Lord Dunmore in the 1770s1. See Footnote

    In 1731 Col. Cressap, under a pretence of a right from Maryland, squatted in the York Valley. Soon a number of Maryland intruders followed his example. Col. Cressap  was a trader with strong ties to the Scotch Irish.  Springettsbury  was not the only
    of  Penn family Manors of Relevance to our Forebears coming into conflict with the Colony of Maryland.
    See also  Digges Choice. relevant to the area now known as Hanover, Penna.

    Background to Cressap's War, Penna  [1731-1736]:

    While the Penns had acquired the land for Springettsbury Manor from the Indians through the 1722 meeting discussed above, and while they were actively engaged in acquiring ALL lands west of the Susquehanna by deed and purchase from the natives, the land was also claimed , as discussed in legnth above, by Lord Baltimore within the Province of Maryland, a dispute in boundary from the time of their inception.  Patents were issued by the Maryland authorities to settlers for lands in the vicinity of the present City of York. A farm owned by Henry Spengler disussed above, now in Windsor township, York county, was originally acquired by a Maryland patent, supplemented by a patent from the Penn proprietaries.

    "Maryland asserted claim to land as far north as the Fortieth Parallel (in York County, approximately where the Codorus Creek enters the Susquehanna River). Pennsylvania claimed land as far south as the Thirty-ninth Parallel (in Maryland, this would have included Baltimore City). Thus, a horizontal strip of virgin territory about fifty miles wide from Philadelphia in the East the Kittochtinny Mountains to the West was at stake."From  DISPUTE WITH THE COLONY OF MARYLAND

    " Lord Baltimore contemplated as early as 1721 to extend the northern boundary of his Province, on the west side of the Susquehanna river, to the northern limits of the fortieth degree of latitude. (About three miles north of York). As late as 1762 the Maryland authorities exercised jurisdiction in this territory, and in pursuance thereof issued licenses for the regulation of tavern rates for certain taverns near Yorktown. About 1731 Col. Thomas Cressap, under a pretence of a right from Maryland, squatted in the York Valley. Soon a number of Maryland intruders followed his example.
    "In order to counteract these encroachments, it was the policy of the Penn proprietary agents to invite and encourage settlements on the borders. Such settlements were made and had been made within the Manor of Springettsbury, or York Valley. There was a contract that titles should be made to the settlers whenever the lands should be purchased of the Indians. Certificates of license were accordingly issued, furnishing patents upon the usual terms for which other lands in the county were sold. A commission was issued to Samuel Blunston, in 1733, to grant licenses to settle and take up lands on the west side of the Susquehanna.
    "Hundreds of individuals accepted these invitations to settle, and soon a dense settlement was made west of the Susquehanna. Contentions soon arose. " 7

    "As early as 1722, Philip Syng and Thomas Brown secured a Maryland warrant on the west side of the Susquehanna River, called "The Partner's Adventure" (Springettsbury Manor Survey "S-391"). Soon after others from Maryland followed, along with hundreds of unauthorized settlers from either colony."  From  DISPUTE WITH THE COLONY OF MARYLAND

    "A few years after Caspar Spangler's occupation of his first plantation the notorious Col. Thomas Cressap and others, under authority from the Governor of Maryland, and in virtue of an alleged patent to the latter from the King of Great Britain, assumed the right to oust by force the German settlers west of the Susquehanna with the purpose of occupying these fertile lands themselves. For years an armed conflict was waged." 7"The unsettled and undefined boundary line between the Province of Pennsylvania and Maryland, gave rise and encouragement to Col. Cressap and his desperadoes to commit acts of violence. Murders [1App. Note 63.] followed and the German settlers were threatened, by force, to be turned out of their settlements. The Cressap war ensued, which lasted for years.
    In one of the battles the Sheriff, aided by a posse of twenty-three men, went to Cressap's house early in the morning and read a warrant for murder to him in his hearing, several times over, and demanded a surrender. In answer thereto, Cressap swore he would never surrender till he was dead. He called for a dram of rum, and drank "Damnation to himself and all with him, if ever they would surrender." He swore he would kill all the Pennsylvanians before he would be taken. He would shoot the first of his own men who would refuse to fire at his command, or would offer to capitulate. Before any violence was offered, Cressap and his men fired upon the Sheriff and his posse, and wounded several. Before the battle was over several more were wounded on both sides and one killed." 12 page 119-120

    "During the 1730's, the prolonged border dispute between Maryland and Pennsylvania exploded into Cresap's War--named for Thomas Cresap, a justice of the peace for Maryland. For several years Cresap and a group of vigilantes harassed German settlers living along the Susquehanna--settlers who lived there under Pennsylvania land permits. Cresap even threatened to arrest John Wright and Samuel Blunston. The governor of Maryland dispatched a militia to arrest Wright, and remove the settlers living in the area without Maryland permits, but 150 Pennsylvanians assembled to defend Wright's Ferry. King George II ultimately intervened in 1738 and forced a peaceful resolution." from Columbia, PA 17512 pages"An informal territorial dispute, known as  Cressap's War" was joined by settlers having allegiance on either side. Insult, abuse, abductions, arrests and occasional armed conflict ensued. The issue was appealed by both colonies to the Royal Court in England. As a result, on August 18, 1737 the royal order commanded that neither colony was to make grants within the other's confirmed territory. The next year, on May 25, 1738 an eight-part judgment was issued, establishing the conditions of authority and government over the disputed lands until the boundary issue could be settled by actual survey. A temporary line was laid out in May 1738 running along 39 Degrees 43 Minutes 18 Seconds Latitude. The survey commission reported back on May 28, 1739, effectively ending serious future boundary incursions. This colonial boundary was finalized in the Mason-Dixon Line in 1765."
    From DISPUTE WITH THE COLONY OF MARYLAND"

    In 1738  the Penn Proprietor's surveyor wrote a letter  to them in fear for his life. It is presented in link.

    "The invaders were finally ejected and peace restored. In an indictment found against these encroachers mention is made of the lands in the "quiet and possession" of Caspar Spengler" 7
     
     

    The Surveyor Alarmed for His Life

    "SURVEYOR BUTCHER'S TRIBULATIONS

     ' TO THE HONBLE THOMAS PENN, PROPRIETOR OF THE PROVINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA, &C.

    YE PETITIONER HUMBLY SHEWETH

                 That your Petitioner having accepted your benevolent favor of being Deputy Surveyor of all the Lands and Mannors in that part of Lancaster County which lyes on the west side of Susquehanna river. When the same was attended with utmost Difficulty and Scarcity of Bread; Yet notwithstanding your humble Petitioner hath hitherto Carried on the affair with the utmost integrity and Resolution: Have suffered no person to impose on the interest of the   Honble Proprietors in the Execution of his office: have Endeavored all peace as possible among the sittlers; Have laid out the Lands as regular as possible the places will bear--In performance of which your Petitioner hath many Times been in hazard of Life many ways; Sometimes threatened to be shott by Insolent persons, Many weeks at a time have seen no sort of bread have Suffered much cold Lying in the woods many Nights Together Took all patiently hoping to be Continued in the Honble Proprietors good Service When Times Should mend Bread more plenty and the affair settled between the Honble Proprietor and Lord Baltimore. But your Petitioner having of late seen warrants Directed to  another person to Execute surveys within the Bounds of afforesaid and that on the most valuable part for advantage--proves very Discouraging to Your Petitioner in his undertaking.

    Now if the Honble Proprietor Out of goodness to your humble Petitioner considering the Hardships he has undergone will please Continue him in your Hons good service--according to the Limits as above sd until Something Shall appear to make him unworthy of your Hons benevolent favour; And your humble Petitioner in Gratitude Shall ever pray

     September 10th 1738.                               ZACH BUTCHER.'

    The above is one of the many complaints made on account of the encroachments by Lord Baltimore on Pennsylvania territory.
    The dispute led to violence and the Cressap intrusion.î  13 p 327
     
     

    See also dedicated page:   Cressap's/ Cresap's /Cressup's War.


    Footnote 1:
    There was another, later  CRESAPS war associated with the Ohio Indians and Virginia's Lord Dunmore in the 1770s.
    It recieved its name from Captain Michael Cresap , though he was not responsible for the acts of violence that followed, popularly called "Cresap's War." This is the war involving the Indian Chief  [Mingo] James Logan,  a previously peaceful leader of his people, and upon whose family great violence had been brought by the colonials, forcing him to change his stance. Chief James Logan was named for our forebear James Logan, Surveyor General and Secretary to William Penn .
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    Springettsbury and our direct SPANGLER forebears:
     
     

    Our direct Casper Spangler and two of his  [half] brothers had lands in this Manor
    The SPANGLER family presents strongly involved with Springettsbury Manor, three brothers residing  and producing progeny there.  While this writer's direct Casper bought his land from Thomas Penn, his [half] brother Henry originally acquired a Maryland patent, but this was supplemented by Penn Proprietary patent.

  • Casper Spangler, our direct, is discussed just below. His youngest [half] brother Henry Spengler  who arrived with other of Casper's half brother's in 1732,   "owned  a farm , now in Windsor township, York county,  originally acquired by a Maryland patent, but supplemented by a patent from the Penn proprietaries." 7
  • Casper's other half brother Baltzer who resided York County arrived with Henry in 1732  ìHe purchased for ú30 a tract of 200 acres of land, nearly all virgin forest, one mile east of the Codorus Creek in "Springettsbury Manor," from Tobias Frey who acquired the same by settlement and improvement. Other lands adjacent were acquired by Baltzer Spengler by purchase, so that he had patented to him February 24, 1763, four hundred and eighty seven acres in York township. This tract extended southward from the Peachbottom Road, now the Plank Road, at its intersection with the first run, a large portion of which was afterwards known as the "Baumgardner Farm." Some of this land was sold by Baltzer Spengler in his lifetime, and after his death, the title to the remainder became vested in his sons George and John, and afterwards in Sheriff Zachariah Spangler, a son of John. A large portion has been annexed to the City of York on the southeast. Baltzer afterwards acquired by purchase other lands in the same vicinity, one tract having been designated in the patent issued therefor, April 19, 1768, as "Spengler's Recovery." î13 p 138  See also  Name Index for THE MANOR OF SPRINGETTSBURY

  • Footnote 1
    Edward Spangler wrote:
    "ìCaspar Spengler located with the "Permission of the State Proprietaries of the Province," and in virtue of the right of "Squatter Sovereignty" seven hundred and eleven acres of lime-stone land about one and a half miles east of that portion of the banks of the"Katores" on which York-Town was thirteen years later laid out. The plantation began at the northern range of hills and extended across what was later designated as the "Great Road leading from York-Town to Lancaster." It embraced the present magnificent Kohr, Schotzberger, Weidman, Matthews, and Keesey (lower portion) and several other farms. A deed for 385 acres thereof was executed by Thomas Penn to Caspar Spengler, October 30, 1736, the main consideration being settlement and improvements.Bernhard Spengler, a son of Caspar, December 1st, 1767, acquired the warrant and title to the northern section of 326 1/2 acres.The southern portion, bisected by the "Great Road," was conducted by Caspar in conjunction with his youngest son, Philip Caspar Spengler.

    ìShortly after the above occupation and settlement, Caspar located a tract of land of seven hundred and nineteen acres, seven miles west of the Codorus Creek, "near the Little Conewago  Creek on the Conogocheague Road" (now the York and Gettysburg Turnpike,) on which he placed his sons, Jonas and Rudolph.A warrant for the same was issued October 16, 1738, to Caspar, who assigned his interest therein to his said two sons, and to whom patents were subsequently granted. The particulars attending this pre-emption will be found in subsequent pages. Caspar Spengler and his associate settlers were subjected to great inconveniences during the first decade of their settlement for want of suitable houses, mills and many family necessities.î 13
     
     
     

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    About Blunston Licenses
    Blunstone Licenses also play a part, though not as numerous , in the Manor of Maske in Lancaster County [ now Adams County]
    They are discussed in further detail than that here, and with detailed relevance to that Manor, in the Manor of Maske discussion of blunstone licenses.
    "In order to counteract the Maryland encrouchment, it was the policty of the proprietory agents to invite and encourage settlements on the borders. Such settlements were made within the manor of Springettsbury. ...Certificates of licenses were accordingly issued, promising patents upon the usual terms for which other lands int he county were sold. A commission was issued to Samuel Bluntson on the 11th of Jan 1733-4, to grant license to settle and take up land on the west side of the Susquehanna. The first license issued by Bluntson is dated 24 Jan 1733-4 and the last on 31 Oct 1737. All of the numerous licences prior to the 11th of Oct 1736  were for lands out of the Indian purchases: yet these grants, though at first rather irregular, were of right to b confirmed by the proprietors as soon as the lands were purchased of the Natives. The early settlement in York countycommenced in quarrels, and the effects of those quarrels have descended unto our days..."8.
    "The practice of granting licenses to settle on land not yet purchased from the Indians created a new category of land. The licenses not only kept track of settlers who went beyond the treaty line, but also carried the promise that warrants would be granted as soon as the land was purchased from the Indians."
    These licenses are found under the title Blunston Licenses, A Record of Licenses Granted to Sundry Persons to Settle & Take Up Land on the West Side of Susquehanna River" , {series #17.319} [Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Bureau of Archives and History Pennsylvania State Archives RG-17  RECORDS OF THE LAND OFFICE].
    At that site, it states:

    To account for the settlement they knew was occuring, and to profit from its occurence in regions not related to Springettsbury, the Penn Proprietor's issued Blunstone Licenses.


    "Arranged chronologically by date of license. Indexed internally, alphabetically by surname of licensee.

    "A loose register of licenses granted in lieu of warrants to settlers in Springettsbury Manor in present day York County and along the Conodoguinet Creek in present day Cumberland County and a list of licenses to settle granted to other "adventurers." This series is filed in folder 12 within the series Proprietary Papers, [ca. 1682-1788] {17.297}. The practice of granting licenses to settle on land not yet purchased from the Indians created a new category of land. The licenses not only kept track of settlers who went beyond the treaty line, but also carried the promise that warrants would be granted as soon as the land was purchased from the Indians. As early as 1718, James Logan had informally granted permission to a group of Scots-Irish immigrants to settle in West Conestoga Township in what was then Chester County and Deputy Governor William Keith had also secretly given permission for a group of Germans from Schoharie, New York to settle in the Tulpehocken Valley of the present day Berks County in 1723. Despite such early informal arrangements, the Blunston Licenses were the first official licenses authorized by Thomas Penn in 1736 for land that lay west of the Susquehanna River. [see same for SPANGLER] To protect proprietary interests in the border dispute with Maryland, he granted Samuel Blunston a commission to issue "licenses to settle" to German squatters and other "adventurers"  in this region and these resemble warrants and contain much of the same type of information. Licenses or certificates were also granted to traders who assisted in military occupation of the frontier and in securing the western fur trade. Examples of these can be found in the gentlemen's tract applications in the East Side Applications Register, 1765-1769 {series #17.37}. Information given is the date of the license, the name of the settler, the acreage licensed, and the location of the tract.

    "In all cases where settlement occurred by license, regular warrants could not be granted until the land had been purchased from the Indians. To locate a warrant issued on the basis of a license or certificate, consult the warrant register of the county with jurisdiction at the time. For example, most of the earliest warrants issued on the Blunston licenses will be found in the Lancaster County warrant register because Lancaster County had jurisdiction west of the Susquehanna River until York County was erected in 1749 and Cumberland County in 1750."
    Blunston Licenses, A Record of Licenses Granted to Sundry Persons to Settle & Take Up Land on the West Side of Susquehanna River" , {series #17.319} [Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Bureau of Archives and History Pennsylvania State Archives RG-17  RECORDS OF THE LAND OFFICE].

    "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."9

     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

    Sources for this Page
    1.  York County History Pages of York County Webpages
    2. York Daily Record 1750-1775
    3. Armstrong County Penn. Genealogy Project . Chapter 14 Manor Part 1  of the Manor Township pages. Sites: Source: Page(s) 310-345, History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania by Robert Walker Smith, Esq. Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883. Transcribed January 1999 by Donna Mohney for the Armstrong County Smith Project. Published 1998 by the Armstrong County Pennsylvania Genealogy Project.

    4. York County History Pages of York County Webpages

    5. Book Abstract  presented in the  Pennsylvania Original Land Records Series for York County Pa webpage . Abstract involves "The Manor of Springettsbury, York County, Pa  It's History and Early Settlers" , York County Original Land Record Servies, Volume 6, Neal Otto Hively, 1993, 2nd Pringint 1997;; ISSN 1066-0100 (Series); ISBN 0-9638435-0-8, 272 pages. This book is available for sale also at Blairs' Book Service where Detail on the Volume Available

    6. Pennsylvania Colonial Land Policy  Webpage  from Pennsylvania Original Land Records Series for York County, Pa  Website
     

    7. Edward W. Spangler. The Annals of the Families of Caspar, Henry, Baltzer and George Spengler. York, Pennsylvania: The York Daily Publishing Co., 1896., p 119.

    8. History of York County from its erection to the present time; [1729-1834] By W. C. Carter & A. J. Glossbrenner.
    New edition; with Additions Edited by A. Monroe Aurand, Jr. Privately Printed: The Aurand Press: Harrisburg, Pa. 1930; page 3-9 ìManor of Springettsburyî
     

    9. See PENNSYLVANIA ORIGINAL LAND RECORDS SERIESand DISPUTE WITH THE COLONY OF MARYLANDPENNSYLVANIA COLONIAL LAND POLICY entry

    10. From:Hopkins, Leroy. ìBlack Eldorado on the Susquehanna: The Emergence of Black Columbia, 1726-1861î, Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Vol 89, pp 110-132  Transcription available at Link

    11. Book Synopsis by Purveyor Blair's Book Service of :
    The Manor of Springettsbury, York Couny, Pennsylvania: It's History and Early Settlers, York County Original Land Records. (Volume 6), 272
    pages, 1993. ISSN 1066 - 0100; ISBN0-9638435-0-8 First Printing 1993, Second Printing 1997. Survey listings #S-1 to S-391.

    12. DISPUTE WITH THE COLONY OF MARYLAND entry at Page provided from  PENNSYLVANIA ORIGINAL LAND RECORDS SERIES
     

    13. Edward W. Spangler. The Annals of the Families of Caspar, Henry, Baltzer and George Spengler. York, Pennsylvania: The York Daily Publishing Co., 1896.
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    page 8:
    ìnot long after the survey, settlements were made under Pennsylvania rights: but as the lands were not fully puchased of the Indians until 1736, licensees to settle and take them up were in the mean time granted by Samuel Bluntson, who had been commissioned by the proprietaries, and in some casses too by Thomas Penn himself."8 page8
     
     

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