Katherine Springer

Jacob Springer

Ratteleen Ellen Springer

Anna Fast

George Springer

Charles Carl Springer

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Henry Springer

George Springer

Molly Springer

Sarah or Sally Springer

Peter Springer

Barbara Springer

James Jacob Springer

Karell , Carl "Charles" Christophersson Springer

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- I have overcome it all. When I had faithfully served out my time I heard, accidentally, that there were Swedes at Del aware River, in Pensellvenia, which formerly under the Swedish rule, was called Nya Swerige [ New Sweden], and so, as I now will tell you, I made that difficult journey of about four hund red miles. And when I got there I beheld the Old Swedes, and they received me very kindly. When I had been here about a year and a half, then it pleased God to send and vouchsafe m e a most virtuous wife, by name Maria Hendrichsdotter, whom I married on 27 December 1685 an d with whom it has pleased God to grant me three children, all three of them daughters, and s he is even now with the fourth child. May God Allmighty give her a good delivery

As for my activities, I am a reader here in one Swedish congregation, and serve it, because n ow we have no pastors in this land, for they are all dead. I serve the congregation in the ch urch with the reading and expounding of God's Word, for I have a Swedish postilla [book of fa mily sermons], and the singing of hymns. It is now upon the fourth year that I have served th e congregation in this way. Moreover, I have two plantations that I have bought, and on one of them I live, and plough an d plant sowing all kinds of seed during the year. I also have a livestock for the needs of m y household, and so live, thank God, that I and mine suffer no want. My highly esteemed Mother, dear, let also hear of you and my dear brothers, whether they ar e living, and how they fare. God has known my sadness at not being able to hear anything fro m you. That would make me truly glad of heart. My fondest longing has been that I might be pe rmitted. before I die, to hear of your well-being. We here in this land now have a godly enterprise, we who are Swedes. We have received a lette r in our country here concerning our king in Sweden, that he will, upon our writing and repre sentation, send us pastors and Swedish books, of which we have a great lack. They have no on e among them to write for them but me, I have done it diligently. I ask also, my beloved, dear Mother, that it may please you send me a Bible, here, and two ma nuals and hymnals, for I have no one of my own. And if you please, you could send them here t o me thus, that is, first, send by some dear person to Gothenburg, to His Majesty's faithfu l servant and postmaster, John Thelin, by name, who will surely send them to me by messenge r at the first opportunity. Dear Mother, I am wholly at a loss for books. I send greetings to my dear brothers, and my dear brother Lorentz Springer [half-brother] an d his wife and children. Greet all good friends, relatives, and family, and all who know me a nd my name. My dear wife and children send all of you their greetings. I remain always your ever most obedient son, unto death. Dated at Pensellvenia in Delaware River the 1 June 1693 /s/ Karell Christoffeson Springer Letter . More Notes: Faella/McKiel Family Tree Entries: 10947 Updated: 2014-10-31 16:39:02 UTC (Fri) Contact: Katherine Faella http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=kfaella1&id=I2287 Name: Carl Springer Year: 1693 Place: Pennsylvania Source Publication Code: 40 Primary Immigrant: Springer, Carl Annotation: Copy of a letter from Pennsylvania along the Delaware River, written by Carl Chri stopherson Springer to Postmaster John Thelin, "Gotheberg," Sweden, May 31, 1693, which list s persons living in New Sweden in 1693. Also found in no. 0041, Acrelius. And see Source Bibliography: ACRELIUS, ISRAEL. A History of New Sweden, or The Settlements on the Riv er Delaware. Translated from the Swedish by William M. Reynolds. (Memoirs of the Historical S ociety of Delaware, 11.) Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1874, pp. 189-193 . Reprinted by Arno Press, New York, 1972. Page: 192 . Carl Springer: was an American settler, and that the Springer genealogists were quite correc t in assigning him as a son to CHRISTOPHER OF SWEDEN. He is called usually Carl Christopher S pringer, and as such some times appears in the Church records of Wilmington, Delaware. Occasi onally he is called Carl Christopherson Springer, which, in the writer’s opinion, is his prop er name, as denoting his paternity in accordance with the Swedish custom then prevailing an d the present time. Carl Springer was leading citizen of Wilmington and was very active in ch urch affairs., holding the office of churchwarden. His high social status is shown by the tit le of “MR.” which is frequently prefixed to his name. The evidence that he was a son of Chris topher Springer of Sweden is circumstantial, but in the writer’s opinion, it is strongly indi cative of his parentage. The probate records of 1669, quoted above, show that the Inspector C hristopher Springer had a son Carl, who was then “about” eleven years old. He was born, there fore, about 1658, In the year 1738 the death of Carl Springer of Wilmington was thus recorded : “Carl Christopher Springer, died May 26, and was buried May 28, 80 Years old” Thus the Amer ican Carl was shown as having been born in 1658. The fact that he was some times called Car l Christopherson Springer is the third link in the chain that connects him with the Swedish f amily.” From Jessie Evelyn Springer book Charles Springer of Cranehook-on-the-Delaware - His descenda nts and Allied Families? "He was Charles, or in Swedish, Karl Christophers- son Springer, of Stockholm, Sweden. His fa ther, Christopher Springer, was an official at the Swedish court, and in addition to other du ties in financial lines, he drew a salary as a musician. He was a naturalized Swede, althoug h he was originally German. He was married three times, first to Alma Dorothea Jacobie, by wh om he had a son, Lorentz; second to Henrietta Stulcenrauch, by whom he had a daughter, Christ ina, who lived in Riga, now in the Russian zone. The third wife was Beata Salina, the eldes t daughter of Dr. Balzar Salinus, court physician to King Carl X. The family home was opposit e the cast gate of the Sancta Clara Lutheran Church, which the family at- tended. Christophe r bought this property in 1637, and Lorentz, the eldest son, lived there until his death, an d is buried in Sancta Clara churchyard. Concerning Charles as a child and school boy in Stockholm, history is silent, but there are r ecords that show that for his higher education, he was sent first to Riga, where he may hav e lived with his half- sister, Christina. By the time he was eighteen, ar- rangements had bee n made for him to go to Johan Leyonberg, Sweden's minister in London, and to live in Leyonber g's home. What happened there is told in a letter to his mother, dated June 1, 1693, from "Pe nnsellvania on the Delaware River". "When I was in London, and was of a mind to journey home to Sweden. . . having learned the En glish speech and writing and reading. . . . . I was kidnapped and against my will taken on bo ard an English ship, carried to Virginia, and sold off like a farm animal . . . . and held i n very slavery for five years together. "My work was unspeakable. In the summer it was extra ordinary hot during the day, and my wor k was mostly in the winter, clearing land and cutting down the forest and making it ready fo r planting To- bacco and Indian grain (corn) in the sum- mer. I had a very hard master. But n ow - to God be praise, honor, and glory

- I have overcome it all." "When I had faithfully served out my time I heard, accidentally, that there were Swedes at De laware River, in Pennsellvania . . . . and . . . . I made that difficult jour- ney of about f our hundred miles. And when I got there I beheld the Old Swedes, and they received me very ki ndly." The year of his kidnapping was 1678, and allowing five years of servitude, the approximate ye ar when he reached the colony on the Delaware was 1683 or 1684, but the date is narrowed by h is statement in the same letter that when he had been there about a year and a half, he had m arried Maria Hindrichdotter (Hen- drickson) on December 27, 1685. His time may have been up t o late in 1683; and at that period there were no roads through the forests, only foot trails , which doubtless made the journey of four hundred miles an arduous one. He says further that he had bought two planta- tions, and he had crops and livestock which pr ovided him and his family - three little girls at the time he wrote, with a fourth child on t he way - with a good living; and that he was the reader in the Swedish congregation, which ha d no pastor. He said he read from the Scrip- tures, and from a book of Swedish sermons, wit h prayer and the singing of hymns. He asked his mother to send a Bible, and two hymnals and m anuals. He added that 1693 was the fourth year he had so served the congregation. He signed this letter, "Karell Christophersson Springer", and this may have given rise to th e mis-taken use of Christoper as a middle name for him, which seem to be wholly unjustified . In all the many papers he signed for the church, and all personal legal papers, he signed h imself Charles or Carl Springer, never using "Christopher". For more information from "Charles Springer of Cranehook-on-the-Delaware His descendants an d Allied Families" by JESSIE EVELYN SPRINGER. “The 1693 Census of the Swedes on the Delaware 1638-1693” by Peter Stebbins Craig The Springe r Family #118. Charles Springer (Red Clay Creek, Christiana hundred, 200 acres): Carl or Charles Sprin ger was born in Stockholm in 1658, the son of Christopher Springer and his third wife, Beat a Salina. His father died in 1669 after forty years of service for the Swedish government; hi s mother, the royal housekeeper for the dowager queen Hedvig Eleonora (widow of King Charle s X) at Gripsholm Castle, was buried 17 December 1693 at the Gripsholm church in Mariefred. A s a young man, Charles Springer had been sent abroad to study, first to Riga, Latvia ( the n a province of Sweden), and later to London to learn English and mathematics. He then disapp eared. By a letter to his mother, dated 1 June 1693,Charles explained his fate: About to retu rn home, he was kidnapped and carried aboard an English vessel to Virginia,”where I was sol d like a farm animal” and held in ‘very slavery” for five years. Having served his time, he w ent 400 miles to join the Swedes on the Delaware. After being there a year and a half, he mar ried Maria Hendricksdotter, 27 Dec 1685. At the time of the letter, they had three daughter s and were expecting a fourth child. Springer first lived in Gloucester County at “New Stockholm” a tract claimed by the Swedes b y purchase from the Indians but owned by Andrew Robeson Sr. Here, John Anderson Cock, Springe r’s future brother-in-law, was operating a farm in 1684. In the following year, Springer m’ d Maria, the daughter of Hendreick Jacobson. The Springer remained a resident of Gloucester C ounty through at least 1690. Charles and Maria Hendricksdotter Springer in 1693 was 200 acres, part of “Oak Hill” an 800 a cres tract east of Red Clay Creek, which had been granted by William Penn to Nils Larsson Fri end in exchange for land Penn wanted in Bucks County for his Pennsbury Estate. Charles Springer first wife was buried 15 March 1727. Three months later, he married Annika , daughter of Johan and Brita Gustafsson and widow of both Matthias Martensson and Jonas Walr aven. Charles Springer died of a stoke on 26 May 1738 while crossing the Delaware on his retu rn from Gloucester County Court, where he proved a deed from Andrew Robeson SR to Marten Mart ensson SR and John Archer that he had witnessed 9 May 1685

Mary Springer

Beata Jacobine Baltzarsdotter Salina , Hendricksdotter , Hendrickson

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Carl or Charles Christopher Springer

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Jacob Springer

Thelma E Paramore

Margareta Robinson