[Ancestor] Springer

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1 M Dennis Springer ^{1 2}

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         Spouse: Ann Prickett (      -      ) 3
           Marr: 1736 - Burlington, Burlington Co, NJ 1

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Springer

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The ancestors of this family came to America from Sweden, but the original stock was remotely German. The name "Springer" was given, in sport, by an emperor of Germany, in the eleventh century, to a relation of his, in consequence of an adventurous leap by the latter into the river Saale from the castle of Geibichenstein, where he had been imprisoned for an alleged crime. This original Springer was pardoned by the emperor, and his estates and powers also increased.

The Springers are numerous in all countries. They trace their ancestry to Louis II, Landgrave of Thuringia, born 1042, died 1128, who founded Freiburg on the Unstrut and Nuremberg on the Saale in 1060; built Wartburg in 1067 and Eisenbach in 1070, and founded the monastery of Reinhardtsbrun in 1099 and died there. He was given the name of "The Springer" in 1089, and the Springers are of German descent.

1 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 690.

2 John M. Gresham, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: John M. Gresham & Co., 1889), Pg 228.

3 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 680.