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Descendants of Caspar Spohn

Generation No. 1

1. CASPAR² SPOHN (??SPOHN¹) was born February 04, 1758, and died November 23, 1841 in Oley Township, Berks County PA. He married EVA ELISABETHA CATHARINA FRIEDRICK October 21, 1787 in Berks County PA. She was born Abt. 1770 in Berks County, PA, and died Aft. 1850 in Berks Co. Pa.

Notes for CASPAR SPOHN:
Notes on possible Hessian Service of Casper Spohn/Kasper Spahn from the Amrev-Hessian mailing list on Rootsweb:

Kaspar Spahn was a wagon attendant with the Hesse-Hanau Artillery.
His commander the famous Capt. Paeusch/Pausch, the one who wrote a
Journal which was translated by William L. Stone, and reprinted by
The New York Times and Arno Press in 1971 (probably out of print)

HETRINA VI, page 462/63:
" SPAHN, Kaspar, born 1753/54 at Breitenbach D6490, on Muster Roll in
Apr.1776, Wagonmaster, listed as prisoner, and now it gets a little
confusing, Hetrina lists him first time as a prisoner in Sep.1781,
but he may have been a prisoner since Saratoga in
Oct.1777, perhaps even earlier at Bennington in August 1777. But
Hetrina does not say so. Next he is listed as prisoner in Aug.1782,
as a deserter in Sep.1782, in fact there is a mentioning in Clifford
Neil Smith's Monograph #5 (Hanau), that on Sep.29.1782 he entered
American Service (perhaps meaning he joined some Continental unit),
but Hetrina has him in Sep.1782 still as a prisoner, who sold himself,
in other words, indentured himself. In the Monograph is another note,
that Kaspar Spahn, the wagon attendant remained in Virginia after
the 12.May 1783, meaning, he did not go home with the other prisoners."

"Caspir Spon" shows up on the 1786 Oley Twp. Tax record as a "single freeman". He doesn't appear before this on the Oley tax records, and this is the only time he shows up in Oley, as far as I can tell. I then checked the Earl Twp., Records from 1787 onward, and Caspar first appears in:

1789 Earl Twp., as "Caspar Span" with 35 acres of deedland, 1 cow, and occupation given as wheelright. There are gaps in the tax records for Earl Twp., so they are not available for every year.

1791 Earl Twp. is the next year, he is listed as "Kaspar Spon, 17 or 19 acres deed land, 2 cows, and occupation not listed,

1792 Earl Twp., "Caspar Spon", 19 acres deed land, 2 cows, occupation "Wilrith"

1794 Earl Twp., "Caspar Spon", 19 acres deed land, 2 head cattle, occupation Wheelright.

1795 Earl Twp., "Caspar Spon", 19 acres deed land, 2 cows, wheelright

1799 Earl Twp., "Caspar Spoone" 19 acres deed land, 2 cows, wheelwright.

Caspar is also on 1801 Earl Twp., Tax list.

More About CASPAR SPOHN:
Census: 1800 Earl Twp., Berks Co. PA, 2 males under 20, 1 male 10-16, 1 male 16-25, 1 male over 45, 1 female under 10, 1 female 10-16, 1 female 26-45
Census 1: 1790 Oley Twp., Berks Co .PA, 1 male above 16 years, 1 male below 16 years, and 2 females
Nationality: According to Morton L. Montgomery's" History of Berks Co." Casper Spohn was a Hessian soldier who remained in Berks Co. after the Revolution."
Occupation: According to Oley and Earl Twp. Berks Co. PA Tax lists, was a wheelwright

More About EVA ELISABETHA CATHARINA FRIEDRICK:
Census: Eve Spohn age 80 living with Daniel and Catharine Brumbach at house # 60, 1850 Earl twp., Berks Co. PA

Children of CASPAR SPOHN and EVA FRIEDRICK are:

	i.		?³ SPOHN, b. Bet. 1787 - 1790.
	ii.		JOHANNES SPOHN, b. June 17, 1788; d. Aft. 1807.

More About JOHANNES SPOHN:
Baptism: July 29, 1788, Oley Reformed Church, sponsors Goreg Hill and Elizabetha Hill

2.	iii.	HENRICH SPOHN, b. September 24, 1789, Berks County, PA; d. September 30, 1863, Oley Twp., Berks Co. PA.
3.	iv.	CATHARINA SPOHN, b. April 12, 1791, Berks Co. Pa; d. May 09, 1877, Berks Co. Pa.
4.	v.	JACOB SPOHN, b. August 23, 1793, Berks County, PA; d. Aft. 1850, Berks County, PA.
	vi.	BARBARA SPOHN, b. 1796.

More About BARBARA SPOHN:
Baptism: April 24, 1796, Oley Reform Church, sponsors Leonhard Schwebele and wife Barbara.

5.	vii.	ELIZABETH SPOHN, b. November 08, 1797, Berks Co. Pa; d. April 28, 1877, Berks Co. Pa.
6.	viii.	MARGARETHA REBECCA SPOHN, b. January 1801, Berks Co. Pa; d. August 22, 1884, Berks Co. Pa.
7.	ix.	JOHANN GEORG SPOHN, b. August 20, 1803, Earl Township, Berks County PA; d. Aft. 1870.
8.	x.	FRIEDRICH SPOHN, b. September 14, 1805.
	xi.	SARAH SPOHN, b. November 24, 1807; m. ?, Aft. 1828.

More About SARAH SPOHN:
Baptism: April 10, 1808, Oley Reform Church, sponsors Catharina Friedrich

xii.

SAMUEL SPOHN, b. May 16, 1810.

More About SAMUEL SPOHN:
Baptism: August 19, 1810, Oley Reform Church, sponsors are the parents.

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