Display Patriot - P-345910 - Johann Andreas SPRING
Johann Andreas SPRING
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P-345910
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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Birth: 11 Apr 1750 Trappe / Montgomery / PA Death: 24 Apr 1825 Lovettsville / Loudoun / VA
Qualifying Service Description:
Paid Supply Tax in Virginia
Additional References:
Loudoun County Personal Property Tax List, First Battalion: 1783A, pg 38
Spouse: Anna Maria Steinbrenner Children: Jacob; Elizabeth; Anna Maria Christina; Casper; Andreas; Michael; John; Maria Juliana; Joseph; David;
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Johann Andreas Spring was the son of Johann Casper (1724–1755) and Anna Susanna (Habicht) Spring (1729-1764), who were married at Schwabisch Hall, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, on 12 April 1751.1
Shortly after being married, they emigrated to America, arriving in Philadelphia in 1751 when Johann Casper was 26 and Anna was 23. Andreas was born the next year, in 1752, and was one of four known children of Johann Casper and Anna Spring.
The father, Johann, died on 16 November 1755 in Berks County, Pennsylvania. He was killed by Native American warriors during the French-Indian War.
Anna was remarried to Jacob Schloetzer (Slater) on 7 March 1756 at Trappe, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. They had at least six children together. The family migrated to Loudoun County, Virginia, sometime in the 1760s, bringing their children with them, including Andreas.
Andreas married Anna Maria Steinbrenner (1764-1825) and they had at least seven children:
Jacob was born in 1779.
Elisabeth was born in 1783 and married [?] Frey.
Anna Maria Christina was born in 1786 and married [?] Fawley.
Casper was born in 1788.
Andreas was born in 1790.
Michael was born in 1793.
John was born in 1795.
Maria Juliana was born in 1796.
Joseph was born in 1801.
David was born in 1803.
Elizabeth was born in 1803 and married [?] Rambo.2
Andreas Spring paid the Supply Tax in 1783 in Loudoun County, Virginia.3
Andreas Spring was one of 25 signers of the 1786 church constitution for the New Jerusalem Lutheran Church.4 He is listed on the communicant rolls in 1784 (the first year in which records were kept), 1787-1789, 1791-1795, and later years.5
Both Andreas and Anna Maria died in 1825 and are buried at the New Jerusalem Lutheran Cemetery. Neither grave has an existing headstone.
The NJLC burial register lists: Andreas Spring’s wife, Jan. 16, 1825, [age] 65 years, 11 months less 2 days; and Andreas Spring, April 24, 1825, [age] 75 years, 1 week, 6 days.6
Sources:
The family background is taken from both the Spring and Slater Family Files, Lovettsville Historical Society, Lovettsville, Virginia.
Find-a-Grave, “Andreas Spring,” ID #15399835, lists six children as of 13 February 2023; a seventh, Elisabeth, is listed in the baptism records of New Jerusalem’s mother church, Evangelical Lutheran in Frederick Maryland, for 5 October 1783; and an eighth, Caspar, is listed in New Jerusalem Lutheran Church Register, Vol. 1 “Baptisms,” 4 June 1788. Others are listed in a Spring Family History (author unknown) ‘Descendants of Andreas Spring, Sr.”
Patricia B. Duncan, Loudoun County, Virginia Personal Property Tax Lists (Westminster, Maryland: Willow Bend Books, 2004), 1783A, p. 37.
Kretsinger, Rev. Michael, “A People of God in Mission,” Vol. II (Lovettsville, Virginia: New Jerusalem Lutheran Church, 1990), p. 5.
New Jerusalem Lutheran Church Register, Vol. 1, “Communicanten” [in German].
New Jerusalem Lutheran Church Register, “Burials,” 1825.
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