Baltzer Spangler one of the founders of York Pennsylvania

Baltzer Spengler helping Thomas Cookson  (Surveyor for the Penns)   survey land for  York Town 1741

Baltzer was one of the first settlers and founders of York.  The Spenglers came to America, citizens of Weiler, Sinsheim, Germany.  Baltzer immigrating in 1732.  The Spenglers were like many other of these early Germans, Lutheran and Reformed.  In 1739 Baltzer and his neighbor Ulrick Wisler traveled from York to Philadelphia to ask William Penn's son Thomas for permission to establish a town at the intersection of the Monoacy Road and the Cordorus. The following  fall Thomas Cookson, surveyor for the Penns came to Baltzer Spengler's house with authorization  from the Proprietor to proceed with laying out a town.  In return for assisting Cookson in his labor Spengler and Wisler had their choice of lots.   Wisler's lot was on High Street adjoining the creek, where the reconstructed Colonial Court House now stands.  Spengler's lot was on the corner of the Square, which is known on the General Plan of the town by number 70.  The northwest quadrant.  The first election in York Town, 1749 was held in this house, later the Black Horse Inn, operated by Spengler and his son Baltzer Jr.   Baltzer Sr was one of the earliest distillers in the area.  In 1741 Martin Eichelberger, a German innkeeper and Reformed church member, bought Lot no. 120 on which he built the Golden Plough Tavern used by farmers and travelers.

At one time it looks like  the Black Horse Tavern was for sale. ad in the York Newspaper.  This was for sale by Samuel Spangler.

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