His brother Jonas and he, prior to 1738, were located by their father on 719 acres of land near the Little Conewago Creek, on the "Conococheague Road," afterwards in Paradise (now Jackson) Township, seven miles west of York, subquently known as the Spangler Valley. NATURALIZATION: 1762, I Edward Shippen, Prothonotary of the Supream Court of the Province of Pennsylvania, DO hereby certify, That at a Supream Court held at Philadelphia, for the said Province of Pennsylvania, the Twenty Fourth Day of September in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Two, Before William Allen and William Coleman, Esquires, Judges of the sai Court, between the Hours of Nine and Twelve of the Clock in the Forenoon of the same day, Rudolph Spengler, of Paradise in the County of York, being a Foreigner, and having inhabited and resided for the Space of Seven Years in His Majesty's Colonies in America, and not have been absent out of some of the said Colonies for a longer Time than Two Months at any one Time during the said Seven Years. And the said Rudolph Spengler having produced to the said Court, a Certificate, of his having taken the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper with Three Months before the said Court, took and subscribed the Oaths, and did make and repeat the Declaration (appointed by an Act, made in the First Year of the Reign of King GEORGE the First) according to the Directions of an Act of Parliament, made in the Thirteenth Year of His late Majesty King GEORGE the Second, intituled, An Act for naturalizing such foreign Protestants, and others, therein mentioned, as are settled in any of Majesty's Colonies in America; and thereupon was admitted to be His Majesty's natural born Subject of the Kingdom of Great-Britain, pursuant to the Direction and Intent of the said Act of Parliament. In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supream Court, the 24th Day of September in the Year first above mentioned. Edw. Shippen BURIED: Pigeon Hill Churchyard.
Rudolph was born at
Weyler, Heidelberg, Baden, Germany, on 1 March 1721. He was the son of
Hans Kaspar Spengler and
Judith Ziegler. He married
Barbara (?). Rudolph Spengler was naturalized on 24 September 1762 at
Pennsylvania; He was naturalized September 24, 1762. Rudolph died circa 1782 at
York Co., Pennsylvania. His body was interred circa 1782 at
Paradise Twp., York Co., Pennsylvania, at Pigeon Hill Cemetery.