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Notes for Henry Baltzly and Catherine Snider

1782 Henry [Baltzly], son of Henry and Christine Palseli (Baltzly), was born on July 1. Henry was baptized on September 23, with sponsors, grandparents, Frederick and Marie Elizabeth Wolff, at the Abbotstown Reformed Church. [1] [2]

1802 Henry Balsley [father of this Henry] was taxed for 200 acres in Menallen Twp, Adams County. [3] Henry Balsley was taxed as a single man. He had not been listed before. Perhaps he had recently turned age 21. [4]

1807 Margretha, daughter of Henry and Catherine Baltzly [Balzli] was born on September 6. She was baptized on October 4, with sponsor H. Steinauer, at the Lutheran and Reformed Congregations, Arendtsville, Adams County, Pennsylvania. [5] [6]

1811 Henry Balsley was taxed for 230 acres in Menallen Twp, Adams County. Until this year, Widow Baltzzley had been taxed. [7]

1812 Henry Baltzley was in Captain Zollinger's Company, York County, Pennsylvania. [8]

1814 Henry Baltzly [Balsley], farmer, was listed on the septennial census for Antrim Twp, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. [9]

1821 Henry Balsley, farmer, was listed on the septennial census for Antrim Twp, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. [10]

1823 Letters of administration were issued for the estate of Henry Balsley on November 12 to Simon Rupely. Sureties were with John Tole and Jacob Wonderlich. [11]


Footnotes:

[1] F. Edward Wright, Adams County Church Records of the 18th Century (2000), 91, [GoogleBooks].

[2] Willis Wolf Eisenhart, A History of Abbottstown (1953), 116.

[3] Adams County, Pennsylvania Tax List, [FamilySearchImage].

[4] Adams County, Pennsylvania Tax List, [FamilySearchImage].

[5] Adams County, Pennsylvania, 1785-1874: Lutheran and Reformed Congregations, citing FHL film 20702, [AncestryRecords].

[6] Trinity Lutheran Church (Arendtsville, Pennsylvania), Church records, 1786-1921 [Arendtsville Church], image 31, [FamilySearchImage].

[7] Adams County, Pennsylvania Tax List, [FamilySearchImage].

[8] Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Pennsylvania Archives, Sixth Series, Volume 2 (Muster Rolls Washington) (1906), 707, left column, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].

[9] Pennsylvania, Septennial Census, 1779-1863, 1814, Antrim Twp, Franklin County, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[10] Pennsylvania, Septennial Census, 1779-1863, 1821, Antrim Twp, Franklin County, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[11] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Franklin, Will C-677, [FamilySearchImage].