AREA HISTORY:  The Township of Springfield, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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THE TOWNSHIP OF SPRINGFIELD – Page 715

For ninety years this township formed a part of Shrewsbury.  The names of its 
taxable inhabitants in 1783 will be found in the history of that township.  A 
petition asking for a division of Shrewsbury was presented in 1834 to the court, 
presided over by Judge Walter Franklin and his associates, George Barnitz and 
John L. Hinkle, stating that “the township of Shrewsbury is eighteen miles long, 
and on this account many of the inhabitants are too far from the place of 
transacting the common township business.”  The court appointed George Hoke, 
Henry Leib and John Eyster commissioners, who selected George M. Henry surveyor, 
and the division line was run November 24, 1834.  The report of said 
commissioners recommending the erection of this township, which was named by 
them, Springfield, was confirmed by the court, April 9, 1835.