General Notes

ON MANY RECORDS HIS NAME SHOWS UP SPELLED QUITE A FEW DIFFERENT WAYS SUCH AS BALSHAR, BALTHASAR, BALTZER BALTSHAR ETC    .... JOHN CASPER STOEVER BAPTIZED HIm
It has been determined that Baltzer's date of birth was January 1, 1741.
He was baptized in the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church by Johan
Casper Stoever on April 20, 1741; sponsors: Johannes Balthaer and wife
and Johannes Balthasar Boeshasr and wife Anna. Baltzer probably married
Elizabeth Boeshaar, daughter of Balthasar (Baltzer) and Johanna Dorothea
(Weider) Boeshaar of Earltown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

In the Index to the 1770 Tax Records, Vol. 5 by Gary T. Hawbaker and
Clyde L. Graff, Balsar Kopenhever Yr. 1770 and 1770 Earl Comments:
Inmate (means he was a renter) Shoomacker RTN/James Kimer (maybe his
landlord). He is listed as an inmate (married, not owning land but
having a trade) in the 1771 & 1772 tax lists for Earl Township. In 1779
and thereafter, he is listed in Shirley Township, Huntingdon County,
Pennsylvania tax lists. In 1779 Baltzer had 40 acres, 2 horses and 3
cattle; 1783 he had 100 acres, 3 horses, 3 cattle and 3 sheep; 1790 he
had 100 acres, 2 horses, 2 cattle, 6 sons, under sixteen, and 1 daughter
and wife Elizabeth. In 1797, Baltzer was a supervisor (supervisor over
roads or poor, etc) in Shirley Township. Baltzer and family are
enumerated on the 1800 Census but only Elizabeth and family are shown on
the 1810 Census. Baltzer probably died in 1804 for he does not appear in
the tax list for 1805. Little more is known about their lives.

Baltzer Copenhaver is the direct ancestor of the Northern West Virginia
Copenhavers. His children scattered to various parts of the East.
Several stayed in Pennsylvania. At least one migrated to present day
Northern West Virginia, among them, Isaac, the progenator of Copenhavers
in that part of West Virginia.