NINTH GENERATION

256. Hans Hendrich (Plyler) Bleiler(1) was born in 1722 in Germany. He died in 1808 in Lancaster District, South Carolina. Hans Hendrich Bleiler is the son of Casper Bleiler from whom Elizabeth Plyler descended and thereby being our common ancestor as well. Hans became John and Hendrich became Henry. Bleiler became Pliler at first and then the most common spelling of Plyler was used. The Plyler family used both spellings even during the 1850's as Henry Plyler used the spelling of Pliler at that time in the 1850 Census in Chesterfield County, South
Carolina. His will, however, had the spelling of Plyler. Hans Hendrich Bleiler is listed in Pennsylvania records as Henry Bleiler and in North Carolina he was Henry Pliler.

Old church records can reveal quite a lot of information about our ancestors. The marriage of Hendrich Bleiler and Maria Christina Reinhart is recorded as being on March 30, 1752 in Early Marriage Records 1731-1850 of Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Pa., volume No. 2, page 3a. Translated records for the First Reformed Church of Lancaster, Pa. show that John Henry and Maria' son, Frederick, was born July 12, 1753
and christened on July 22, 1753. John Henry Bleiler and his wife Maria very likely went to North Carolina very shortly after the birth of Frederick as there are no more records for the Plylers in that area.

The Plyler clan's first recorded land deed in the Carolinas was in Macklenburg County, North Carolina. In 1764, a land deed shows that Henry and Maria Pliler settled on Adams Creek near what is now Mt. Pleasant, North Carolina and in what is now a part of Cabarrus County. Mt. Pleasant, NC is Northeast of Charlotte., NC. The Germans usually had a close knit family and lived together in the same area as a clan. This area around Mt. Pleasant, NC was strictly a German settlement. The nearest church in the area was St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church which was organized in 1745 and attended by our Pliler ancestors.

Henry Plyler, 1722-1808 evidently had a 100 acre plantation in Lancaster District, South Carolina at the time of his death in 1808 as there was a land deed dated at that date. The deed is retyped here as it was originally worded. This deed is important as it lists the children of Henry Plyler.

The Legatue of Henry Plyler to
Coonrod Plyler Deed

South Carolina
Lancaster District Know all men by these present that we Subscribers: Henry Plyler, Jacob Plyler, Paul Plyler, Mary Mosman, Barbara Hovis, Elizabeth Plyler,
Legatees of the Estate of Henry Plyler, deceased, has this day bargained, sold, released, confirmed, and made over and by these presents doth bargain, sell, release, and confirm and make over unto Coonrod Plyler of State and District aforesaid, a certain plantation or tract of land lying in said district. The said land being the plantation that Henry Plyler, deseast and left to his lawful heirs- and we the Subscribers are the same, and the said Coonrod Plyler the other. This track being all his real Estate being _ ? by mutual consent of us all to the highest bidder with the rest of his property and Coonrod Plyler being
the high bidder and it was twenty-two dollars and for this consideration we the ubscribers with Coonrods shear deducted out do release confirm unto him, the said Coonrod all that
plantation one hundred acres more or less in the said Bound's surveyed for William Woods by Henry Massey and conveyed the 21st day of September, 1786.

Beginning at a white oak on a branch of Lynches creek and running NL 50, W 31 62 to another white oak, thence SL? 5, W 31-62 to a stake and thence S 45, E 31-62 to the beginning corner to have and to hold unto him the said, Coonrod Plyler, his heirs and Creuten? or offsprings forever all the singular. The land and premes before mentioned for him to enjoy and peaceably posess free and clear from all manner of encumbances
of our selves of heirs or any other person or persons encumbering him or said Land or any sort of it, and we for our parts doth warrant and forever defend the Land, premises to him the said Coonrod from the claim of any person or likewise our selves and heirs lay any claim to it or any part of it the same. Given up all our claimunto him the said Coonrod Plyler, his and assigners forever. Witness where unto we have set our hand and seals this day of ____ in the year of our Lord 1808 and in the 33 year of independence of the United States of America.

Sign, Sealed and delivered in the presents of

his
Test Henry X Plyler Seal
Mark
Jacob Plyler
Jacob Pluilur Seal
Jacob Funderburk
Paul Pluilur Seal
Jno. Hancock
Mary Mosman Seal
Seal

Elizabeth Plyler was the widow of Frederick who had died in 1806. Frederick was the son of Henry Plyler, Sr.

There is little information found on Henry during the period 1764-1780.

Henry Plyler moved to Lancaster County, South Carolina in 1789 at which time he bought 100 acres of land on Lynches Creek. He was married to Maria Christina Reinhart on 30 Mar 1752 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

257. Maria Christina Reinhart(1) died. Children were:

child i. Mary Plyler(1).
child ii. Conrad Plyler(1) was born in 1752. He died in 1834 in Lancaster County, South Carolina. He was christened in Served in the Revolution War.
child iii. Henry Pliler(1) was born between 1752 and 1770.
child iv. Frederick Plyler(1) was born on 12 Jul 1753 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He died on 11 May 1806 in Cabarrus County, North Caorlina.
child v. Jacob Plyler(1) was born in 1764 in Mecklinnburg County, North Carolina. He died after 1850 in Chesterfield County, South Carolina. Our common ancestor, Jacob Pyler Sr. was born in 1764 which means. that he was born in Mecklinburg County, NC. The names of Frederick, Conrad and Henry, Jr. begin to appear on land deeds during the latter part of this time period. The 1790 Census Records of Lancaster District SC lists the names of two Conrads, Jacob and Paul Plyler. The 1850 Census Records of South Carolina lists the age of Jacob Plyler as being age 84 and a
widower. His wife, Mary, was listed as the same age in earlier cenus records. The growth of the Plyler Clan can be observed from 1790 and on in each Census. The Plyler Family became well established in Lancaster and Chesterfield Counties. It is apparent that the children of these German families soon began to marry outside of the German Community. Elizabeth Plyler who was born in 1830 married Pleasant Peter Key who was of English
Origin. These names also begin to be found in South Carolina' Land Records at about this same time which establishes the Plylers firmly in South Carolina.

The children of Jacob and Mary Plyler are:

1. Jacob Plyler, Jr. B.- 1787, D. Nov. 22, 1857.

2. Martin Plyler, B. 1793, M. Deliah Plyler (his cousin).

3. Henry Plyler, B. 1795, D. June 13, 1873, M. Sarah Plyler.

4. Anna Maria Plyler

5. Daughter

6. Daughter

7. Daughter
child128 vi. Paul Plyler.

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