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Ply Family of Stokes County, NC, 1810s & 1820s

Ply Family of Stokes County, NC, 1810s & 1820s

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 2:47AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Ply, Johnson,Barrett
Hello Ply Family researchers,

I am seeking any information about the family of John Ply listed as age 45 or older in the 1820 US census for Stokes County, NC. Because there was no other Ply family listed, I assume that he was the father of Peggy Ply who married John Johnson on Apr 16, 1815, and of John Ply JR who married Rebecca Barrett on Feb 2, 1824. Both marriages were in Stokes County, NC. (North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868).

Does anyone know what became of Peggy Ply Johnson & her husband John, or what happened to John Ply JR and his wife, Rebecca?

Any information will be appreciated,
Byron Bowman



Re: Ply Family of Stokes County, NC, 1810s & 1820s

Posted: 1 Feb 2012 2:57AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 1 Feb 2012 2:58AM GMT
Surnames: Ply
Hi,

I am the fourth great grandson of John Ply, Jr. and Rebecca Barrett. John and Rebecca migrated to Wabash, Indiana; specifically Rich Valley. John died in 1848, Rebecca in 1842. Rebecca's headstone is still there in the Rich Valley Cemetery, but John's has not been found there, although an old cemetery reading lists him and the date of death.

John and Rebecca had Charity, Margaret, and John Wesley (my relative). The descendants of Margaret and John Wesley are well-documented. In the 1840 census of Noble Township, Wabash, IN there is a John Ply with 7 other household members, so there were more children than I listed by name above.

In the Moravian Cemetery in Hope, Bartholomew County, Indiana, there is a grave for Margaret Ply (d. Nov. 25, 1852 "in the 80th year of her life", so she was born about 1772). On page 298 of "The History of Bartholomew County, IN," there is a biography of Thomas Reed, "born in Stokes County, N.C., Oct. 28, 1801..." and it goes on to say that he married Miss Catharine Ply, "a native of Davidson County, N.C., born February 16, 1809, and daughter of John and Margaret Ply." The 1850 census of Flatrock, Bartholomew County, IN shows this Reed family with Thomas, 49; Catharine [Ply] 43 and "Margaret Ply" 76.

My presumption is John Ply, Jr. (1800-1848), who married Rebecca Barrett, is a son of Margaret Ply (1772-1852), buried in Hope. I do not have any direct evidence to support this, but it seems highly likely at this point in my research. I am actively researching this line of my family and appreciate any input/feedback, etc.

Re: Ply Family of Stokes County, NC, 1810s & 1820s

Posted: 9 Feb 2012 3:58PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 9 Feb 2012 4:00PM GMT
Surnames: Johnson Ply
Hello Ply Family researchers,

I would like to propose that, after they were married in 1815, John Johnson & Peggy Ply settled in Stokes County, and that they were one of the two John Johnson families in the following abstracts of the Censuses for Stokes County in 1820 & 1830.

1820
John Johnson, 1 male <10, 1 male 26-44, 1 female <10, 1 female 16-25.
John M. Johnson, 1 male <10, 1 male 16-25, 1 female <10, 1 female 16-25,

1830
John Johnson 3 males under 5, 1 male 10-15, 1 male 30-40, 2 females 5-10, 1 female 10-15, 1 female 30-40. p254 # #12
John Johnson S. 1 male 10-15, 1 male 30-40 // 1 female under 5, 1 female 5-10, 1 female 10-15, 1 female 30-40. p294 #27

I have not found a likely match for John & Peggy in the 1840 census, but I believe that they were listed in the US Census for Surry County NC in 1840 in household 239 as John Johnson 55, Margaret Johnson 55, Washington Johnson 22, Alexander Johnson 17, Jane Johnson 15, Permelia Johnson, 13 Kate Johnson 11, and Mat. Johnson 8.

I would also like to suggest that the head of household 244, David Johnson 24, was another son of John & Margaret. David was married to Deborah Shinault and they had three children, Elizabeth 4, Margaret 2 and Mat.1.

Elizabeth is my great grandmother who married John C. Bowman in 1869.

Regards, Byron Bowman

Re: Ply Family of Stokes County, NC, 1810s & 1820s

Posted: 24 Jul 2012 10:59PM GMT
Classification: Query
Another sibling?

Mary Ply and Thomas Aldredge
m. 12 Oct 1822, Stokes Co. NC

Source:
North Carolina, Marriages, 1759-1979
Familysearch.org

Re: Ply Family of Stokes County, NC, 1810s & 1820s

Posted: 24 Jul 2012 11:10PM GMT
Classification: Query
I am searching for the parents of Nancy Pley, b. 2 June 1806 in North Carolina.

Nancy married Samuel Nelson Snyder/Snider on 12 April 1823 in Stokes County. By 1824, They were in Harrison Co. Indiana.

Samuel and Nancy are buried in the Smith Campground Cemetery in Dogwood, Harrison Co. IN.

Samuel's father, Cornelius Schneider (1750-1804) is buried in the Friedland Moravian Graveyard in Winston-Salem, Forsyth, North Carolina.

Do you think it is probable that Nancy Pley is part of the Ply family?

Thanks.

Re: Ply Family of Stokes County, NC, 1810s & 1820s

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 8:22PM GMT
Classification: Query
Anne,
I have found no Pley Surname record in the vicinity of Stokes County, NC in this time-frame other than than the marriage bond below. However, in the 1810 census for Rowan County there was a listing for John Plai or Ploi. Some of the neighbors in this non-alphabetized listing were named with John Ply as abutters in a Rowan County deed from Minus Griggs & wife to Henry Schneider, shoemaker of Wachovia, that was recorded in 1791.
I have convinced myself that Nancy Pley WAS a daughter of John Ply SR, and that he was listed as John Plai in the 1810 census. In that census, John SR was shown with five daughters and one son. There are marriage records in Stokes County for three daughters & the son, and I presume the other two daughters married after John SR left NC. The four NC records are:

1815 John Johnson Peggy Ply Stokes Gottliab Cramer,bm.
1822 Thos Aldredge Mary Ply Stokes J L Bitting,bm. R D Golding,Wit.
1824 John Ply, Jr Rebecea Barrett Stokes John L Bitting,bm. Wm H Lyon,Wit.
1825 Samuel Snyder Nancy Pley Stokes Henry Keller,bm. John C Blum,Wit.

Byron Bowman, ggg-grandson of Peggy Ply & John Johnson

Re: Ply Family of Stokes County, NC, 1810s & 1820s

Posted: 11 Aug 2012 2:02PM GMT
Classification: Query
Mark & other Ply Family researchers,
On Dec 21 1785 John Ply received a warrant in Rowan Co., NC to survey 329 acres of land on the waters of Muddy Creek, "Including Widow Ply's Improvements.” The Survey was made a little over a year later on Jan 15th 1787, and NC grant No. 1918 was issued on May 18, 1789. The property adjoined Minus Grigs & Mathias Wesner.
I believe that these records imply that John Ply was of legal age at the time of the issuance of the warrant, and that he was therefore born before Dec 21 1764.
I presume that Widow Ply was John's mother, and that his father had died after settling on the land. The land records for Minus Griggs indicate that his properties on Muddy Creek adjoined the Wachovia Tract that the Moravians bought from Lord Granville.
Muddy Creek is a branch of the Yadkin River that today arises in southwestern Stokes County & flows southward through western Forsyth County and into the northwest corner of Davidson County where it joins the Yadkin River. Most of Muddy Creek’s course lies just inside the western boundary of the Wachovia tract.
I think that the foregoing means that, at the time of John Ply's NC Land Grant in Rowan County, land that was on Muddy Creek and adjoined the Moravian Tract would have been just south of the Surry/Rowan line in the Muddy Creek watershed. The Surry/Rowan boundary coincided with the southern boundary of the Wachovia Tract. The boundary persisted as the Stokes/Rowan line when Stokes was split off from Surry in 1789, and as the Stokes/Davidson line when Davidson split off from Rowan in 1822, and finally as the Forsyth/Davidson line when Forsyth was split off of Stokes in 1849.

Re: Ply Family of Stokes County, NC, 1810s & 1820s

Posted: 8 Dec 2012 6:22PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 9 May 2013 1:34AM GMT
I believe that John Ply in Rowan County, NC may be from Maryland where a Bley family of German extraction settled in the 1750s. In a number of record there the name is also spelled as Pley, because of the hard "B" pronunciation.
The first Bley in Frederick County, MD was Johannes (John), who arrived in the "Bennett Galley" Aug. 1750 and was in Frederick County, MD by 20 Nov. 1757, when he married Maria Elisabetha Apfel in the Frederick Reform church. Johannes and Elisabeth "Pley" had a daughter Margaretha born 18 Nov. 1760 and bapt in the Frederick Church, Dec. 1760. In June 1760 Johannes Bley along with Rudolph Bley took communion at the same church (Rudolph was born in 1746 according to later records so if he were a son of Johannes, Elisabeth was a second marriage.
The second Bley to settle there was Adam Bley and his wife, Catherina Margaretha, who left Rumbach,(in southwest Germany) in 1752. She was named as daughter of Jacob Neuhart of Rumbach. Adam and Catherina Margaretha had a son Johannes Bley, baptized in the Reformed Church in Frederick 8 May 1757 (the child was born in Feb). Sponsored by Johannes Hoffman and Catherina. In Nov. 1758, "John Bligh" an orphan child" two years old next February" was made ward of John Hoffman,
The third Bley to settle in Frederick was Johann Georg, born in Finsternheim,(near Rumbach) 6 Nov. 1736, son of Christoph Bley. In 1765, the local gov't confiscated the property due Georg Bley and his sister, Catherina, from estate of their father, because the previous year they left for America without permission or paying fees for proper papers. As with Adam, there is no record of arrival in America but Georg and Catherina Bley are listed as taking communion in the Frederick Reform Church, Easter Sunday, 1767, along with a second Catherina Bley ( wife of Georg?- widow of Adam?) Georg was apparently a nephew of Johannes and Adam. Could Adam's son "John Bligh" be John Ply of NC? or could Johannes have had a son, John Jr. born after 1760? or perhaps Georg was married after arriving in 1764 and had s son John. These folks disappear from Frederick County, Maryland after 1767, except for Rudolph, who lived at Hagerstown and had six children baptized in the Reformed Church there. He is listed as Rudolph Ply in the 1790 census of Maryland. He and his family all moved to Wellsburg on the Ohio River in what is now the West Virginia Panhandle in 1800. Descendants of Rudolph eventually spelled their name "Bly"

Re: Ply Family of Stokes County, NC, 1810s & 1820s

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 7:45PM GMT
Classification: Query
I am a Ply of Indiana as well and the family last name has always been a mystery. My paternal grandfather was born in Wabash and we know that the Ply family name came to the US through the Carolina's but there, rather than Ellis Island, they did not keep record of origin country...

Re: Ply Family of Stokes County, NC, 1810s & 1820s

Posted: 22 Feb 2014 12:59AM GMT
Classification: Query
Does anyone know who Rebecca Barrett's father was? My 5th gr-grandfather was Jonathan Barrett who married Elizabeth Henderson and they were at Barrett's Mountain in Stokes County, North Carolina. They had at least two children, Jonathan, Jr 1757-1840 and Jerusha 1761-1849. Jerusha Barrett married John Keller (my 4th gr-grandparents) and relocated to Harrison County, Indiana. Nancy Pley and Samuel Nelson Snider were my 3rd gr-grandparents.
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