1777 – Earliest Record of John Plaster (Plesterer) “Sr.”
– Marriage to Mary Porter
Earliest-found evidence of “John Plaster Sr” is the 1777 marriage record in the marriage records of the Frederick, Maryland Monacacy Lutheran and Evangelical Lutheran Church(es). On the left, a Transcription of the crossed-out notes on the brown image on the right (see small arrow) mentions may have resulted from a postponement of the service. The b/w microfilm image in the center (#31) records the final marriage date as “7 Octobre.”
Photographs, below, of the Frederick, Maryland Evangelical church taken on Feb. 5, 2025 show the front of the 1854 structure, the plaque describing the church’s previous buildings dating back to a 1743 log church “on the Monocacy (River)”
The stone church finished in 1762 (interupted by French & Indian war) would have likely been where John Plesterer was married to Nancy Porter.
Below is the Plaster family tree (ca. 1910 from James N. Plaster of Enochville, NC). The first name of John Plaster’s first wife (Nancy Porter) is “unknown” at that time.
The paragraph about John Plaster (Sr.) states family lore that John “Sr.” is in Patrick Cty, VA during 1980s raising sons by hunting and avoiding revolutionary war and Indian conflicts before moving south to NC in the 1790s.
