Hans Jacob Ohler

Excerpt from "The Germanna Record" No12

_________ Aylor (perhaps John Peter) was born approximately 1965-1700 in germany and died prior to 1742, probably in Virginia. He married, probably prior to 1717, Anna Magdalena Snyder, daughter of the 1717 colonists Henry and Dorothy Snyder, and after his death she became the second wife of the 1717 Germanna colonist, John Harnsberger, who mentions in his will his wife's children, Elizabeth Tanner and Henry Alyor (Germanna Record No. 6, pp. 27-28).

The German name was probably Oehler, which is the way it is usually spelled in the Hebron Lutheran Church records and the way it was spelled by Henry Aylor, No. 2, in various documents. Several other spellings occur in the records, but the name has for a long time usually been spelled Alor. The Aylor family is treated briefly in Germanna Record No. 6 (pp 51-2) and they and the Tanners are the only descendants of Henry Snyder, the 1717 ermanna colonist, and his wife Dorothy (germanna Record No. 6, p. 40). Henry Snyder, in his will dated Nov. 30, 1742, probated in Orange Co., Va. Mar. 26, 1747, left all his property to his wife Dorothea, to his daughter Anna Magdalena Aler, widow, and to her children Henry Aler and Elizabeth Tanner. the records do not show the first name of Anna Magdalena's husband, though he was probably a John Pieter Oehler who landed at Philadelphia on the ship "Thistle" June 19, 1730. Whether this identification is correct or not, in any case the Aylors do not seem to have been among he 1717 Germanna colonists, but came over later with their two children to join Anna Madgalena's parents in orange Co. this is cnfirmed by the fact that Manna Magdalena's son, Henry Aylor, was naturalized April 19, 1745 (fiuseppi "Naturalization of foreign protestants in the American and West Indian Colonies," p. 9), showing that he was born in Germany. He must have been at least 21 in this year, so born about 1724. The tradition in the Aylor family is that they lived some time near Esen Germany, where they were iron workers; but Henry Aylor's naturalization shows that he was a native of Wuertemberg.

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