Second Generation
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Charles I claimed the territory from latitude 36°N to latitude 31°N around 1629 and granted it to Sir Robert Heath.  He failed to settle the area, named Carolina after Charles I, so Charles II awarded the territory to Lord Ashley (Anthon Ashley Cooper) and seven others in 1663.  The first permanent English settlement in southern Carolina was at Albemarle Point governed by William Sayle. Conditions forced the settlers to move to what is now known as Charleston in 1670.  South Carolina officially became a crown colony in 1729.  European immigration was encouraged opening the area to settlement by the Germans and Swiss in the 1730’s and 40’s.
 
 Andrew Kaigler and Katherine Copplepower arrived in South Carolina in about 1750.  In addition to land grants, Andrew amassed approximately 900 acres on the Congaree River near Sandy Run, Calhoun, South Carolina.  They had nine children:
 
1.   John Kaigler (1751 - 9/6/1814)
   
2.   Mary Ann Kaigler (6/1/1752 - 8/10/1837)
3.   Andrew Kaigler, Jr. (1753 - 1821)
   
4.   Elizabeth Kaigler (1756 -     )
   
5.   George Kaigler (1754 -     )
   
6.   William Kaigler
   
7.   Frederick Kaigler
   
8.   Thomas Kaigler (175? - 1823)
   
9.   Michael Kaigler (1758 - 8/14/1814)
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Andrew Kaigler (Sr.) was a Lieutenant in Lt. Colonel Wade Hampton's volunteer South Carolina cavalry regiment and received 957 pounds for services during the Revolution.  He is listed in the DAR Patriotic Index National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution, p. 377.  Any descendent of Andrew Kaigler is eligible to join the Daughters of the American Revolution or Sons of the American Revolution.
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Clara Langley , South Carolina Deed Abstracts 1719-1772, vol. 4 (Greenville: Southern Historical Press, 1984) :

 

William Baker and Catherine, his wife, to Andrew Kegler, planter, both of the Conagrees, for £660 pounds South Carolina money ($8100), 150 acres and town lot #71. Whereas on 12 Apr 1744 Gov. James Glen granted William Baker, father of the said William Baker, 150 acres in Saze-Gotha Twp on the SW side of the Santee River, in Berkeley County, bounding on other side on vacant land; also lot #71 in town of Saxe-Gotha, containing half an acre (see secretary's book E.E., fol. 231) & whereas William Baker, the father, died in 1759, having bequeathed the tract and lot to his son, William, he now sells to Kegler. Witnesses: Melker Hofman & Lewis Baker, before William Tucker, J.P. on 16 Oct 1766. Recorded 24 Feb 1768 by Fenwicke Bull, Register.

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Brent Holcomb, South Carolina Deed Abstracts 1783-88 (Columbia: South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, 1996) 459.  (Book Z-5, p.262-3):

 

Indicates that on 7 Jan 1785, George Lites of Saluda, Orangeburgh District, SC, planter, sold to Andrew Kagler of Saxe-Gotha in Orangeburgh District, 400 acres on the south side of the Santee River within Saxe-Gotha Twp for 200 pounds sterling ($14,000).  (Book Z-5, p.363-4) indicates that on 23 Feb 1779 Henry Patrick of Saxe-Gotha Twp, SC, merchant, sold to Andrew Kegler of the same township, planter, for 10 shillings ($28), 350 acres of land on the south side of the Santee River in Saxe-Gotha Twp, originally granted to Elizabeth Mercier (daughter of William and Esther Seawright) in 1758
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