John Rogers
- Born: 20 Mar 1674, New London, New London, Connecticut 539
- Marriage: Bathsheba Smith on 2 Jan 1700 in New London, New London, Connecticut, Bristish American Colonies 539,618
- Died: 18 Iun 1753, Mamacock Farm, New London, New London, Connecticut
 General Notes:
Sources:
~James Rogers of New London, Ct., And His Descendants, James Swift Rogers, Boston, 1902, p. 43, 44, 60-69
~Wolcott Genealogy, Robert C. Griffen and Mitchell R. Alegre, Interlaken, New York: Heart of the Lakes Publishing, 1986, p. 34
~The Griswold Family : England-America, Middleboro, Massachusetts: Griswold Family Association of America, 1935, p. 128
Noted events in his life were:
• On-line Birth Records: New London Vital Records.
• Background Information: 589
John Rogers, Junior, at the age of 15, came to live with his father about the time his sister, Elizabeth married Stephen Prentis, of Bruen's Neck. Although he had permission of his mother, she sent a constable to forcibly return him to Lyme. He soon returned and embraced his father's religious teachings.
Elizabeth Griswold, relinquished all claim to the Mamacok farm for thirty pound and the promise that John would never trouble her father about the farm again. This farm ws given to John Rogers, junior. John Jr. married his cousin, Bathsheba Smith, and settled at Mammacock. He raised eighteen children, most of them also became followers of their grandfather's teachings. Mamacock and the neighboring highland overwhich the Rogers family spread, was called Quaker Hill.
~History of New London, Connecticut : from the first survey of the coast in 1612 to 1852, pp 208-209
• Web Reference: The Rogerenes, Book 2: History of the Rogerenes.
The Rogerenes: Part II, History of the Rogerenes. Boston by Anna B. Williams & Published by Stanhope Press, 1904, gives an account of the life of John Rogers from the point of view of a follower of the Rogerenes which is more sympathetic version of the life of John Rogers Senior & John Rogers Junior than those given by the Griswold's or The History of New London, Connecticut.
John married Bathsheba Smith, daughter of Richard Smith and Bathsheba Rogers, on 2 Jan 1700 in New London, New London, Connecticut, Bristish American Colonies 539.,618 (Bathsheba Smith was born in 1678 in New London, New London, Connecticut and died on 13 Nov 1721 in New London, New London, Connecticut 618.)
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