Descendants of Adam Rogers of New London, Connecticut

 

Adam Rogers (1670) - Roswell Noyes Rogers (1848)

 

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Adam Rogers (1670) – a mulatto slave who was freed and then raised a large family in the early 1700’s in rural New London, Connecticut.  He squatted on a farm for 20-30 years and was later evicted when the land sold.           

 

                        Wife:               Katherine Jones (20 Dec. 1679)

                        Children:       Ruth (1703)

                                       John (1704)

                                       Abigail (1706)

                                       Jonathan (1708)

                                       Adam (1710)

                                       Katherine (1711)

                                       Ebenezer (1713/1714)

                                       Ralph (1715)

                                       Jermima (1717)

                                       Gammon (1720)

                                       Thomas (1721)

 

John Rogers, “The Cooper” (1704) – a maker of wooden buckets and casks, who lived in Middletown, Connecticut, and may be the one by that name who served in a Middletown unit in the French and Indian War.

 

                        Wife:               Mary Tomkin

                        Children:       John (1734)

                                                Katherine (1736)

 

John Rogers, (1734) – a small property owner in East Haddam, Connecticut, who probably worked in some of the many mills of the “Millington” area of East Haddam.

 

                        Wife:               Sarah Borden

                        Children:       Gurdon (1760)

                                                Dorothy (1762)

                                                Roswell (1764)

                                                Sarah (1766)

                                                Belina/Delina (1769)

 

Roswell Rogers, (1764) – an owner of a modest sized farm in East Haddam.  After borrowing heavily and losing his properties following the War of 1812, he moved his wife, Wealthy Chappell, and family by 1830 to Madison County, NY and thereafter to Leroy Township, Lake County, Ohio.

 

                        Wife:               Wealthy Chappell (1779)

                        Children:       Erastus (1798)

                                                Wealtha (1799)

                                                Rocksey (1801)

                                                William (1804)

                                                “infant” (1807)

                                                Roswell (1810)

                                                Joseph (1811)

                                                George R. (1813)

 

Joseph Noyes L. Rogers, (1811) – records show he was a farmer and sometime “minister.”  He moved his family west to Illinois, Minnesota, and Iowa.  He enlisted in the Union Army three times, beginning at the age of 50 and was captured once by Southern troops.  When he died in 1893, he had been married 59 years to Roxania Brainard.

 

                        Wife:               Roxania Brainard (1818)

                        Children:       Eli S.C. (1835)

                                                Albert (1837)

                                                Polly (1839)

                                                Sarah A. (1842)

                                                Mary (1844)

                                                Roswell Noyes (Twin- 23 May 1848)

                                                Rockwell H (Twin- 23 May 1848)

 

Roswell Noyes Rogers, (1848) – a farmer, woodcutter, “veterinary surgeon,” bricklayer, and laborer.  He raised a large family with Amy Munden in Illinois and Iowa.

 

                        Wife:               Emily “Amy” Munden

                        Children:       William Thomas (1874)

                                                Charles Leavanson (1876)

                                                Charlotte Ellen (1879)

                                                Frank Francis (1881)

                                                Mary Jane (1884)

                                                Harry Arthur (1885)

                                                Clarence Alden

                                                Daisy (1891) 

 

 

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