Isaac ROGERS

James married Susanna TRACY on 17 Feb 1697/8. Susanna (daughter of John TRACY and Mary PRENCE) was born about 1676 in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; died after 5 Mar 1749. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Mary PAINE on 11 Jan 1670 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. Mary (daughter of Thomas PAINE and Mary SNOW) was born before 1655; died after 12 May 1705. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Thomas Paine & Mary Snow

John married Mary PRENCE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Death: Between 12 and 25 Jan 1678
• Will: 02 Jan 1677/8
• Fact: 15 Jan 1677/8, Inventory of estate

Notes:

Came with his fathr to America in the 'Mayflower' in 1620, when a lad of 12 to 13 yrs old; and his father dying early in 1621, left the boy upon his own resources. He settled at Duxbury and later went to Sandwich where he resided for a time; and in 1655, he removed to Eastham, Mass., permanently locating thre - where he died.

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Lieut. Joseph Rogers went to Eastham soon after the settlement opened, paid his proportion of the purchase money, and at once took a leading part in the affairs of the new township. He came over in the Mayflower, with his father,Thomas Rogers, and appears to have been the only member of his father's family that ventured in that famous vessel. At the time, it appears, he was a lad. He doubtless was the eldest of his father's children, and, perhaps, came to have care of his father, who, it is inferred from what Bradford has stated, was a widower. His father did not survive the first winter; he took the distemper which carried off so many of that noble band, died, and was buried, as is supposed, with the other victims on Cole's Hill. Some years afterwards the remaining portion of his family found their way to this country, where they married and settled. With whom Lieut. Joseph lived during that terrible winter and spring, after burying his father, does not appear. It certainly must have been a dreary winter to him as well as to the other survivors. the bill of mortality as given by Prince, the chronologist, as gathered from Bradford's papers, shows that the little band of worthies was incapable of doing much more than to attend to the sick and to bury the dead, for the first four months. the number of deaths occurring in December was six; January, eight; February, seventeen and in March thirteen. Elder Brewster and Captain Standish were among the very few that escaped the sickness. They have been highly spoken of by the Pilgrim historian for their great services during the sickness.....

In 1647, at the June session of the Old Colony court, he was proposed as a suitable person for a lieutenant at Nausett to "exercise the men" in arms, and was appointed. He held this position till 166, when his lieutenancy was revoked, and he was released from further duty as militia officer. He was however, reappointed lieutenant of the Eastham Company in 1664, succeeding Lieut. Wm Merrick or Myrick. In February, 1652, with other persons from various parts of the colony, he was appointed to la out the way fro Sandwich to near Eel River in Plymouth. In 1658, he was one of the Council of War, and that year had liberty to purchase tracts of meadow at Pottonumecot, near the mouth of the river.

Joseph married Hannah ? about 1632. Hannah died between 02 Jan 1677 and 1678. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Mary SNOW on 03 Apr 1650/1. Mary (daughter of Nicholas SNOW and Constance HOPKINS) was born about 1630 in Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 28 Apr 1704 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 28 Dec 1596, Great Yarmouth, England

Notes:

Excerpt from "The Tracy Genealogy": Stephen Tracy,son of Sephen ad Agnes (Erdley) Tracy, was baptized at Great Yarmouth, England, on 28 December 1596. Some time in 1620 or perhaps even earlier, Stephen came to a decision and took a step which had a far-reaching effet on his own life and the lives of all his descendants. he decided to break all home ties and join the colony of Pilgrims at Leyden, Holland. It is possible that he was following the lady of his choice, for in Great Yarmouth there was then a Lee family and in a "Betrothal book" of the Leyden Archives is found the full record concerning the marriage of Stephen Tracy to Tryphose Lee. This includes the entry of their appearance before the officials on 18 December 1620, and publishing of the Banns on 19 and 24 December and on 1 January, and finally the marriage itself on 2 January 1620-1. This record calls Stephen a "say-worker, bachelor fromEngland" and adds that AAnthony Clements a friend came with him, while Tryphosa Lee is called "spinster, also from England" and an acquaintance Rose Jennings accompainied her.
The Pilgrim Community at Leyden numbered about three hundred members, most of whom migrated to America. Including friends who joined them at Plymouth, England, one hundred and two Pilgrims set out for the New World on the "Mayfloer" and arrived at the coast of what was afterwards known as Plymouth Colony 21 December 1620; thirty sailed on the "Fortune," arriving 9 November 1621; and sixty sailed on the "Ann" and "Little James" in 1623.
Stephen and Tryphosa lived at Leyden for a time and doubtless their daughter Sarah was born there, but evidently they were imbued with the same ideals as the Pilgrims for Stephen came to the New World among those on the "Ann" which sailed from England in the latter part of April 1623 and arrived at Plymouth late in July or early in August of that year........
In 1639 he was constable of Duxbury. He served as a grand juryman 1640-42, and was employed at surveying at various times. In 1643 and 1646 his name appeared on the list of freemen. He had an interest in the purchase of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, as shown in the account of the shareholders' meeting at Pymouth, 7 March 1652. Apparently his wife Tryphosa had died, and desiring to visit his hative land and relatives at Great Yarmouth he returnedc to England about 1653-4. He became ill there within a year and realizing that he would be unable to return to America he signed a power of attorney which was the equivalent of a will....

Stephen married Tryphosa LEE on 2 Jan 1620/21. Tryphosa died before 1653. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Treasurer of Plymouth Colony
• Fact: Served Plymouth Colony as Governors Assistant
• Fact: Elected as the 4th Governor of Plymouth Colony
• Fact: Served as Commissioner of the United Colonies
• Fact: Second term as governor of Plymouth Colony
• Fact: Elected Governor of the Jurisdiction of New Plym

Notes:

Thomas came in the "Fortune" that arrived at Cape Cod November 9, 1621.

Excerpt from "Dawes-Gates, Ancestral Lines":
His residence was first at Plymouth, but before the spring of 1632 he had followed his father-in-law, William Brewster, to Duxbury, where Patience Brewster, the wife of Thomas Prence, died in 1634 and where the residences of these two families continued until 1644, at which time the beloved Elder William died and Thomas Prence removed with his family to Nauset on the Cape. In this change he was accompanied by six other families, including those of John Doane, Josiah Cooke, and Edward Bangs, a total of forty-nine souls. there he was instrumental in forming the fourth church in the infant colony and in 1651 the settlement was renamed Eastham. While Thomas was still resident in Duxbury, and aged on about thirty-four, he was elected governor in 1634, serving then for the term of one year. In 1638 he was again the recipient of the same honor, but five years previously a law had been passed requiring the governor to reside in Plymouth, so he declined the office. On the insistence of the court he agreed to accept the position if the residence clause were waived. That request was granted, and he served during the year 1638. For more than forty years after 1632 he continuously served as an assistant or magistrate, except while holding the chief office of governor.
While resident in Eastham, and immediately following the death of Governor Bradford, Thomas Prence was unanimously chosen to succeed him, and thereafter for sixteen consecutive years, or until his own death in 1673, he held the office of governor. On his election in 1657 the court again granted him the special concession of waiver of residence, permitting him to continue to live at Eastham, where he had a farm of at least two hundred acres of the richest land in the vicinity.

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Thomas Prence was the most distinguished of the settlers of Eastham, though not the best educated. At the time of his removal in 1645, he was holding the position of an assistant to Gov. Bradford, and had twice been chosen governor of the infant colony --first election in 1634, and second election in 1638. He was a native of Lechlade, a parish in Gloucestershire, England, it is understood, and born about the year 1600. He came to Plymouth in the ship Fortune, in November 1621. At the time of his removal he was residing in Duxbury. His farm at Eastham contained many acres, It was situated northwest of Town cove, in that part now included within the present town of Eastham.His house stood on the east side of the county road, near where Mr. E. Doane's house now stands. It is said his farm comprised the "richest land" in the place. the famous old pear tree planted by him while a resident, and which was blown down in 1849, stood but a few rods westward from the site of his house. He was a large landowner. He owned land in what became afterwards Harwich and Truro, besides tracts at Tonset and other localities in the Colony. He disposed of most of his landed estate before his death. His tracts at Sauquatucket, now Brewster, which came to him by grant, on the account of having been a "Purchaser or Old-Comer," he sold to his son-in-law, Major John Freeman, in 1672. His "half share" at Paumet, both "purchases and unpurchased," or Lovell's Creek," he sold to Mr. Thomas Paine in 1670......

Gov. Prence continued in the office of an assistant by successive elections till 1657, when he was unanimously elected to the office of governor, as successor to Gov. Bradford, who died that year. As the law required the governor to reside at the seat of government, a dispensation was obtained for him, and he was allowed to remain at Eastham, as he desired. Mrs. Bradford was engaged to entertain him and his assistants while at Court; an attendant was appointed to attend him in his journey to and from Plymouth, and occupied the place provided by the government at a place called Plain Dealing, which the late Judge John Davis, a native of Plymouth, says was "nearly two miles from the centre of the town on the road to Boston." The late William Russell in his Guide to Plymouth, says the place called Plain Dealing, "extended near "Mr. Hedges," and in the vicinity of "Starts Hill." At this place, while occupying the gubernatorial chair, he died March 29, 1673, in his 73d year. He was "honorably interred at Plymouth, April 8th." Judge Davis says" "the Plymouth church records, in expressing Mr. Prence's character and his amiable and pleasant conversation, depart from their usual course by an indication of his personal appearance, from which it ay be supposed that it was peculiarly dignified and striking. He was excellently qualified for the office of governor. He had a countenance full of majesty, and therein, as well as otherwise, was a terror to evil doers. Besides holding the office of governor, Mr. Prence was a great number of years an assistant of Gov. Bradford. He was one of the commissioners of the United Colonies many years; colonial treasurer and one of the council of war. He was one of those who stood bound to the adventures for the payment of the sum they demanded for their interest in the stock, trade, etc., of the colony, when the purchase was made in behalf of those who came in the three ships, viz; Mayflower, Fortune, and Ann.

Thomas married Mary COLLIER on 01 Apr 1635 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Mary (daughter of William COLLIER and Jane YATES) was christened on 18 Feb 1611/2 in St. Olave's Parish, Southwark, Surrey; died before 08 Dec 1662 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]