Jonathan ROGERS

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"James Rogers and His Descendants": "She died soon afterwards, before his will was proved." The fact that Jonathan married a Judith Potter has been affirmed by many descendants and others, but after diligent search her parentage has not been discovered. Jonathan Rogers was known as "Captain Jonathan", but why he received the title has not been shown He was the only son, and bought all the rights of his five sisters in the homestead property.

He lived in westerly, Rhode Island at one time, as is shown by the Westerly records, but it is not known that any of his children were born there.

July 12, 1731, Jonathan rogers to be scited to appear at the next town council or forthwith to depart out of the town. (So. Kingstown RI)

May 29, 1732, voted by town council of Westerly to warn Jonathan Rogers out of town. (Westerly RI)

May 31, 1732, Jonathan Rogers of New London buys land in Westerly of Jonathan Maxson of Westerly.

June 26, 1732, Voted that Justice Rhoades shall give a warrant to the Constable or serg't to warn Jonathan rogers out of town.

Jonathan married Judith POTTER on 24 Nov 1711. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Ruth ROGERS was born on 4 Oct 1722 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA; died after 1756.

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• Birth: 31 Dec 1655, "James Rogers and His Descendants" lists two different birth dates

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"James Rogers and His Descendants": He was drowned near Gull Island* He married Mar 2, 1678, Naomi, daughter of Robert and Ruth (Hubbard) Burdick of Newport, RI. He was baptized in New London, Mar 2, 1674-5, by Elder William Hiscox of Newport, and immediately following the baptism, Jonathan and his brothers, James and John, were received as members of the Newport church, having been baptized some time previous by Mr. John Crandall of Westerly, RI.

His widow married (2) Mar. 11, 1703, John, son of William and Agnes Keeney, as his second wife.

Jonathan Rogers lived upon a farm on the Great Neck, given him by his father, which was also owned by his son Jonathan. The stone house occupied by the latter is still standing near the site of the house built by his father**....

*The accepted tradition of his accidental death is as follows: He had shot a seal and went for it on a log. He attached one end of a rope to the seal and the other end to his own body, in order to have free use of his hands. The seal revived in the struggle, and Mr. Rogers was drawn under water and held there. It is further stated that his son Jonathan, twelve years of age, was with his father and saw him go down According to the record, the son could have been but seven years old, unless, as some of the descendants claim, he was born in 1683 or '84.

**"Jonathan Rogers now stood alone among the brothers, adhering steadfastly to the Sabbatarian principles,from which he never swerved. His family became the nucleus of a small denomination on the Great Neck, which has ever since existed. From generation to generation, they connected themselves with churches of their own faith in Rhode Island, at first with that of Newport, and afterwards with that of Hopkinton and Westerly, until in the year 1784, 109 years after the baptism of their founder, Jonathan Rogers, they were organized into a distinct church and society" (Calkins, History of New London)

Jonathan married Naomi BURDICK on 2 Mar 1678. Naomi (daughter of Robert BURDICK and Ruth HUBBARD) was born in 1658. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Robert Burdick and Ruth Hubbard

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"James Rogers and His Descendants": the parentage of James Rogers has not been ascertained and the place and date of his birth are unknown. Many of his descendants firmly believe the tradition that he himself said he was the great-grandsonof John Rogers the martyr. He was probably a native of England is supposed to have been born about 1615. He died --, 1687, in New London. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Rowland, in Stratford, CT. No record of her birth has been found. She died about 1709 and was said by her grandson James, who was her executor, to have been very aged.

The births of the children are recorded in Milford, CT., but this is not proof that they were all born there, as it was not unusual to record the names and birth-dates of children in the town to which the family removed, regardless of the place of birth, and it is probably that some of the children of James Rogers were born in Stratford, CT.

James married Elizabeth ROWLAND. Elizabeth died about 1709. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield: Elizabeth is said to be the daughter of Samuel Rowland, an early settler of Stratford, possibly brother of Henry of Fairfield; d. early leaving a will, of which the only mention is found in Statford Deeds.

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"A Potter-Richardson Memorial": Robert Burdick came in 1651 from England, settling in Newport, Rhode Island, where he was baptized November 19, 1652. He married November 2, 1655, Ruth Hubbard, 1640-1691, daughter of Samuel and Tacy (Cooper) Hubbard of Newport. He was admitted a freeman in 1657. By 1662, they had moved to Westerly, Rhode Island. She died in Westerly in 1691, and he died in 1692.

Robert married Ruth HUBBARD on 2 Nov 1655. Ruth (daughter of Samuel HUBBARD and Tacy COOPER) was born on 11 Jan 1640 in Springfield, Massachusetts; died in 1691 in Westerly, Washington Co., Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Samuel Hubbard and Tacy Cooper

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Samuel Hubbard, youngest son of James and Naomi (Cocke) Hubbard, was born in Mendlesham (a market town about eighty miles northeast of London), Suffolk County, in 1610. he arrived in Salem, Mass., in October, 1633, and probably came in the ship James. Grant, master, which left Gravesend, England, late in August, 1633, and arrived in Massachusetts Bay October 10, 1633. he says in his Diary, "I was born of good parents. My Mother brought me up in the fear of the Lord, in Mendlesham, in catechizing me and hearing choice ministers," &c. March 4, 1634-5, he was admitted a freeman, and shortly moved to my faith." This same year he went o Dorchester (Windsor) Ct., with the overland migrators. He was arrived there by Mr. (Roger?) Ludlow, to Tacy Cooper, who was born in England in 1608 and came to Dorchester, Mass., June 9, 1634, and to Dorchester (Windsor) Ct., in 1635. She had brothers Robert, of yarmouth, Norfolk, and John of London, Eng. Robert returned to England from America in 1644. SAMUEL HUBBARD went to Wethersfield, Ct., in 1637, and May 10, 1639, removed to Springfield, Mass, which he left for Fairfield, Ct., in 1647, through staying there but a short time on account of church disagreements. SAMUEL was now with his wife imbibing freely and preaching ardently the doctrines of Anabaptism. He says in his diary; "God having enlightened both (but mostly my wife) into his holy ordinance of baptizing only of visible believers, and being very zealous for it, she was mostly struck at, and answered two terms publicly, where I was said to be as bad as she, and sore threatened with imprisonment to Hartford jail, if not to renounce it or to remove; that scripture came into our minds: "If they persecute you in one place flee to another; and so we did a day of October, 1648. We went for Rhode Island and arrived there the 12 day. I and my wife upon our manifestation of our faith were baptised by brother Joseph Clarke, 3 day of November, 1648."

SAMUEL HUBBARD spent the remainder of his life in and about Newport, or "Mayford" as he termed it. He was a zealous Baptist and public religious disputant. For twenty-three years he belonged to the First Baptist Church of Newport, which sent him August 7, 1651, to boston "to visit the bretherin who was imprisoned in Boston Jayl for witnessing the truth of baptising believers only, Viz: Brothers John Clark, Obadiah Holmes, and John Crandall." In 1657 he went with Holmes on a preaching tour on Long Island. In 1664 he was appointed General Solicitor of the Colony. April 7, 1668, he went to Boston with Joseph Torrey and William Hiscox "to publicly dispute with those baptised there." December 23, 1671, with his wife, one daughter, and four other persons he formed the first Seventh Day Baptist Church in America. In July, 1668, he worte a letter to his cousin John Smith, of London, detailing his worldly possessions "through God's great mercy." In 1675 in his diary he refers to a "testament of my grandfather's Cocke's, printed in 1549, which he (Cocke) hid in his bed straw lest it should be found and burned in Queen Mary's days." In 1676 he corresponded with Dr. Edward Stennett, Pastor of the Seventh Day Baptist Church in Bell Lane, London. John Thornton and Roger Williams of Rhode Island, and Governor Leete of Connecticut were his friends. He died between 1688 and 1692, and his wife after 1697, but no traces of their burial places have been found.

Samuel married Tacy COOPER on 4 Jan 1636. Tacy was born in 1608; died after 1697. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]