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State of Service: GA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Drury Rogers b. c1737 d. 1791 WILKES COUNTY, GEORGIA
He served as a private in the Georgia Troops under Colonel Elijah Clark and built "Rogers' Fort" along Poplar and Camp Creeks near the Ogeechee River, where he lived. In spring 1779, the fort was destroyed by Indians. He later received bounty land along Shoulderbone Creek in old Washington County for his services.
See: (1) Early Records of Georgia: Wilkes County, v. 1, p. 12, 46.
(2) Georgia Citizens and Soldiers of the American Revolution, p. 165.
(3) Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers, Sailors, Patriots & Descendants, v. 2, p. 187.
(4) Georgia's Roster of the Revolution, p. 323.
Source: Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers; Volume 2, by Ross Arnold & Hank Burnham with additions and corrections by: Mary Jane Galer, Dr. Julian Kelly, Jr., and Ryan Groenke. Edited by: Ryan Groenke.
A Georgia County-by-County compilation of Revolutionary War Patriots who made Georgia their permanent home and died here, including information on service history, birth dates, death dates and places of burial with an index.
Published by the Georgia Society Sons of the American Revolution, 2001.
Printed in the United States of America
New Papyrus Co., Inc.
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Athens, GA 30605-3408
Author: Hugh I. Rodgers
Drury Rogers was born about 1737, Surry County, VA; he died bef. 15 Feb 1791, Wilkes County, GA.
Drury Rogers rendered patriotic service in the cause of independence. He had moved to Wilkes County, Georgia, in 1773. In 1779 a band of Tories and Creek Indians plundered and burned his property on the Ogeechee River. Drury Rogers gave public testimony as a witness for the prosecution at a trial of these Tories in Wilkes County on 25 August 1779. Seven Tories were convicted and sentenced to death for high treason and doing murder on the frontiers of Wilkes County.
After the Revolution, Drury Rogers received a Bounty Certificate signed by Col. Elijah Clarke.
Drury married Tabitha in NC about 1758. They had eleven surviving children.
Hugh I. Rodgers, National No. 131530
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