The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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Birth: 13 Nov 1747 Westborough / Worcester / MA Death: 04 Jun 1827 Marlborough / Cheshire / NH
Qualifying Service Description:
Served as a Sergeant under Captain Daniel Barnes in Colonel Jonathan Ward's Regiment at the battles of Long Island and White Plains, New York, and under Captain Enoch Hale in Lieutenant Colonel Heald's Regiment responding to to reinforce the garrison at Tichonderoga
Additional References:
NSSAR #155490
Rolls of the Soldiers in the Rev War, New Hampshire State Papers, Vol 15, pg 92 and 102
36th-45th Annual Reports DAR. Senate documents (United States Congress, Senate). Government Printing Office: Washington, DC
Photo by permission: Wayne Rogers, Eagle Chapter, California SAR
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Author: Wayne Jerome Rogers
Sgt. John Rogers was born 1747 in Wetboro,, MA, and married Esther Ball of Grafton in 1769. She was born 2 years earlier than he on Dec. 9, 1745. Together they had nine children. One of who died during early childhood. They had 4 children by the time the Revolution began, and 6 by the time the war end. . He died in Marlboro, NH in 1827, buried in Center Cemetery, principally of Revolutionary soldiers. In the Revolutionary War he served initially in White Plains NY, where he survived with the miraculous escape of Washington’s army from New York. He was a Private in the Massachusetts continental line. Later he was a Sergeant under Colonel Enoch Hale’s New Hampshire regiment which marched to reinforce Ticonderoga, June 1777. On the 4th day of their march they received information that General St Clair was about to abandon the fortress and the company was ordered to return soon after disbandanded. Whether he was involved with any further action in the revolution we are not certain. If he is the same John Rogers indicated under the rollbox number 87 he was named 8 times from the ranks of private to sergeant to lieutenant. An according to my family genealogy he ranked as a Captain when the war closed, more likely toward the end of War of 1812, as part of a militia. . He was represented as being strong, active and as a great hunter, spending a large part of his tie in pursuit of game. However, in 1792 with a number of influential men in town they imbibed freely at a tavern and spent the night in carousing actions as an eye witness as though they were bedeviled. When light began to dawn, they had just enough spirt to attempt to burn John Rogers at a stake. Fortunately stake was erected in a pile of green shaving which was unable to burn, and thus he survived again! His wife Esther died in 1811, and In War of 1812, he was scalped by Indians, but again survived. After the war he lived with his daughter Polly and son in law Capt. Shubael Stone, to the age of 80. The center tombstone (see photo) is that of Wayne’s patriot Sgt. John Rogers and his wife Esther. A ‘close up look’ at the inscription on my patriot’s Tombstone is very genealogically revealing: He didn’t tout his military service on his tombstone as other patriots did in the cemetery. . Genealogically, the stone says he is Twelfth generation from John Rogers the Martyr.”* Who was John Rogers the Martyr? Other than writer of the New Testament who was burned at a stake, was he Jewish, as suggested of a painting at Harvard University. He was a 7th day Baptist, attending religious services on Saturday and not Sunday. Coincidentally, my DNA indicates I was Jewish over 25 generations ago on my Y chromosome.
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