The ROGERS Family of Plymouth and Eastham

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First Generation

THOMAS ROGERS of Plymouth

Parents:

Thomas Rogers married Elizabeth Unknown.

Thomas Rogers came on the Mayflower with his son Joseph; the other children can afterwards. [Ref] He died in the first sickness. [Ref]

Children of Thomas Rogers:

1. Lieut. Joseph Rogers married Hannah Unknown.

A Mr. Rogers is on a 19 Dec 1648 list of residents of Ipswich who paid a tax to pay Maj. Daniel Denison (brother of Capt. George Denison) to be their leader. [Ref]

Second Generation

LIEUT. JOSEPH ROGERS of Plymouth

Parents: Thomas Rogers and Elizabeth Unknown

Joseph Rogers married Hannah Unknown.

Joseph came on the Mayflower with his father. [Ref] He was orphaned at age 17 when his parents died soon after arrival in New England. [Ref]

He received two lots in the 1623 Plymouth land division. [Ref] He was in lot 11 of the 22 May 1627 Plymouth cattle division. [Ref]

He is in the Duxbury section of the 1643 list of those between 16 and 60 able to bear arms in Plymouth Colony. [Ref]

Joseph was an inhabitant of Eastham on 22 May 1655. [Ref]

Children of Joseph Rogers and Hannah Unknown:

1. Sarah Rogers was born on 6 Aug 1633. [Ref, p. 5_1] She died young. [Ref, p. 5_1]
2. Joseph Rogers was born on 19 Jul 1635. [Ref, p. 5_1] He died on 27 Jan 1660/1 in Eastham. [Ref, 6;202][Ref][Ref] Crowell [Ref, p. 5_1] says that he died on "Christmas Day 1660" from a fall while wrestling with his friend Richard Hawes. [Ref, p. 5_1] He married Susannah Deane on 4 Apr 1660 in Eastham. [Ref][Ref says 4 Feb] She married second Stephen Snow [Ref, p. 11] on 13 Dec 1665 in Eastham. [Ref, 6;13]
3. Thomas Rogers was born on 29 Mar 1638 in Duxbury. He died on 16 Jun 1678. He married Elizabeth Snow.
4. Elizabeth Rogers was born on 29 Sep 1639. [Ref, p. 5_1] She married Jonathan Higgens on 9 Jan 1660/1 in Eastham. [Ref, 7;16][Ref] Jonathan was the son of Richard Higgens. [Ref, p. 5_1]
   some descendants of Elizabeth Rogers
5. John Rogers was born on 3 Apr 1642 in Sandwich. [Ref, p. 5_1]He died before 10 Mar 1724/5, when his widow Elizabeth died. [Ref] He married Elizabeth Twining on 19 Aug 1669. [Ref] Elizabeth was the daughter of William and Elizabeth (Deane) Twining. [Ref, p. 5_1] He had nine children. [Ref]
   John was an inhabitant of Eastham before 1675. [Ref]
   some descendants of John Rogers
6. Mary Rogers was born on 22 Sep 1644. [Ref, p. 5_1] She married John Phinney on 10 Aug 1664 in Barnstable. [Ref]
   some descendants of Mary Rogers
7. James Rogers was born on 18 Oct 1648. [Ref, p. 5_1] He died on 13 Apr 1678 in Eastham. [Ref, 6;203][Ref] He married Mary Paine [Ref, p. 5_1] on 11 Jan 1670 in Eastham. [Ref, 5;196][Ref]
   James Rogers was an inhabitant of Eastham in 1695. [Ref]
   some descendants of James Rogers
   
8. Hannah Rogers was born on 8 Aug 1652. [Ref, p. 5_1]
   

Third Generation

THOMAS ROGERS (1638 - 1678) of Eastham

Parents: Lieut. Joseph Rogers and Hannah Unknown [Ref, 1;134]

Thomas Rogers was born on 29 Mar 1638 [Ref, 1;134] in Duxbury. [Ref, p. 22] He died on 16 Jun 1678. [Ref, 1;134] He married Elizabeth Snow [Ref] on 13 Dec 1665 in Eastham. [Ref 6;14]

Thomas was an inhabitant of Eastham before 1675. [Ref]

Children of Thomas Rogers and Elizabeth Snow:

1. Elizabeth Rogers was born on 8 Oct 1666 in Eastham. [Ref 6;14]
2. Joseph Rogers was born on 1 Feb 1667 in Eastham. [Ref 6;14] married Prudence Unknown. [Ref, p. 136] She married second Machiel Atwood on 25 Oct 1700. [Ref, p. 136]
3. Hannah Rogers was born on 20 Feb 1669 in Eastham. She died on 18 Jul 1733 in Eastham. She married Amaziah Harding.
4. Thomas Rogers was born on 6 Mar 1670/1 in Eastham. [Ref 6;14] He died on 15 Mar 1670/1 in Eastham. [Ref 6;14]
5. Thomas Rogers was born on 6 May 1672 in Eastham. [Ref 6;14] He married Sarah Treat. [Ref][Ref, p. 5_1] Sarah was the daughter of Rev. Samuel Treat. [Ref, p. 5_1]
6. Eleazer Rogers was born on 3 Nov 1673 in Eastham. [Ref 6;14]
7. Nathaniel Rogers was born on 18 Jan 1675 in Eastham. [Ref 6;14]

Fourth Generation

HANNAH ROGERS (1669 - 1733)

Parents: Thomas Rogers and Elizabeth Snow [Ref 6;14]

Hannah Rogers was born on 20 Feb 1669 in Eastham. [Ref][Ref 6;14] She died on 18 Jul 1733 in Eastham. [Ref] She married Amaziah Harding. [Ref][Ref, p. 6]

On 18 July 1733 Amaziah Harding of Eastham beat his wife to death and attemped to argue that she had died of natural causes. [Ref] On 5 Jun 1734 Amaziah Harding was executed in Barnstable for the murder of his wife. [Ref]

References

Albright, Evan J., "Dead Men Walking: A Parade of Cape Cod Executions," Cape Cod Confidential, http://capecodconfidential.com/cccdeathpenalty011216.shtml.

Baird, Mary E. Harding, Our Harding family: A record of the family and descendants of Samuel Harding whose ancestor was Joseph Harding, son of John of England, and of Love Mayhew Harding, wife of Samuel Harding, whose ancestor was Thomas Mayhew, son of Joseph of England: with historical sketches, unknown, unknown, 1957.

Clark, Leon, History and Genealogy of the Mayflower Planters and First Comers to ye Olde Colonie, Washington, DC, Hills Pub. Co., c1936-c1941.

McPherson, Gladys Redfield, Ancestry of Addie Clark Harding: Daughter of Abner Clark Harding, Jr., and Maud McCain, Chicago, unknown, 196-?.

Smith, Leonard H. and Norma H. Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1993.

Torry, Clarence A, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.

Williams, Alicia Crane, "Stephen Wood alias Atwood of Eastham, Massachusetts," Mayflower Descendant 46, 1996, 131-136.

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