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About Adam Rogers
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you descend from a James Rogers of Newport, Rhode Island, who writers claim to be either the father or a first cousin of John. He and his brother James are the founders of the Rogerenes, the sect I mentioned earlier. It is John who is thought to have fathered Adam Rogers, the mulatto. In fact, the arduous and relentless battle they waged over the freedom of Joan, a former Negro servant of theirs, and the incident that marks them as the first political agitators against slavery, might well have been prompted by the possibility that this woman was Adam's mother. We know, for instance, that John's wife divorced him in 1678, eight years after their marriage. Interestingly enough, this woman, Elizabeth Griswold, of the same stock as the two Connecticut governors with this surname, took as her third husband, Matthew Beckwith, another of your relatives on the Minor side. Since it was another decade before John Rogers fell in love with and married a white servant, Adam could well have been the result of the rather understandable inability of this otherwise admirable individual to live up to his often declared resolution that he would never re-marry but patiently wait for his wife.
In his struggle to obtain Joan's freedom John Rogers was jailed from September 25th, 1711 until March 25th of the following year. He had aided and abetted John Jackson, a freedman in the abduction of Joan, his wife, from Samuel Beebe, who claimed that he had inherited her from his mother in law, James Rogers' wife. Incidentally, Mary, Samuel's mother, was none other than the daughter of William Keeney, once master of the Hopewell, a ship which had been one third owned by Sebastian Keene, a free black from Massachusetts who later moved to Virginia.
Again, why the Rogers history could be such an important one is the fact that, except for the scant references to them in the few local histories of New London, Connecticut or the genealogies published (usually privately) by their descendants, scholars in African American history seem totally unaware of the landmark efforts of this family against slavery. The reason being, more than likely, that since the authors of what precious little had been written were white, they were more taken by the stance this group had so defiantly taken, not only against religious orthodoxy, but against government authority, as well.
The mulatto, Adam Rogers, wed Katherine Jones, a white, in 1702. Interestingly enough, Katherine had already borne a child out of wedlock for the John Jackson mentioned above. Her sister married Isaac Fox, a friend of the Rogers clan. In turn, a son of theirs married his first cousin, one of Adam's daughters. Ironically, two of Adam's great grandchildren would marry into the Beebe family, the same with which Adam's father had fought so relentlessly to obtain the freedom of Joan.
For the time being, however, it is the line from Adam, through his daughter, Katherine that has proven so historically rich. According to some writers, her husband, James Merritt, was of Huguenot parentage
of New London, Conn.
- John Rogers, Jr Find A Grave Memorial# 52287760
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The inventory of James Rogersestate contains the following items: "His lands in Goshen, 13 akers in another field, 33 akers improved land, 10 acres of fenced land, 150 more acres of fenced land, 376 acres lying in the Common, a little island, one copper kettle, one brass kettle, one iron kettle, 3 iron potts, one of them broken, three small puter platters, three basons, three plates, one feather bed, and furniture, one other bed and bedding and bedstead, chests, chairs, wooden ware. Husbandry tables, two axes, one pair of plows, harrow, scythe, cartwheels, house and bar, Indian servant and his wife, a negro woman, Adam, a Molotta Servant, a negro woman deaf and dumb, one ox, six cowes, two steers, three yearlings, two heifers, two years old, two other heifer one year old, one bull one year old, six cattle one year old in the spring, one horse, one mare, 44 sheep, two sows, nine shoates ...
From DNA shows Adam Rogers heritage 2005
Here are the results of recent DNA testing regarding one line of descendants from James Rogers of New London.This deals with the ancestry of Adam Rogers, a mulatto slave in the shared household of James Rogers and his son John Rogers of New London, CT.This line was not covered in James Swift Rogers' 1902 genealogy of the descendants of James, who has been considered a regional patriarch.
I have documented my surname line back to Adam.(How many can say THAT??? ) The puzzle for 300 years has been who his father might have been.Not a lot of records are available for early slave ancestry.
DNA testing was done through "Family Tree DNA," at their group rate due to the presence of an associated Rogers surname study.
On 22 Sept 2005 I was notified of both a 12 point and a 25 point Y-marker match between my DNA sample and that of Dwight Rogers, a known direct male descendant of James Rogers of New London. He is part of the "Nova Scotia" branch descended via Stephen, listed in the 4th Generation in James Swift Rogers' 1902 genealogy of "James Rogers of New London and his Descendants."
The DNA results indicate a 99.9% probability of us sharing a common Rogers ancestor.For the descendants of Adam Rogers of New London, CT, we now have a combination of genetic and documentary evidence that a member of the family of James Rogers of New London,was the father of Adam the mulatto.
I was provided Dwight's documented lineage as follows: Dwight Leroy Rogers10, Joseph 'Jay' Albert Rogers9, Joseph Henry Rogers8, James Moore Rogers7, James Rogers6, Lemuel Rogers5, Stephen Rogers4, Jonathan Rogers3, Joseph Rogers2, James Rogers1 of New London, CT.
My lineage has been documented as follows:
- James Allen Rogers, b 1949, at Denver, CO
- Will Alden Rogers, b 1918, Davenport, IA
- Clarence Alden Rogers, b 1888, Burlington, IA
- Roswell Noyes Rogers, b 1848, Geauga County, OH
- Joseph Noyes L. Rogers, b 1811, East Haddam, CT
- Roswell Rogers, b 1764, of East Haddam CT
- John Rogers, b 1734, of East Haddam CT
- John Rogers, the cooper, b 1704 at New London, CT, and of Middletown, CT
- Adam Rogers, the mulatto, b ca 1670, of New London, CT
- John Rogers, the cooper, b 1704 at New London, CT, and of Middletown, CT
- John Rogers, b 1734, of East Haddam CT
- Roswell Rogers, b 1764, of East Haddam CT
- Will Alden Rogers, b 1918, Davenport, IA
Adam was initially a slave (later freed) in the household of James Rogers of New London and his son John Rogers, the Rogerene.John was born 1648.
Dr. Benjamin Trumbull, in his 1898 "Complete History of Connecticut, Civil and Ecclesiastical ...," disparaged John Rogers the Rogerene for having in his early days (before John's religious conversion) bedded with at least one ofthe family's slaves."When he had occasion, he took to his bed a maid whom he had purchased, and after she had borne him two children, he put her away."(Page 20)
This possibility regarding Adam's parentage was echoed in George Waller's monograph, "Connecticut Genealogies; 1: Adam and Katherine Rogers of New London, Ct...," available in the RootsWeb Archives for New London, CT.
So, for more than 300 years suspicions and allegations have been that John Rogers the Rogerene fathered Adam Rogers the mulatto.John was divorced in 1676 by his wife for an unspecified act that John did BEFORE his marriage.Adam is believed to have been born ca 1670, and it has been rumored that John Rogers was the father.The DNA resultslend strong circumstantial evidence to substantiate those rumors.
The other possible fathers of Adam would be the patriarch James himself or James' sons Samuel (b ca 1640), Joseph (b 1646), James (b 1652), or Jonathan (b 1655).Children of these brothers would have been too young to have fathered Adam around 1670.Additionally, Jonathan(2) would have only been about 15 at the estimated date of Adam's birth.He may be the weakest alternative for parentage among the four brothers of John.
- Updated from Ancestry Genealogy via mother Maria by SmartCopy: Sep 28 2015, 1:23:11 UTC
Not a known child of Mary Jones
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Adam Rogers's Timeline
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1670
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New London, New London County, Connecticut Colony
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October 13, 1704
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East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut
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March 29, 1708
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N London, New London, Connecticut, United States
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May 15, 1711
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New London, New London, Connecticut, United States
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November 1746
Age 76
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Colchester, New London County, Connecticut Colony
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