Joan Jackson

Born a slave to Maria, slave of James Rogers of New London. She was freed in 1701, but her freedom & ownership was disputed by Samuel & Elizabeth (Rogers) Beebe, who won the case. Joan's husband, John Jackson, and James Rogers son John tried to steal her back. "She was taken from me wrongfully.".

In 1716, now the slave of John Stone of Cambridge, Joan's husband brought suit against Stone in the Massachusetts court, and won his wife's freedom for good.

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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)

The inventory of James Rogers estate 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

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.

• The Rogerenes: Some Hitherto Unpublished Annals Belonging to the Colonial ... By John Rogers Bolles, Anna Bolles Williams Page 221
• Love of Freedom: Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England.  By Catherine Adams, Elizabeth H. Pleck. "Love of Freedom" page 132
• "The Jackson Family" Tapestry. Genealogical Publishing Com. Page 75.
  • John Jackson married Joan, the daughter of Maria, a deaf and dumb slave belonging to James Rogers of New London.
• Updated from Ancestry Genealogy via mother Maria by SmartCopy: Sep 28 2015, 1:23:11 UTC