Henry Rogers

http://archive.org/stream/genealogyofhaine00bald/genealogyofhaine00...

Interesting text. Suggests the Rogers/Rodgers sailed first to the Plymouth Colony, though I feel this is in error and that these Rogers' came to West Jersey directly. Contains a good deal of later information that is accurate:

Bradfords history tells of the arrival on the Mayflower in 1620 at Plymouth, Mass. of Thomas Rogers and his son Joseph. The other children and the wife of Thomas followed a year later. Thomas died in the first sickness. Joseph married and had six children, Sarah, Joseph, Thomas, Elizabeth, John, Mary, James and Hanna. He died at Eastham, Mass., in 1678. John was appointed administrator for Thomas's estate. Freeman's history of Cape Cod gives the history of John's family.
He signed an instrument for lot 32 at Burlington, N. J. on Sept. 9th, 1727 and his son William was given a commission as Lieutenant in the British Army in America by Viscount Cornbury Feb. 4th, 1705 at Fort Anne N. Y. It was his grandson Wm. Rogers HI who was the Revolutionary hero of the Rogers line. He was an ex- press rider, and despatch bearer in the war. Although he was a a Quaker he gave bountifully of his time and money to the cause of American liberty. He thwarted the attempt of the Hessian soldiers to destroy his grist mill which stood on his plantation between Mount Holly and Rancocas, N. J., bordered on the front by the shell road and at the back by Rancocas Creek. The place, is now known as the Mcllvaine Farm. Here were also his distillery for apple-jack and cherry bounce and the factory for making cement from oyster shells. The manor house built from bricks brought as ballast in the ships from England bore on its side elevation these letters and the date picked, out in a different shade of brick:

W. & M. William and Martha R Rogers.

It was destroyed by fire about 1900.

Lineage to prove S.A.R. status: https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/83628594