James Rogers

All of the following refers to John the son, and possibly his brother James, not the man (Hellfire Jack) in this profile.

https://www.songofml.com/john_james_rogers.htm (dead link)

John [or] James Rogers was a very prominent figure among the Cherokee. He gave them much help and advice. You will find many letters, written by him to the government. He once paid the ransom, demanded for a young boy named Jennings and returned him to his family. John Rogers was often a delegate to Washington, D.C., a Councilman of outstanding ability; and his influence was manifested then and yet today.

John Rogers lived about twelve miles south of Calhoun, Tennessee, on the Hiwassee River. He had boats plying on both the Hiwassee and Tennessee Rivers. He was a man of wealth. Captain John must have loved to entertain, for in the minutes of the mission, this is mentioned. The Christmas of 1806 he gave such a large party - they tell what his guests consumed - not how many were present as we do today; saying, the guests consumed a number of beeves, two barrels of flour, and two barrels of rum, and their stock ate two stacks of hay and one hundred bushels of corn. At one time there were two hundred present. Nancy Vann, a guest, was reported as saying, "I never had such a good time in all of my life.".

In 1818 Captain John Rogers came to western Arkansas from his home, Ross Landing, on the Tennessee River near Lookout Mountain. Leaving there in 1817. It is interesting to know how the government had provided the Indians transportation to the west. A boat was constructed to be sixty feet long and twelve feet wide, two thirds of it were to be covered, two side oars and a steering oar, they were called Keel Boats. Each was given a gun, a kettle, a beaver trap and some ammunition. Often these boats fell apart on the rocky shoals of the Tennessee. He and thirty-one members of his party settled at Big Mulberry Bend, about twenty miles south of the present Ft. Smith. Captain John Rogers Sr. is buried there.

From this marriage [which marriage?] comes three of the Cherokee Chiefs of Oklahoma; namely, Chief John Rogers, Jr. born 1779 Chief of the Western Cherokees and Grand Saline; Judge Charles Coody Rogers and Chief William Charles Rogers, last Chief of the Cherokee Nation.

John Rogers married Alsey Vann (also known as Anna Pruitt) and their only child, Polly Ann, born 1787, married Samuel Dawson, a Scotch-Irish. They were the parents to the well-known Dawson families of Oklahoma. F. M. or Bud Dawson was one of the leading ones in establishing the rights of citizenship of a large family, who were placed on the Cherokee rolls by the Dawes Commission. Alsey was Cherokee.

William Vann's genealogy "Vann Generations with Cherokee Origins".

Source: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Rogers-3886
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