Lt. Colonel James Rogers

Birth: Apr. 2, 1728 Dublin County Dublin, Ireland Death: Sep. 23, 1790 Napanee Lennox and Addington County Ontario, Canada

Rogers was born to James and Mary MacPhartridge Rogers in Ireland, they immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony around 1729. He served with his brother Major Robert Rogers during the French and Indian War. He then served as Loyalist leader during the American War of Independence.

During the revolutionary war he had served for five years as commandant of a corps known as the King's Rangers, which, during that time, formed part of the garrison of St. John's, Quebec. This post commended the northern outlet of the great waterway which connects the valley of the Hudson with that of the St. Lawrence. He settled with some two hundred of his disbanded soldiers upon the shores of the Bay of Quinte. " Township of Fredericksburgh, as well as a part of an adjoining Township,Adolphustown "

• ******************************************* James married Margaret McGregor on March 1760.

They had the following children:

David Rogers 7 Nov 1762 died on 2 Nov 1766

Mary Elinore Rogers born about 1763. died on 1 Dec 1793 married John Armstrong.

James McGregor Rogers 22 Nov 1764. died on 22 Dec 1841. married Mary Ann Allen

Mary Ann Rogers born about 1769 married John Peters Jr

David McGregor Rogers 23 Nov 1772. died in 1824 .married (1) Sarah Playter (2)Elizabeth Playter-Perry

Margaret Rogers 25 Mar 1774. died on 22 Aug 1866. married Aaron Greeley

• ************************************* References:

Descendants of James Jacob Rogers http://www.montalona.com/

History of Brome County, Quebec http://www.archive.org

Quebec Historical Corps http://reenacting.net/qhc/james_eng.html

http://www.fortat4.org/

Rogers Island Visitors Center http://www.rogersisland.org/Rogers%20Island.htm

The Loyalist Collection HARRIET IRVING LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK http://www.lib.unb.ca/collections/loyalist/seeOne.php?id=445&string=

From South Fredericksburgh Township Cemetery Transcriptions http://www.sfredheritage.on.ca

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=52176508

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Col. James. Rogers, of King's Rangers, died in Fredericksburgh, Sept., 1790, aged 63 years

LTC.James Rogers was an Irish-born soldier. He emigrated to America at a young age and became a frontiersman. He served with his brother Major Robert Rogers during the French and Indian War. He then served as Loyalist leader during the American War of Independence. Officer of regiment to be known as the King's Rangers and/or Rogers' Rangers

During the revolutionary war he had served for five years as commandant of a corps known as the King's Rangers, which, during that time, formed part of the garrison of St. John's, Quebec. This post commended the northern outlet of the great waterway which connects the valley of the Hudson with that of the St. Lawrence. He settled with some two hundred of his disbanded soldiers upon the shores of the Bay of Quinte. " Township of Fredericksburgh, as well as a part of an adjoining Township,Adolphustown "

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http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=52176508&ref=wvr

Member with his Brothers- Elite Special Forces Rogers Rangers Regiment.

Loyalists in Ontario, The Sons and Daughter of the American Loyalists of Upper Canada; William D Reid; Hunterdon House; Lambertville, New Jersey 1973 date of birth estatmated from age (63) at death

Rogers was born to James and Mary Rogers in Ireland, and they immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony around 1729. Robert Rogers was born in 1731 and a third brother Richard in 1733. During the French and Indian War, he served in Rogers' Rangers, a provincial Ranger Corps raised by his brother Robert Rogers.

French and Indian War He was with Robert in the Battle on Snowshoes in January 1757, the Siege of Louisbourg (1758) and the Battle of the Plains of Abraham (1759). In 1765, he was granted the township of Kent, a 26,000-acre (110 km2) parcel in Vermont later known as the townships of Londonderry and Windham.

American War of Independence In the American War of Independence, he commanded the 2nd Battalion of the King's Rangers, thereby forfeiting his lands in Vermont. In 1784, he led a party of about 300 disbanded King's Rangers and their families to the Third Township of Cataraqui, later known as the Township of Fredericksburgh, in Lennox County, Ontario, where they were granted land. Rogers, who first settled in Fredericksburgh, where he became lieutenant-colonel of the militia, lived for a time in Prince Edward County, Ontario but returned to Fredericksburgh before his death on September 23, 1790.

Vermont negotiations Between 1780 and 1783, Rogers was heavily involved in the negotiations with Ethan Allen and Thomas Chittenden to have Vermont come back under the British Crown. Rogers and Allen were both large land owners in Vermont, which had not been admitted to the newly formed United States because both New York and New Hampshire claimed it as their own, and declared independence in 1777. These negotiations resulted in Allen being accused of treason, but no formal charges were ever made.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Rogers_%28soldier%29

Date & Place of Birth : 2 April 1728, Londonderry, Ireland.

Settled before war : Londonderry, New Hampshire, then Kent, New Hampshire Grants (later the Townships of Londonderry and Windham, Vermont)

Among the memorial tablets on the walls of St. Alban's U.E.L. church at Adolphustown are two with the following inscriptions:

"Col. Jas. Rogers, of King's Rangers, died in Fredericksburgh, Sept., 1790, aged 63 years. "Col. Wm. Crawford, of Royal Rangers, died in Third Town, U.E.L."

It will be seen that, by the date of Col. Roger's death, he did not live long - about six years - after his settlement in Canada . He passed away in 1790.

In the old U.E.L. list preserved in the Crown Lands Department, in Toronto, are the following brief record: "Rogers, Col. James, Marysburgh and Sophiasburgh, S.G. Major, Commandant, Provision List (Government) 1786"