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Rogers family (251)
569. John Rogers. Born ca 1595 in England.100 John died on 3 Feb 1661 in Weymouth, MA.7 Buried in 1661 in Wanton-Rogers burying ground (Norwell).7
From Deane’s History of Scituate:6
“John Rogers came into Scituate with Rev. Mr. Witherell 1644, and from hence we conjecture that he was a descendant of the Martyr of Smithfield. Family tradition also asserts the same. .... His farm in Scituate was a half mile south of Stockbridge’s mill (now [1831] James Briggs’s, alias Clerk Briggs’s).” (Deane confused John with another John Rogers who married Ann Churchman.)
“John Roigers came into Scituate with the Rev. William Wetherell in 1644. He lived for a time in Scituate, but removed to the Marshfield side of North River in 1647.”7
It is said that he sailed from London to Barbados in 1635; the ship lof of Falcon lists Rogers Jo-- age 34.100
Check out John Rogers of Marshfield and some of his Descendants, by Josiah H. Drummond, West Hanover, Mass.: R.B. Ellis, 1898, 192 pgs.
John Roger’s will was dated 1 Feb 1660, probated 5 Jun 1661. It mentions his wife Frances; his sons John, Joseph, and Timothy; his daughters Ann Hudson, Mary, and Abigail; and his grandchildren George and John Russell; wife Frances executrix.
Will: WILL OF JOHN ROGERS, SR.
"John Rogers senr", of Marshfield, made his will 1 February, 1660.
Bequests were as follows:
To "my wife ffrancis Rogers all the land and housing on which I live with all the meddow adjoyning to the land unto the Creeke During the time of her life and att her Deceasing; to my son John Rogers ... And my son John Rogers Junr when hee or his heires Come to enjoy the said lands and housing; to pay his sister Ann hudson five pounds sterling; and to mary and abigaill Rogers ten pounds sterling apeece"
I give unto my son Josepth Rogers and Timothy Rogers all my land and meddow that lyeth on the other side of the Creeke lying easterly and this land to bee equally Devided according to quantitie Josepths land shall lye next to the land of Nathaneell Bosworth"
To "my son John Rogers all my Right and Interest in the land and housing that bee now liveth on ... the upper orchyard my wife shall have and enjoy the tearme of eight yeares"
To "my Daughter An ten shillinges; and to mary my Daughter one yearling; and to my Daughter Abigaill one yearling; and to my grandchild Gorg Russell one Cow Calfe;"
"The land that I have att Namassakeesett which John Hudson now lives on I give unto my grandchildren Gorge Russell and John Russell ... when these Children Come to the age of twenty and one years then to enjoy theire lands;"
my wife ffrancis Rogers to bee my ... exequitrix"
The witnesses were Anthony Eames, William Maycumber, Mark Eames and Richard Beare, the last signing by a mark.
The will "was exhibited to the Court held att Plymouth" 5 June; 1661, "on the oath of Ensigne Marke Eames;"
"The Inventory of the goods and Chattles of John Rogers senr of Marshfild late Deceased exhibited att the Court held att Plymouth the fift of June 1661 on the oath of ffrancis Rogers; Marshfeild in New Plymouth in America Anno 1661
(The Mayflower Descendant - Vol. 17, page 214 - Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories)
John married Frances [Rogers]. Frances died in 1687 in Scituate, MA.
Frances first married John Rogers, second Walter Briggs.
It is sometimes said that Frances was the daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Watson of Plymouth, MA, and Windsor, CT. Here’s what Anderson says about Robert Watson in The Great Migration Begins:5
“Various secondary sources claim a Robert Watson, immigrant of 1632 to Plymouth, as brother of JOHN WATSON of Roxbury and father of GEORGE WATSON of Plymouth and of several other later immigrants [ Windsor Hist 2:776; Bassett-Preston 311; Snow-Estes 1:162]. This family construct should be rejected totally, as there is no evidence in Plymouth or elsewhere in New England for such a Robert, or for any connection between John Watson and George Watson. An assignmnet of a servant by ‘Elizabeth Watson, widow, ... unto Thomas Watson,’ on 8 November 1638 [ PCR 1:102], is cited in partial support of this claim, but this record says nothing about a Robert, nor does it connect to records of the other Watson immigrants.”
Their children include:
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