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ROGERS • Som.E of the Descendants of GILES ROGERS an Immigrant to Virginia in 1664 ROGERS • Som.e of the Descendants of GILES ROGERS An Immigrant to Virginia in 1664 Including Descendants of William Rogers of Kentucky, who married Ann Johnson; Joseph Hale Rogers of Bryan's Station, Kentucky; Giles Rogers, who married Sarah Iverson Lewis, and his daughter Frances, who married Samuel Twyman; George Rogers, who married Frances Holmes Pollard; Ann Rogers, who married John Clark ( the parents of George Rogers Clark); their son, Governor William Clark of Missouri, and their daughter Elizabeth Clark, who married Lt. Col. Richard Clough Anderson; Byrd Rogers, who married, first, Mary and, second, Martha Trice and Rachel Rogers, the second wife of Donald Robertson • Including the family names of Barksdale, Croghan, Gatewood, George, Gwathmey, O'Fallon, Temple, Thruston, Tyler, Underwood, etc. • • COMPILED AS THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS A CHART BY HOPEWELL L. ROGERS Member of the Filson Club, Louisville, Kentucky 1940 ROGERS • Som.e of the Descendants of GILES ROGERS An Immigrant to Virginia in 1664 ers INTRODUCTION The "chart" herewith,showing many of the descendants of Giles Rogers, supposed to have been born 1643/5,and, according to John Cox Underwood's Book,"The Rogers Family in.America," a descendant of John Rogers of Deretund, proto martyr {the line being Giles, John, Thomas, Matthew, Bernard, John), is in reali~y a questionnaire made primarily to send to those who :furnished much of the information upon which it is based. Some of the material admittedly has little proof to back it up, but, in spite of its many errors, I hope it is sufficiently correct to be of interest and value to many and t~at those interested will send me additions and corrections,giving in all cases, however, their authority or the source of their infor­ mation. In many cases it has been necessary to choose between "facts" from various sources and there may be some hesitation in discarding information from an apparently good authority for that where the source is not given. "Cavaliers and Pioneers", by Nugent, states that a Giles Rogers was transported from England to Virginia about 1664 and tradition states that, having returned to England, he sailed again in 1686 wi'th his family and at that time settled in Virgini,: ,. It will be apparent that much of the information is from the above book of Mr. Under­ wood and from Mrs.J. Russell Sampson's "Kith and Kin". Some is from the James Swift Rogers' papers in the New England Genealogical Society; the books by Kemper; from "Donald Robertson", by Wm. Kyle Anderson; "Conquest of the Northwest", by English; "The History of Caroline County,n by Wingfield; the valuable records of Mr. Rogers Clark Ballard Thruston of Louis­ ville and the memoranda of the late Dr. Joseph G. Rogers of Logansport, Indiana. A large part of the matter was obtained by investigation in the Wisconsin Historical Society, the New York Genealogical and Historical Society, Library of Congress, Harvard University Library, New York Public Library, Newberry Library of Chicago, University of Chicago Library and particularly the Filson Club of Louisville, Kentucky. Page Five Much information previously published on this family is based on a manuscript written about i840 by Ed.mania T. Rogers, for herself or as amanuensis for her father, Edmund Rogers (1762-1842) (George, John, Giles). Much of the material, however,was furnished by the per­ sons whose lines were shown in the chart. In several cases I feel sure that it is not cor­ rect, but it is included with the hope that others may be better able to prove or disprove the lines as they are set forth. The numbering on the chart is on the basis of Number 1, the first figure in each num­ ber, representing the immigrant, Giles Rogers; the second figure representing which child of the said Giles, the third, which grandchild, child of the indicated child, etc. Number 13323, Lucy Booton, is the third child of 1332, Ann Rogers; who was the second child of 133, Joseph Rogers; who in turn was (or is here assumed to be) the third child of Peter Rogers, third child of the immigrant, Giles Rogers (No. 1). Where there were more than nine children, letters of the alphabet have been used in place of figures, using the tenth letter of the alphabet, j, for the tenth child, k~ for ,the eleventh child, etc. This has answered so far,as the names of the thirty-one children of one member of the family are not at present known to the writer. Although such a chart may be interesting to many, the large number of names included makes it primarily a book of reference. It is therefore not my intention to republish the chart, but I hope to incorporate the additions and corrections in an "Index" made up of biographical-genealogical notes on loose-leaf sheets. This Biographical-Genealogical "Index", now in the Filson Club of Louisville, Kentucky, starts with thirty Aluminum "three-post" binders, each containing about 700 thin sheets 8½x5½ inches in size, on which are notes on Kentuckians,each under the name of some individ­ ual and all arranged alphabetically. Because of the migration of persons from Virginia to Kentucky and f'rom Kentucky to Mis­ souri, the records contain many notes on Virginians and Missourians, besides many of persons in other localities - more particularly the Southern States - believed to be ancestors or descendants of Kentuckians. It contains several thousand of these biographical sketches, several hundred of them of :persons included in this chart. Each memorandum to be incorporated in this Filson Club "Index" should be as complete a record of' a head of' a f'amily as can be obtained, except of those Kentuckians, who, because or their prominence, have very complete biographies already in existence. The names of' the person or persons married and their parents, f'ollowed in each case by the children of each marriage, should appear at the end of' the biography. Where separate biographical sketches are made for each person, there should be only one copy ror each ~o be f'iled under the name of such person, but where only one sketch is made for a family, there should be at least suf'ficient copies of such biography to f'ile one under the name of' the head of the family (the subject of the biography), one under the name of his mother, and where there is no further information of the wife's family and no biographical sketch of' the wife, one under the name of his wife. Any additional sheets can be filed under the name of the wife's mother, and, where there is no further information about the children, (except where it is known that they are not heads or f'am.ilies), additional sheets can be used for them. Do not include more than generally appears in biographies in "Who's Who". Where there is more information, leave marks to indicate the omissions. On the theory that those children who are heads off'amilies will have their own biogra­ phies, in their cases only enough information is given to identify them - usually the date of birth and name of the person married. In cases of children not heads of families,slightly more information is given, both as amatter of identification and,to some extent, because it is the only record of' such :persons. The biographies are typed or written in a column four inches wide and not more than seven and one-half' inches long, leaving a margin on the binding e1ge or one and one-quarter inches and on the outside edge of one-quarter inch. The sheets used in this "Index" are 8½x5½ inches in size and, in order to conserve space, of a very thin :paper, such as 25x28-23 lbs. "Fidelity" glazed onion skin for writing on one side only,and 25x28-35 lbs. for use on both sides. Whatman's English Hand Made paper of the lightest weight is probably the best to use, but a paper with a smooth or· glazed rinish and not opaque, such as Swatbmore ,,Alexander Bond", is necessary when sheets are printed and half-tones are used. The sheets must be punched or perforated with three holes 7/32 inches in diameter. The center of the top hole one and one-half inches from the top of the sheet, and the holes two and three-fourth inches apart, CENTER to CENTER. The "NEAR" EDGES OF THE HOLES MUST BE EXACTLY 5-1/8 INCHES FROM THE EDGE OF THE SHEET. This is absolutely essential if the sheets are to fit properly into the Filson Club binders. Standard binders are made that will take these sheets, but standard sheets are not punched with the necessary 5-1/8 inches between the holes and the outside edge. (Following is one printed biographical sketch,one typed and one in longhand which show the style to be used. Page Six JOHN CLARK (9 October, 0. S., 1724/5-1799), son of Jonathan ancl Elizabeth (Wilson) Clark, was probably born in King and Queen County, Virginia. For a century the family and historians have been trying to determine what, if any, military service he rendered in either Colonial or Revolutionary days. Mr. Thomas H. Warner found the following entry on a loose page numbered 53 in a volume of Caroline County Order Books containing the minutes of the proceedings of a Court held for Caroline County in February, 1764. "John Broaddus, John Clark, Richard Allcock, produced 0 Commissions from under the hand and Seal of his Honour the Governour to be Lieutenants, who took the oaths appointed to be taken by Act of Parliament, Read and Subscribed the Test;" There were several persons named John Clark in Caroline County at that time and whilst probably this Lieutenant was this John Clark, there is no positive proof of it.
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