Ref:

(1) Maine Provincial and Court Records- Vol.1, p.146
(2) Ibid- p.164; The Hanscom Family Newsletter- Issue No. 15 (June 1989),, pp.3-5

Genealogical Dictionary of Maine & New Hampshire- p593
Pioneers of Maine & New Hampshire- p.177
Old Kittery and Her Families- Everett S. Stackpole, pp.95-7, 705
A Record of the Ancestors and Descendants of Stephen Chase Hanscom- Lawrence Hanscom, p.29

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2I. RICHARD (GEORGE 1)

b.c.1638
m.1. HESTER ______ (b.c.1638)
   2. Sarah Libby (m.1. Robert Tidy, 3. Christopher Banfield)
d.c.1701
will 11 Jan. 1700/1, inv. 28 Jan. 1701/2

Richard was a ships carpenter. Since he lived on George's homestead he is presumed to be his son, it being granted to him in 1698. Richard took the oath of allegience to Massachusetts 9 July 1669. His wife Hester was in court with a long list of Kittery offenders in 1675.

Map of Kittery- Lower Parish- from Stackpole's Old Kittery And Her Families

"I Richard Rogers of Kittery... ordaine this to be my last Will and Testament...

Item I Give and bequeath unto my Daughter Rebekah ten pounds in Cattle or other Merchantable pay to be paid by my Executx ye one halfe at ye day of her Marriage or one year after my Decease & ye other half in Some convenient time afterr as my Executx candoe it with convenience.

Item I doe give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Sarah two Cows and eight Sheep and all the goods or houshold stuff which she brought with her, that is one Small ffeatherbed one rugg, two Iron pots one Iron Kettle that is if She happen to Marry or to remove from my Son John Rogers, but if She Se cause to continue and be assisting unto my sd Son then my will is that my Sd Son Shall provide for her & allow her a comfortable Maintenance out of ye income of my Estate during her naturall life or Soe long as She Shall Se cause to continue ( ) him my Sd Son

Item I give and bequeath unto my Son in Law (his step- son) John Tydie, two steers of about three years old if he continue with his mother and my sd Son John he arrive at ye age of one & twenty years

Item I doe give and bequeath unto my beloved & only Son John Rogers all my whole Estate both of Lands, Cattle houses houshold Stuff &c willing him to pay Such Legacies as are before mentioned. And I doe by these prests make and Appoint my sd wife and Son John to be my Esecutr of this my last will and Testamt Requesting my Loving & much Esteemed friend Ensign John Leigton & my Son in Law Thomas Hanscome to be my overseers... I have hereunto Set my hand & Seal this 11 of January 1700. Richard Rogers

Signed Sealed & declared in prests of us Grace Bamfield, Hannah Tydy, Jos: Hamond"

Richard Rogers' Will

"An Inventory of ye Estate Vizt ye goods Chattells & Lands of Richard Rogers late of Kittery Deceased Apprized by us under written this 28th day of Janry 1701/2 as followeth:

� s d

To his wareing Cloths & Rideing horse the Sadle & bridle 006:00:00
To his Dwelling house out houses orchards & lands 215:00:00
To: 2: oxen 4 Cows 12 Sheep 4 Swine 3 Steers 2 years old 1: 3 year old 1: 2 year old & 1 yearling 2: 3 year old Stears 048:00:00
To yoaks Chains Rought Cart Axes hoes & other Iron tools 008:38:00
To one fetherbed Bolster & Pillows 3 Blankets &c 2 ruggs with a Sute of Curtains & vallens & bedsteed 008:00:00
To one Ditto bolster & Pillows wth 2 Blankets & 2 rugg all old wth ye bedsteed 003:00:00
To one Small Do and a rugg 002:10:00
To two Iron potts & one Small Ditto wth a Small Iron Kettle & 2 pair of Pothooks a tramell & Spitt 002:00:00
To a Copper Kettle a warming pan a frying pan & a pair of fire tongs wth a box all at

001:17:00

To arms & amunicon 002:00:00
To Pewter & vessells of wood 002:05:00
To one table: 7: Chairs 2 Chests one table cloth & Sheet all old 001:20:00
To Peas Barley Indian corn & malt 009:20:00
To meal 005:00:00
To money Due from Richard King 003:00:00
To fowls, a Canoo & a grinding Stone 002:16:00
To: 3: Reaphooks: 2: baggs a pair of Woll cards & other triffles 000:15:00
To Books & Some Salt a Wolling whele & linen Do 000:15:00
To 3s: 6d: due from Daniel ffogg 000:03:06
To 1: 6 due from John Oliver 000:01:06

_________

Toatell 315:16:00

Taken p us ye day & year above written
Jos: Hamond, Jos Hill, Richard King"(1)

Inventory of Richard Rogers' Estate

Issue-

Ref:

(1) York Probate- No. 16300

Genealogical Dictionary of Maine & New Hampshire- pp. 593-4
Old Kittery and Her Families- Everett S. Stackpole- p.705
A Record of the Ancestors and Descendants of Stephen Chase Hanscom- Lawrence Hanscom, p. 29

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1. WILLIAM

b.c.1510
m. JOAN ______
will 20 Apr. 1553 Watford, Northamptonshire

St. Peter & Paul church- Watford

In the name of god Amen in the yeare of or lord god 1553 and in ye VIIth yeare of the Reynge of oure sovergne lord Edward ye sixth... The XXth day of Aprill I Willm Rogs of Watford sycke in body and hole in mynde do maike this my last will and testament in manr and forme folowyng ffirst I bequeath my soule to almighty god and his blyssyd mother ye virgin Mary and to all ye heavenly company and my body to be buried in ye chyrche yard of Watford

Item I bequethe the mother church of Peterborough ii to ye poore mans boxe ii

Item I give to my chyldn that I have which are seven in number xls apece and one to be Anothers hayer and thaye to resave (receive) theyre pts at ye age of xvi years

Item I give Edward my sone a new brasse pott beside his part aforenamyd

Item I maike Jone my wyffe my sole executrix to despose ye residue of my goods to gods pleasure... and I maike my brother Ryc (Richard) Nicholas Hawell and Thomas Sabyn and alijs

proved 19 May 1553(1)

Issue-

Ref:

(1) Archdeaconry of Northampton- M:30

The English Ancestry of the Pilgrim Thomas Rogers and His Wife Alice (Cosford) Rogers- Clifford Stott, "The Genealogist"- Vol. X, No. 2- pp. 1-11

m. ELEANOR ______ (m.2. 4 July 1586 Watford, William Lyne (will 30 Mar-28 Apr. 1598, bur. 16 Apr. 1598 Long Buckby), bur. 23 May 1607 Long Buckby, Northampton)
will 13 Aug. 1585 Watford, Northampton
bur. 14 Aug. 1585 Watford

In Dei Nomine Amen the XIIIth day of August Anno dom 1585 I willm Rogers of Watford in the county of Northton husbandman sicke in body but of whole and pfecte memory do make and ordeyne this my last will and testament in maner and form following first I bequeathe my soule into the hands of Almight god my make and to Jesus Christ my redeemer and to the hold ghost my sanctyfyer and my body to be buryed in the churchyard of Watford aforesaid

Item I give and bequeath unto Thomas Rogers my eldest sonne one messuage with a little peece of ground joining to the same on the backside commonly called the cote and one quarter of land being in the neyther end field of Watford with all the appurtenances there unto belonging to enter upon the same messuage and quarter of land with appurtenances at twenty one years of his age and not before in the meantime my wife to have the occupation of it

Item I give unto the same Thomas Rogers one gray colte and my beest kine to chuse the same at holy roodes of day commonly called thenvention of the holly crosse nex ensuing the date hereof

Item I give and bequeath unto the same Elizabeth Rogers my daughter one cowe and one lambe to be delivered unto hir at thenvention of the holy crosse next come twelve moneth which shalbe in the yeare of our lord god 1587

Item I give and bequeath unto Willm Rogers my sonne ten pounds of lawful Englishe money to be payed unto him at eighteen years of his age

Item I give unto the foresaid Willm Rogers my sonne the lease of one messuage or tenement wheron I now dwell and one halfe yard land unto the same belonging with all those pastures medowes feeding commons with all the appurtenances unto the same belonging lying in th towne or of field or fields of Watford aforesaid to enter upon the foresaid messuage half yard land with the appurtenances etc after the decease of Ellenor Rogers my wife at the endy of hir naturrall lyfe in the meantime the foresaid Ellenor to have and enjoy the messuage halfe yard land with the appurtenances in as ample and large maner as is before specyfyed

Item I give unto the sayd Willm Rogers my sonne three hyves commonly called his owne Provided always that yf it happen any of my foresaid children to decease before terme or tyme specyfiyed or abouve specyfyed for payment of delivery of all and every of the forsaid porsions or legacyes that then they survivors or longer liver or livers to have the legacyes of the deceased equally devided ajoongest and yf it happen all save one to decease then he or she to have and enjoy all the whole legacyes of the deceased And yf it happa my children aforsyd to decease before the termes aforesaid then the legacyes to remayne with myne executrix

Item I give and bequeath to Elizabeth Cole my sister xii and to either of hir children iiii a peece

Item I give unto Willm Garle the sonne of Alexander Garle iii

All the rest of my goods chattels moveable and unmoveable [ ] unbequeathed my debts discharged I give unto Ellinor Rogers my wyfe who I make my whole and sole executrix to fulfill this my last will and testament And I desire Robt Butler and Edward Rogers my brother to my overseers

Made in the psence of Robt Butler Robt Maddocke of Watford with others.

Proved 9 May 1586

Inventory £42/19/2(1)

"Thenvention of the holy crosse" mentioned in the will is celebrated on 3 May and commemorates Empress Helena's discovery of the True Cross in Palestine in the year 376.

Issue-

Ref:

(1) Archdeaconry of Northampton- V:214.22.R.L

The English Ancestry of the Pilgrim Thomas Rogers and His Wife Alice (Cosford) Rogers- Clifford Stott, "The Genealogist"- Vol. X, No. 2- pp. 1-11

b.c.1572 Watford, Northamptonshire
m. 24 Oct. 1597 Watford, ALICE COSFORD (bpt. 10 May 1573 Watford), d. of George Cosford
d. 1621 Plymouth

Signing of the Mayflower Compact

On 25 June 1618 Thomas became a citizen of Leiden and was vouched for by William Jepson, formerly of Worksop, Nottinghamshire, and Roger Wilson, formerly of Sandwich, Kent. Thomas had purchased his house in Leiden 22 Feb. 1617 from a baker, Jan Bloemsaet and Thomas had sued Blomsaet and his bondsman Gerret Gerritsz 22 Feb. 1619 to release a lien on the house. The house sold for 475 guilders, 325 due in cash upon the sale and 150 to be paid on May Day, 1617.(1) On 1 Apr. 1620 Thomas sold his Leiden house on the Barbarasteeg for 300 guilders to Mordecai Cohen in preparation for his journey to New England.(2) Bradford states in his history that on board the Mayflower were "Thomas Rogers and Joseph his son; his other children came afterwards......Thomas Rogers died in the first sickness but his son Joseph is still living (1650) and is married and hath six children. The rest of Thomas Rogers' [children] came over and are married and have many children." Thomas was one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact. He did not survive the first winter, but his son Joseph, like so many of the children, did survive. Bradford's statement implies that several of Thomas' children came over, however, other than Joseph and John it is not known for certain who they were. It is possible that Elizabeth married Samuel Eddy as he was granted land at Plymouth on 3 June 1662 reserved for "the firstborn children" of the colony or their parents and as he did not qualify on either count it is possible if not probable that his wife Elizabeth was Thomas' daughter.(3) It is also possible that the Elizabeth Rogers who married Robert Rodway in 1635 in Watford is Thomas' daughter who had returned to Watford from Leiden to live with relatives.

From the 1622 poll tax from Leiden in the Over't Hoff Quarter, in a household of Anthony Clements with other Pilgrim families in St. Peter's Churchyard west-side, were "Jan Thomasz, orphan from England without means; Elsgen (Alice) Rogiers, widow of Thonis Rogiers, an English woman in the back part of the house or in the kitchen; and Lysbeth (Elizabeth) and Grietgen (Margaret) her children, poor people." In the Dutch patronymic system Jan Thomasz means, John, son of Thomas. The term "orphan" meant that either one or both parents had died.(4)

In the division of land in 1623 in Plymouth, Thomas' son Joseph received two acres, one for himself and one on behalf of his late father. Joseph may have been living with Gov. Bradford as he was in that group for the division of cattle in 1627.

The Mayflower Compact

"In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord, King James, by the Grace of God, of England, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, e&. Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia; do by these presents, solemnly and mutually in the Presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid; And by Virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the General good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord, King James of England, France and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini, 1620."

Ref:

(1) The Pilgrims and Other English in Leiden Records: Some New Pilgrim Documents- Jeremy Bangs, NEHGR- Vol. 142 (1989), p. 207
(2) The England and Holland of the Pilgrims- Henry Martyn Dexter, Morton Dexter, Baltimore, 1978- pp. 572-3, 632
(3) Plymouth Colony: Its History & People- Eugene Stratton, Salt Lake City, 1986- pp. 287-8
(4) Mayflower Passengers Turner and Rogers: Probable Identification of Additional Children- Robert Wakefield, TAG- Vol. 52, pp. 110-3

English Ancestry of the Pilgrim Thomas Rogers and His Wife Alice (Cosford) Rogers- Clifford Stott, in "The Genealogist"- Vol. X, No. 2 (1989)
Mayflower Families Throught Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts December 1620: Family of Thomas Rogers- Alice Westgate, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2000- pp. 1-2

bpt. 23 Jan. 1602/3 Watford, Northamptonshire
m. HANNAH ______
d. Jan. 1678 Eastham
bur. Old Cove Burial Ground

The Mayflower II at Plymouth Harbor

Joseph and his father were part of the Leiden congregation and came to Plymouth on the Mayflower along with his father. In the first division in 1623 Joseph obtained two acres of land on "the South side of the brooke to the baywards".(1) In 1627 he shared a heifer "of the last yeare" from the "Greate white back cow that was brought over in the Ann" with William Bradford, Thomas Cushman, William Latham, Mannasses Kempton, Julian Kempton and the Morton family. Joseph also shared two nanny goats with them.(2) He was involved in a civil case in 1632/3. Evidently Edward Doty had not carried through on a contract "wherein six pigges of five weeks old were due unto the plaintiff" and Joseph received four bushels of corn in compensation.(3)

On 2 Mar. 1635/6 he was granted permission to run "a sufficient ferry" across the Jones River near his home for which he charged a penny per passenger.(4) On 14 Mar. he, Edward Doty, Thomas Prence and Thomas Cushman were assigned to mow hay along the Jones River.(5)

By 1639 he had moved to Duxbury and was on the highway commission there in 1638-9 and again 20 Aug. 1644. He was granted 60 acres in 1638 "lying about a mile and a half from the brooke beyond Mr Bradford farme, upon Mattachusetts Payth, on the west side thereof" and an additional 50 acres in 1640.(6) He was sworn in as constable for Duxbury on 2 June 1640.(7) He was listed as being from "Duxborrow" in a 1646 land sale, however, he must have moved soon after that as he was a lieutenant in the militia for Nauset (which became Eastham) in 1647 an office he held until 1661 and then from 1664 until his death.(8) He also served on the Council of War 2 Oct. 1658.(10) He probably lived with Beriah Higgins in Eastham as in his will he states that he "lived with him a Greate while".

He purchased 6 1/2 acres from the Potonumaquall tribe in Eastham in 1658.(9) He bought 40 acres of upland "Called the Barly necke" from Manasses Kempton in 1662.(12) In 1665 he had rights to 100 acres of land that William Nickerson had illegally purchased from the Indians.(14) The court gave him liberty in 1670 to buy the land from the Indians living near Eastham at a place called Naamcoyicke.(16) Joseph was involved in community land transactions and was a trustee of a piece of land in Duxbury in Oct. 1646. In 1664 he was authorized to survey a piece of land from Bridgewater to the Bay line with Josias Cooke, Gyles Hopkins, Henry Sampson and Experience Mitchell.(13) He served as a selectman with Nicholas Snow, Daniel Cole and Josias Cooke in 1670.(15)

Joseph's oldest son, Joseph Jr., suffered from "a most deadly fall" on 25 Dec. 1660 and died two days later. John Hawes was indicted for "violently and by force of armes" killing Joseph, however, Howes was found not guilty of the crime on 5 Mar. 1660/1. The two might have been wrestling when Joseph suffered his fatal injury.(11)

I Joseph Rogers senior: of Eastham of Good understanding and perfect memory being weake in body; and not knowing the the day of my departure out of this life, doe thinke meet to Leave this as my Last will and Testament.

Impr: I Commend my soule to God that Gave it: whoe is my God, and father in Jesus Christ, and my body to the earth by decent buriall;

firstly and concerning my temporall estate that God hath possessed me off; I doe make my son Thomas Rogers whole and sole executor which I will should be disposed of as followeth:

Impr I doe Give unto my Loveing Son James Rogers and his heires Lawfully begotten of his body: or the next of kinn; my house and housing and Land with fences or the like appurtenances, that I now dwell in and Improve adjoining to my house be it more or lesse; as it is Recorded and bounded on the Towne book, I say I doe give it to him to his heires lawfully begotten of his body forever or the next kindred.

Item I doe give to my sonnes John and James Rogers all my meadow ground that I bought of the Indians Francis and Josiah, lying att Pottammacutt and therabouts; I say I doe give and will it to them and theire heires forever equally to be divided.

Item I doe give to my sonnes Thomas and John Rogers and theire heires all my meadow and sedge lying on the otherside of the Cove, on keeskagansett syde; I say I doe give it to them and theire heires lawfully begottenof theire bodys forever;

I doe give to my Daughter Elizabeth Higgens the wife of Jonathan Higgens six acrees of Land lying neare the Barly neck, by a swamp called Ceader Swamp; as it is recorded and bounded in the Towne book, I say I give this six acrees to her and her heires of her body for ever; shee nor they shall not sell hier farm it out, directly nor indirectly to any person whatsoever, execept in case of removall it shall be lawfull for my sonnes or theire heires to buy or purchase it;

Item I give to Benjah Higgens my grandchild on condition hee live with mee until I die; I say I give to him and his heires, one third parte of all my upland and meadow att Paomett, purchased and unpurchased.

Item it is my will that the remainder of my lands or marshes, both att the barly necke, Pochett Iland Paomett Billingsgate or elswher purchased or unpurchased not disposed of particularly in my will; I say it is my will that all those lands be equally divided betwixt my three sonnes Thomas, John and James Rogers; and the heires lawfully of theire bodyes for ever; noteing that my son Thomas his twenty acrees of upland that already hee hath in the barly necke ber parte of his division of my land in the barly necke;

Item I doe give unto my daughter Hannah Rogers, if shee be not disposed of in marriage before my decease, and my wifes decease, then I day I doe give to her my bed and beding with all the furniture therto belonging or that shall belonge therto att our decease;

Alsoe it is my will that shee shall have her choise of one cow before my cattle be distributed, and use of three acrees of Tillage ground, fenced in, with the arable ground of her bretheren in the barly necke if shee desires, it soe long as shee lives unmarryed;

Item it is my will that Benjah Higgens shall have on of my cowes after mine and my wifes decease

Item it is my will concerning my loveing wife Hannah Rogers that shee live in my house as longe as shee lives, and shall be comfortably maintained by my stocke and to have the use of all my hoshold stuffe, that shee needs as longe as shee lives for her comfort and that none of my household furniture or stocke be disposed of, as longe as shee lives, save onely Hannahs cowe.

Item I will that ten shillings of my estate be disposed off for the use of the Church of Christ in Eastham as shall be Judged most nessesarie.

Item I will that the remainder of my stocke estate houshold furniture that my wife shall leave att her decease not disposed of in my will before written; be equally divided between all my children; and Benjah Higgens to have an equall share with each of them; this is my last will and testament as witnes my hand and seale this 2nd of January 1677.

Joseph's inventory was taken 15 Jan. 1567/8 and the will was probated 5 Mar. 1677/8. The depositions of Jonathan Sparrow and Samuel Berry show that the grandson called Benjah Higgens in the will was also know as Beriah Higgens. His son Thomas Rogers died before completing the settlement of the estate and so Capt. Sparrow and his remaining son John Rogers were impowered to handle the settlement.

Marker at Old Cove Burial Ground

Issue-

Ref:

(1) Plymouth Court Records- Vol. 12, p. 4
(2) Ibid- p. 12
(3) Ibid- Vol. I, p. 6
(4) Ibid- p. 39
(5) Ibid- p. 40
(6) Ibid- pp.85, 90, 93, 101, 144
(7) Ibid- p. 155
(8) Ibid- Vol. II, p. 117; IV, 5; 64
(9) Ibid- Vol. III, p. 142
(10) Ibid- p. 153
(11) Ibid- p. 205
(12) "Mayflower Descendant"- Vol. 17 (1915), pp. 167-8
(13) Plymouth Court Records- Vol. IV, p. 67
(14) Ibid- p. 96
(15) Ibid- Vol. V, p. 35
(16) Ibid- p. 39

b. 3 Apr. 1642 Duxbury
m. 19 Aug. 1669 Eastham, ELIZABETH TWINING (d. 10 Mar. 1725 Eastham), d. of William Twining and Elizabeth Dean
d. before 10 Aug. 1714 Eastham

John was on the list of freemen for Eastham in June 1689.

Issue-

Ref:

Mayflower Families Throught Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts December 1620: Family of Thomas Rogers- Alice Westgate, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2000- pp. 11, 26-8

b. 4 Nov. 1672 Eastham
m.1. 23 Apr. 1696 Eastham, PRISCILLA HAMBLIN (b. 3 Apr. 1670 Barnstable, d. before 1728)
2. 18 Apr. 1728 Harwich, Sarah Williams (m.2. John Nickerson, d. after 16 Oct. 1744)
d. 10 Jan. 1738/9 Harwich

Issue-

Ref:

Mayflower Families Throught Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts December 1620: Family of Thomas Rogers- Alice Westgate, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2000- pp. 26, 89-92

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