Lieutenant Joseph Rogers

Lieutenant Joseph Rogers (bp. 1603), son of Thomas Rogers and Alice Cosford

Hannah Unknown

Joseph, the son of Thomas and Alice (Cosford) Rogers, was baptized on 23 Janaury 1602/3 in Watford, Northamptonshire. [1] He married Hannah ___. [1]

Joseph came to New England on the Mayflower with his father. He was orphaned at age 17 when his parents died soon after arrival in New England. [2]

In the 1623 Plymouth land division, Joseph was granted two acres as a passenger on the Mayflower for himself and his deceased father. [1] In the 1627 cattle division he was the fifth person in the eleventh company. [1]

Joseph and his brother John were each granted 50 acres at the North River on 6 April 1640. [1]

In 1644 the Court granted land to "those that goe to dwell at Nausett [Eastham]." Joseph was an early settler of Eastham and his name appears on a 22 May 1655 list of inhabitants. [3]

Children of Joseph and Hannah Rogers: Births and death of Sarah recorded in Sandwich as the children of Lieutenant Joseph. [4]

i. Sarah Rogers was born on 6 August 1633 and died on 15 August 1633.

ii. Joseph Rogers was born on 19 July 1635. He died from a fall from his horse on 27 January 1660/1 in Eastham. [5] He married Susanna Deane. She married second Stephen Snow.

On 8 May 1674 Thomas Rogers of Eastham, the heir of his deceased brother Joseph Rogers of Eastham, transferred to his "loveing sister" Susanna Snow, the late wife of his brother Joseph, and her husband Stephen Snow, all his right in his brother's estate. [6]

iii. Thomas Rogers was born on 29 March 1638. He probably died shortly after 16 June 1678. He married Elizabeth Snow

iv. Elizabeth Rogers was born on 29 September 1639. She married Jonathan Higgens on 9 January 1660. [FSE]

v. John Rogers was born on 3 April 1642. He died between 27 April 1713 and 10 August 1714.

John was admitted an inhabitant of Eastham before 1675. [3]

John Rogers, Sr. of Eastham, "now Striken in years" wrote his will on 27 April 1713. He mentioned his sons John, Judah, Joseph, Eleazer, and Nathaniel Rogers, his daughters Elizabeth, Hannah and Mehitable Rogers, his grandson John Rogers and his wife Elizabeth. Inventory on his estate was exhibited on 10 August 1714 and his will was proved on 21 September 1714. [7]

vi. Mary Rogers was born on 22 September 1644.

vii. James Rogers was born on 18 August 1648. He died in 1678. [8] He married Mary Paine on 11 January 1670. [8]

viii. Hannah Rogers was born on 8 August 1652.

References:

1. "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620–1633, Volumes I-III," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally published as: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 3 volumes (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 1597–8.

2. Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower (New York: Viking, 2006).

3. Hamlin, David Hamlin, "First Settlers of Eastham, Mass.," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 6 (1852): 41–42.

4. Caroline Lewis Cardell and Russell A. Lovell, Vital Records of Sandwich, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850, 2 vols. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996), 1: 6 (births of the children, death of Sarah).

5. John Insley Coddington, "The Widow Mary Ring of Plymouth, Mass., and Her Children," The American Genealogist 42 (1966): 193–205.

6. "Massachusetts: Plymouth Colony Deeds, 1671–1673," database with images, AmericanAncestors, vol. 3, part 2, 199–200.

7. "Barnstable, MA: Probate Records, 1685–1789," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org, vol. 3: 108–9.

8. Mrs. M.L.T. Alden, "The Snow Genealogy," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 102 (1948): 47.

Last revised: 18-Jul-2023