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- Mayflower Descendant, edited by George Ernest Bowman, Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants Will written 2 Jan 1677/8, inventory 15 Jan 1677/8, MD 3:67 A History of Early Orleans by Ruth L Barnard, published for the Orleans Historical Society, Orleans, MA, by William S Sullwold, Publishing, Taunton MA, 1975. states 'The third person from the Mayflower to settle at 'Nosset' was Joseph Rogers, a young lad, son of Thomas Rogers who died the first winter at Plymouth leaving said Joseph and five sons in England who later came to this country. Rogers descended from Sir Tancred de Hauteville was born about 970, a nobleman of Normandy, and from Grand Count Roger I, who was created 'Duke of Apulia, King of Sicily' which comprised Sicily and the lower half of present Italy. Joseph Rogers lived in Plymouth and Duxbury, then move to Sandwich and in 1647 he settled at Pochet. His wife was named Hannah. Five children were born in Duxbury and three at Pochet. At Nauset, Joseph Rogers was commissioned a Lieutenant in 1647' Buried at Old Cove Cemetery.
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- per THOMAS ROGERS, PILGRIM, AND SOME OF HIS DESCDNDANTS by Elizabeth S. Daniel and Jeanne E. Sawtelle, 1980 'Pilgrim Thomas Rogers was born, probably in England, before 1590. The first certain reference to him was in 1618, when he became a citizen of Leiden, Holland, sponsored by two of the Pilgrim community who had come from Worksop, Notts., and Sandwich, Kent, both in England. Therefore, Thomas himself may have come from one ot those towns. In April 1620, Thomas sold his Leiden home in preparation for the voyage across the Atlantic, and he died early in 1621, in Plymouth Colony. The only other information that we positively know about Thomas Rogers is that Gov. William Bradford, in 1650, wrote that 'Thomas Rogers and Joseph his son' came on the MAYFLOWER, and that 'Thomas died in the first sickness, but his son Joseph is still living and is married and hath six children. The rest of Thomas Roger's (children) came over and are married and have many children.' We know from the 1622 Poll Tax that the Rogers family in Leiden then consisted of widow Elsgen (or Elizabeth), son Jan (or John), and daughters Lysbeth and Geietgen (or Elizabeth and Margaret). The English equivalents were supplied by the Leiden Archivist. John Rogers arrived at Plymouth about 1630, with last of the Leidne contingent. His identity is proved by a 1640 grant to him and Joseph Rogers, calling them brothers, and giving them each 50 acres at the North River. If Thomas had other sons, it is highly unlikely that they lived to maturity, since they neither appear in the 1622 tax list, nor were they granted land with their brothers. ...Research among the married women of Plymouth and Salem, where many of the Leiden group landed, has so far failed to show any Margaret or Elizabeth as a likely daughter of Thomas Rogers... To date, the MF Socitey recognizes only Joseph and John as children of Pilgrim Thomas Rogers. ...tradition that Gov. Bradford took Jospeh into his home after Thomas died in the winter of 1620/1. Joseph became a freeman in 1633, and received permission in 1635/6 to operate a ferry across the Jones River. In 1636 he was first noted as serving on a jury. Joseph was granted 30 acres of land in 1638, and became a constable of Ducbury in 1639/40. He and is brother John were each granted 50 acres of upland in 1640. Joseph seems to have moved to Eastham, then known as Nauset, around 1647. In June of that year he was made a lieutenant, with the duty of exercising the men at arms there. He apparently lived briefly in Sandwich in the early 1650's. He served on the council of war during 1658, was freed from his lieutenancy in 1661, but reestablished in 1664. In 1670 he was a selectman in Eastham. The original will of Joseph Rogers no longer exists. (See copy from above book for more will info)
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