Hannah (Godfrey) Rogers (abt. 1712 - abt. 1765)

Born about 1712 in Eastham, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of James Rogers — married 21 May 1730 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died about 1765 at about age 53 in Chatham, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Hannah Godfrey's husband and children:

James Rogers, second son of James and Susannah (Tracy) Rogers, was born in Eastham, Massachusetts, May 2, 1706. He married, May 21, 1730, Hannah Godfrey, of Chatham, Massachusetts, and settled in Orleans, then a part of Eastham, where he died in February, 1759.

The children of James and Hannah (Godfrey) Rogers were born at Eastham:

1. Lydia Rogers, born 09 April 1731
2. James Rogers, 21 December 1732
3. Silvanus Rogers, 14 May 1736, died young
4. Prince Rogers, 29 June 1738
5. Samuel Rogers, 07 August 1740
6. Silvanus Rogers, 22 December 1742
7. Hannah Rogers, 11 Feb 1744
8. Susannah Rogers, 19 October 1748
9. Jonathan Rogers, 03 August 1750

Their son, Prince Rogers removed to Hampden, Maine, about 1780, but soon after returned to Eastham, Massachusetts, and later his son Prince removed to Maine and his descendants settled in Orrington and Brewer.

Sources

• Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine; (Volume 4) by George Thomas Little, New York, Lewis historical Pub. Co., page 1782. Link on Archive.org.

• Ann T. [Revised by], (Originally compiled by Alice W. A. Westgate) Reeves, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620: Family of Thomas Rogers (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2000).