James Rogers (1673 - 1751)

Born 30 Oct 1673 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Susannah (Tracy) Rogers — married 17 Feb 1698 in Eastham, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 8 Sep 1751 at age 77 in Eastham, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

James Rogers was born on 30 October 1673 in Eastham, (then) Plymouth Colony, the son of James and Mary (Paine) Rogers. At birth he was given the name of Samuel, but after his father died when he was 7 years old, he was renamed James in his father's honor and so baptized in April 1680.^[1][2]

He married in Eastham on February 17, 1697/8, Susannah Treasy (Tracy),^[3] the daughter of John and Mary (Prence) Tracy.^[2] They lived in Orleans, then part of Eastham.^[4]

He died September 8, 1751 in Eastham.^[3][2]

James Rogers of Eastham, yeoman, left a will, dated 5 Mar 1749 and inventory taken 08 Oct 1751, in which he named his wife Susannah; sons Issac, James and Thomas Rogers; daughters Mary Davis and Abigail Young; granddaughter Susannah Rogers; grandsons Thomas Rogers, James Rogers and Isaac Davis; son James to be executor. Son James swore to the inventory.^[5]

Children born Eastham:^[3][2]

1. Mary, b. 12 Nov 1698, d. bef. Nov 1767; m. Jacob Davis 1733 Eastham; 3 children.
2. Isaac, b. 8 Dec 1701, d. bef. 12 May 1767; unmarried.
3. Susannah, b. 19 Jan 1703/4, living 6 Oct 1741; m. Judah Rogers 1741 Eastham; 1 child.
4. James, b. 2 May 1706, d. Feb 1759; m. Hannah Godfrey 1730 Chatham; 9 children.
5. Abigail, 3 Aug 1708, d. 1785; m. Zebulon Young 1748 Eastham; no known children.
6. Thomas, b. 21 Oct 1710, d. bet. 20 Aug 1778 - 10 Jun 1779; m. (1) Rebecca Higgins 1736 Eastham, m. (2) Hannah Crosby 1763 Yarmouth; 8 children.

Research notes

The executor's account of his estate, dated 7 Sep 1752, includes a charge for "time trouble & expence I was put to by the suit of Zeb[ulon] Young, 8 shillings." Zebulon was daughter Abigail's husband. In her father's will, dated 5 Mar 1749, Abigail Young was given leave to use, with her mother Susannah, the westerly half part of his dwelling house and one third part of his barn, as well as a small piece of land and meadow. James, the testator, also said the land was given to her and to her heirs & assigns forever.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-9979-9XFZ?cc=2061550&wc=Q4DW-7MF%3A353349701%2C353418401%2C353418402 : 20 May 2014), Barnstable > Eastham, Orleans > Births, marriages, deaths, land grants 1649-1722 > image 117 of 157; town clerk offices, Massachusetts.

   Samuel Rogers (otherwise baptised James and soe to be Called april 1680) the sonne of James Rogers was borne the 30th day of October 1673

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Ann Reeves and Alice W.A. Westgate, Mayflower Families Through 5 Generations, Thomas Rogers, Vol. 19 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2000 [1st printing]), p. 13, 38-9.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L979-9X31?cc=2061550&wc=Q4DW-7MF%3A353349701%2C353418401%2C353418402 : 20 May 2014), Barnstable > Eastham, Orleans > Births, marriages, deaths, land grants 1649-1722 > image 155 of 157; town clerk offices, Massachusetts.

   James Rogers and Susannah Treasey wear marryed the seventeenth day of february : 1697:8 :

4. ↑ George Thomas Little, Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, 4 vols. (New York: Lewis historical Pub. Co., 1909) Vol. 4, page 1782
5. ↑ Barnstable County Probate Records Vol. 8:496-98, Will, Letters Testamentary & inventory of James Rogers of Eastham; Vol. 9:163, Account.
6. ↑ Barnstable County Probate Records Vol. 9:163, Account.

See also:

• New England Marriages Prior to 1700, by Clarence Almon Torrey (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011) Vol. II, p. 1292. ROGERS, James (1673-1751) & Susannah TRACY/TREASY; 17 Feb 1697/8; Eastham, citing MD 9:11; Prence 24; Tracy (1936) 27; Paine 2:4; Waterman (1939) 690; Reg. 6:235; Young (1923) 22.

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