Roger Smith (1587 - 1629)

Born 1587 in England

Ancestors

Husband of Jane (Pierce) Smith — married before 1624 in Colony of Virginia

Descendants

Died 1629 at about age 42 in Virginia

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Biography

John Rolfe (1585–1622) died in 1622 and his widow Jane married Englishman Captain Roger Smith three years later. He was the son of John Smith (no relation to Captain John Smith) and Thomasine Manning.^[1]

But it was not the nature of the Anglo-Saxon man to be for long intimidated by fear of these weak, cowardly wretches, who had inflicted upon them such a dastardly outrage; for, in July of the same year, they commenced to move against them, and in the early fall Sir George Yeardley commanded an expedition against the savages down the river. He drove out the Worrosquoyackes and Nansemonds, burned their houses and took their corn. On May 21, 1623, Captain Roger Smith was ordered to build a fort on the Worrosquoyacke shore, opposite to Tindall Shoals, where Captain Samuel Each had a blockhouse in building. Excerpted from ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY 1608 - 1907 by Col. E. M. Morrison^[2]

Roger was born in 1587 in England. He was the son of John Smith and Thomasine Manning. ^[3]

When Roger was about 37 he married Jane Pierce in 1624 in VA. The couple had one child: John Smith. ^[3]

Roger died at the age of about 42 in 1629 in VA. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rolfe
2. ↑ [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vaisleof/history.htm ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY 1608 - 1907 by Col. E. M. Morrison
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Death: Type: Web Site Author: Harrison Thomas LaTour Title: LaTour Genealogical Collection URL: http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=DESC&db=kingharry&id=I11889 Date: 2009-03-18. (accessed before 26 September 2011)

See also:

• McCartney, Martha W (2007). Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, p. 648