Joseph John Rogers Sr. (1742 - 1806)

Born 26 Jan 1742 in North Carolina [uncertain]

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Died Oct 1806 at age 64 in Gut of Canso, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Joseph Rogers was a United Empire Loyalist.
UEL Status:Undetermined
Date: Undated

Joseph Rogers / Rodgers was born Between 1734 and 1740, and died between 1806 and 1810 in Manchester, Sydney, Nova Scotia. He married Fereby [Alexander]. She was born about 1740, and died in Manchester, Sydney, Nova Scotia.

Joseph Rodgers appears to have come from Iredell County, North Carolina, where his son Joseph settled. The county was formed from Rowan Co. and Mecklenburg Co. was nearby. At the time of the Revolutionary War, there was a group of Loyalists in the Yadkin and Catawba areas who fought for England under Col. Samuel Bryan. Perhaps Joseph was a part of this group.

After the War, Loyalists of the South found refuge in St. Augustine, Florida, which was still under British rule. But in 1783, Britain ceded East Florida to Spain. However, Spain did not take formal possession until June 12, 1784, when Zespedes, the first Spanish governor of Florida, sailed into St. Augustine.

The English refugees had to evacuate. Some sailed back to England, some to the Bahamas, some to Jamaica, and some to Nova Scotia. Almost half of the South Carolina and North Carolina provincial regiments stationed in St. Augustine and a considerable number of regular enlistees decided to take their discharges in Halifax, being undeterred by the harsh Nova Scotian winters.

Two Joseph Rodgers were named in a list of "Disbanded Officers and Soldiers and Loyalists Mustered at County Harbour by Mr. Ebenezer Leadbetter; Disbanded Officers and Soldiers of the late SC Royalists, NC Rangers, and NC Volunteers at Country Harbour, mustered 19 May 1784, Captain Dawkins of SC Royalists, 210 men, 36 women, 22 children, 7 servants or a total of 275" (Loyalists in the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War, by Clark,Vol. 1 p. 51). Also named in this partial listing are Ely Rogers and Zekiel Rogers. This list appears to be an amalgamation of muster lists from various points in today's Guysborough county.

The "Muster Roll of Loyalists from St. Augustine on board the 'Argo' Transport bound to Chedebucto, Halifax, 31 Jul 1784" includes these: Joseph Rogers, Joseph Rogers, Needham Rogers, Bryan Rogers, Africa Rogers, and Fereby Rogers. (Ibid. p. 529).^[1]

In October 1784, Joseph was granted 350 acres on the west side of Gut of Canso in the township of Manchester. The record of this seems to indicate that he came from NC. Assessments of Gut of Canso in 1791 show that Joseph was a farmer. From the land petition of Joseph's sons Joseph and Needham in 1796, cited on their profiles, it is clear that the large acreage granted to the family in 1784 was not suitable farmland.

Fereby [Alexander]: Some Rodgers researchers believe she was the daughter of John Alexander and Margaret Elizabeth Alden.

From an old rootsweb post: https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/alexander/12169/ I am seeking the ancestry of both Ferreby Alexander and her husband, Joseph Rogers, who married in the mid 1700's possibly in Va or maybe Nova Scotia. I have been told that Ferreby's parents were John Alexander and Margaret Elizabeth Alden, but have no proof. Thanks.

Reply - I was told that Ferreby and Joseph married possibly in St. Augustine. They were originally from North Carolina I believe and then fled to the British St. Augustine then to Nova Scotia.

I have also heard that Ferreby's parents are named John Alexander and Margaret Elizabeth Alden, though I do not know the source of this information.

"Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch ([1]: accessed 10 April 2019), entry for Ferreby /Alexander/, cites sources; "Woodard Family Tree" file (2:2:2:MMDD-H2C), submitted 19 December 2014 by Stella Samson [identity withheld for privacy]. list possible children as

1. Joseph Rogers 1762-1819
2. Eli Rogers 1764- Eli, a Loyalist during the American Revolution, was discharged as a Corporal in the Duke of Cumberland's Regiment, mustered out on 20 June 1784. Comment of Mary (Marshall) Bates: "The Duke of Cumberland's regiment was also known as the Montague Corps. and was comprised largely by Scottish elements of the Carolina population. When the time came to disband the regiment, the two battalions which comprised the regiment were in Jamaica. Those who desired lands in Nova Scotia were loaded into two ships, the Argo and the Industry. The Argo arrived in Halifax on 13 December 1783. The Industry was detained and had to put in to Havana before continuing her voyage." The 1838 Census of Nova Scotia finds Eli living in Wilmot as a fisherman, with 2 males under 6; 3 males under 14; 1 female over 14 not head of household. Eli married (as his second wife), Rachel (---). Eli & Rachel were the parents of a daughter: (a) Sarah Rogers, who was born 13 March 1807. https://www.geni.com/people/Eli-Rogers/6000000003042746826
3. Bryan(Bryant) Rogers 1766-1832
4. Ezekiel Rogers 1768
5. William Rogers 1770
6. Africa Rogers 1774 (?) m 1791 in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada to William George (b1756-d 1874 https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/9928203/person/6029458524/facts
7. Needham Rogers 1774-1820
8. George Rogers 1775- He married Martha Henline February 22, 1803 in Guysborough, Sydney, Nova Scotia.
9. Jacob Rogers 1778

https://www.geni.com/people/Joseph-Rogers/6000000003139347852 Joseph & Ferreby and 3 of their children over 10 years of age, arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from St. Augustine, on the ship "Argo" on 29 July 1784, and were in Chedabucto [Manchester], Sydney (Guysborough) Nova Scotia by the autumn of 1784. On 23 February 1785 they bought Lot #4, 400 acres, in Manchester. In 1790 they probably bought 250 acres from a Henry Johns, but this was not recorded.

Nova Scotia, Canada, Land Petitions, 1765-1800 Name: Joseph Rogers Year: 1785 Place of Land Record: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Details: The Duke of Cumberland's Regiment and Loyalists from St. Augustine. Granted 30,700 acres in the Township of Manchester, on Chedabucto Bay (near land granted I. Boyd) to the mouth of a small Riverlet entering the Gut of Canso and from Benjamin Hollowell's Grant on Milford Haven to the sea shore of Chedebucto Bay. Containing in all 50,000 acres, in which the 30,700 acres is included as well as 13,744 acres reserved to the Crown and land allowed for a Town Plot, Glebe, School Lots, Roads and further Grants.

Names on Land Record Name Rf Brownrigg James Balmor Gideon White Ralph Cunningham Bryan Meighan Angus MacDonald John MacPherson John Dunnaway James Horsford Stephen Jones William Paylor James Harris Eli Rogers Robert Barrett Thomas Miles Benjamin Critchett Peter Harrell Nathan Pushee John Pringle John Wetherford Esom Franklin Russell George Hines John Hewin Reuben Johnston William Harbourn William Sherrin Thomas Jones Daniel MacCarthy William Spain Daniel Williams John Cappard James Taylor John Cowen William Pearce David Lewis Samuel Oliver Barnabas Studevin Ulderic Frend Isaac Everidge John Murphy George Whitman John Bumgarner Henry Stanagin Edward Herrerman Zackeus Davis Samuel Jewell Daniel Sellers Thomas Reynolds Robert Brownlie Abraham Parnell Patrick Rielly Marmaduke Pendlebury Nathan MacKeel William Boswell Cornelius Carney William MacCarthy Miles Murphy Lewis Clark Frederick Smith Walter Glasco Gideon Symonds Robert Armstrong James Wishart James Bundey Lewis Tilley James Land Edward MacCaffray Shaduck Watkins Basil Phillips John Roberts George Brown James Staunton Jeremiah Harrigan William Carey David Bradley John Read John Porter Samuel Serratt Charles Fielder Charles Fraser Nathan Conyers Peter Hines John Hopkins William Fryer Philip Nouse William Rogers John MacLeese Samuel Thompson William MacCoy John Wilson William Parsons John Shanks John Flick John Haddox Jesse Neilson Timothy Brooks William Wheeler Thomas Shores John Davis Edward Goodwin Henry Driver George Bruce Matthew Rhodes Bryan Matthews William Lewis William Brown John Harding John Hope Edward Read David Essex Andrew Robertson Edmund Penrice Cutlick Rhiedeker Thomas Kelly John Upton Patrick Hannigan Thomas Byram Baptist Armsworthy Roger Brickstock John Clements Zepheon Williams George Devenish James Farrow Robert Markham Oliver MacGeen Isom Whitt Harry Henry David Willoughby Philip Weller Isaac Kennedy John Whitt John Ambrose Madderson Hunt George King Sterling King Thomas Fox Henry Johns William Mayes David Martin William Barnel William Higgins John King John Todd James Lyle William Read Andrew Robinson Robert Byrd Jacob Beasley James Reeves George Pinkley Benjamin Proctor Peter Ogilvie John Ogilvie Thomas North Samuel Smith Joseph Rogers Timothy Panlon William George George Spangs James Proctor Isaac Goltney David Welch John Matterson Ralph Cook William Tucker Joseph Carter George Dorsey Archibald MacDonald Robert Sloane James Magee Samuel Scott Alexander McKnight Adam Terrymouth Anne Reynolds Thomas Smyth Abraham Wilkie George Campbell Thomas Snarlock Elizabeth Agnew

Name: Joseph Rogers Year: 1796 Place of Land Record: Guysborough, Nova Scotia, Canada Details: Memorialists are sons of Joseph Rogers, Sr., a refugee from St. Augustine, and settled in the Gut of Canso since 1784. Joseph has a wife and four children, Needham is twenty-two years, and as their father's land is insufficient to support the family, which contains six others, they request land in the Gut of Canso by licence or grant. "Richd Morris, D.S., may lay out 350 acres for Joseph Rogers and 100 for Needham Rogers and return a plan for His Excellency Sir John Wentworth's consideration." Memorial. Names on Land Record: Name

• Joseph Rogers
• Needham Rogers

• This profile consists of many unverified facts. Please feel free to add or correct this information as required. - TLD

Sources

1. ↑ Joseph Rogers, in Muster Roll of Loyalists from St. Augustine on board the Argo Transport, bound to Chedebucto, Halifax, 13th July 1784: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/loyalists/loyalists-ward-chipman/pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=5277&

• Nova Scotia, Canada, Land Petitions, 1765-1800; Nova Scotia Archives; Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Nova Scotia Land Petitions (1765-1800); Volume Number: 11
• Nova Scotia, Canada, Land Petitions, 1765-1800; Nova Scotia Archives; Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Nova Scotia Land Petitions (1765-1800); Volume Number: 24
• Land records/grants, Biography: A.C. Jost, Guysborough Sketches and Essays, Township books,

Also see

• https://www.geni.com/people/Joseph-Rogers/6000000003139347852