Woodes Rogers Jr.
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Woodes Rogers Jr. (abt. 1679 - 1732)

Woodes Rogers Jr.
Born about in Poole, Dorset, Englandmap
Son of and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died at about age 53 in Nassau, New Providence, Bahamasmap
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Woodes Rogers Jr. is part of a Bahamian family.

Biography

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Woodes Rogers Jr. was born in Dorset, England.
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Woodes ROGERS.[1]

Woodes Rogers was the eldest son and heir of Woods Rogers, a successful merchant captain. [2]

Woodes Rogers was born in Bristol, England around 1679. He was a privateer and later became the first governor of Bahamas.

He married Sarah Whetstone on 25 Jan 1704 in London, daughter of Rear Admiral Sir William Whetstone.[3] He became a freeman of Bristol because of his marriage into the prominent Whetstone family. Woodes and Sarah had a son and two daughters.

In 1709, the English captains Woodes Rogers, Etienne Courtney, and William Dampier, along with a crew of 110, looted Guayaquil and demanded ransom; however, they suddenly departed without collecting the ransom after an epidemic of yellow fever broke out.[4]

In 1717 Rogers was officially appointed as the royal governor of the Bahamas.

After three years of his battle against piracy in the Caribbean, Rogers finally returned to England in 1721, but went back to Bahamas in 1729 as the new captain-general. Woodes Rogers died at Nassau in 1732. [5]

He will always be remembered as a remarkable man, the hero of the nation who expelled all pirates and brought an order to Bahamas and the most of the Caribbean Sea.

Sources

  1. ↑ Family Search Pedigree File Notes, accessed 14 Oct 2021.
  2. ↑ Wikipedia, Woodes Rogers, accessed 14 Oct 2021.
  3. ↑ "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NJ5K-78C : 12 March 2020), Sarah Whetston in entry for Woods Rogers, 1704.
  4. ↑ Wikipedia Guayaquil, accessed 7 Jul 2019.
  5. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:4KWT-1N6Z : 5 August 2020), Governer Woodes Rogers, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID 202146276, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
  • "Woodes Rogers: The Man Who Ended Caribbean Piracy" Gold and Gunpowder, Youtube.com [1]
  • "Benjamin Hornigold: Father of the Pirate Republic" Gold and Gunpowder, Youtube.com [2]
  • Rear Admiral Sir William Whetstone, d. 1711, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, [3]




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