Person:Bird Rogers (3)

Notes

Mary Trice was his 1st wife and they had three children. Then he married 2nd in 1788 to Martha Trice and had six children by her.

He and many of the family moved to Ky. where he died and descendants lived there in Indiana and in Illinois and there is full record of all of his family.^[3]

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Spickler and Rockwood Genealogy.
2. ↑ Ancestry Public Tree.
3. ↑ Descendants of Giles Rogers.
4. ↑ Dawson, Nelson L. Genealogies of Kentucky Families: From the Filson Club History Quarterly. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1981)
   3:260-61.

   'John Rogers [father of Bird] is said to have lived and died in Drysdale Parish in King & Queen County ...'
   'Bird Rogers, born 1735, married sisters; 1st, 1766, Mary Trice; 2nd, 1788, Martha Trice.'

5.   Anderson, William Kyle. Donald Robertson and his wife Rachel Rogers of King and Queen County, Virginia: their ancestry and posterity : also a brief account of the ancestry of Commodore Richard Taylor of Orange County, Virginia, and his naval history during the War of the American Revolution. (Detroit, Mich.: unknown, 1900)
   216.

   'John Rogers named one of his sons Bird, and this son always wrote his name this way.'

6. ↑ Woods, Edgar. Albemarle County in Virginia: giving some account of what it was by nature, of what it was made by man, and of some of the men who made it. (Charlottesville, VA: The Michie company, 1901)
   309.

   ... Byrd, another son of John, was for a time a resident of the county [Albemarle]. He was twice married to sisters, Mary and Martha Trice, and had by the first two sons, John and Philip, and by the second one, George. He emigrated to Kentucky about the beginning of the century, and died shortly after. ...