Person:James Rogers (20)

BIOGRAPHY: The Benjamin Families from Columbia County, New York Compiled by R. M. Benjamin Published by Pantagraph Ptg. & Sta. Co. Bloomington, Ill. 1911 Page 19

  James Rogers
  Austin, in his Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, says of James Rogers, who was a miller at Newport, R. I. and General Sergeant as early as 1643:
  He may have been a son of Thomas Rogers, who came in the Mayflower in 1620, with son Joseph, and died next year.
  The Colonial Records show that on July 20, 1669, James Rogers was ordered "to apprehend the Indian Sachem, Nine-craft, and bring him before the Governor and Council to answer the charge of a plot among the Indians to cut off the English. He was empowered to take assistance of a boat and two men for transportation, and also two men and three horses in the King's Province." The Records also show that on August 24, 1676, he "attended at the trial of certain Indians before a Court martial held at Newport. The Indians were charged with being engaged in King Philip's designs and several were executed."
  James Rogers died in 1676, and his wife Mary died in 1678.
  Children of James and Mary Rogers.- Sarah, married about 1648, to Richard Knight, she died in 1680, he died in 1685: Thomas, born in 1639, he died Nov. 23, 1719, and his wife, Sarah, died in 1716; John, born Oct. 8, 1641.