... John [Rogers], familiarly known in his day as Farmer John, passed his life on his plantation in the county, near Keswick Depot. He and his son-in -law, Richard Sampson, were regarded as occupying the front rank among the sagacious and successful planters of the State. About 1820 the Albemarle Agricultural Society awarded to John Rogers the premium for having the best tilled farm in the county. He died in 1838.
His wife was Susan, daughter of Charles Goodman, and his children
John,
Thornton,
Mary, the wife of Richard Sampson, and
Janetta, the wife of J. Price Sampson. ...
... In the decade of 1790, a John Rogers, whose wife's name was Mary, came from Stafford, and bought land in the neighborhood of Earlysville; nothing further is known of him.
Some years later another John Rogers came from Lancaster County, and lived on the east side of the South West Mountain. To distinguish him from Farmer John, the syllable Lan. was affixed to his name, while to Farmer John's was appended the letter M. ...
