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The Thomas Rogers Family

Additional Reading:

Mayflower Families Through Five Generations  II, Chilton, More, Rogers
General Soceity of Mayflower Descendants, 1978

TGM 3:1598 includes additional information on this family

Thomas1 Rogers, the Mayflower Passenger, who died in the first sickness, made his journey to the new world with his son Joseph, who survived. His wife did not come to America.  Gov. Bradford says "The rest of  Thomas Rogers came over, & are maried, & have many children." According to Bowman, and substantiated by later research, only one of the children who came later has been identified, viz.: John2 Rogers, who married Ann Churchman.

Of  Thomas little is known. Born by about 1572, son of William and Eleanor (____) Rogers, Watford, Northamptonshire [TGM 3: 1598 citing The Genealogist] In 1619 he sued a baker and a miller of Leiden to free a lien on his house, and perhaps in preparation for his journey, won the suit and was awarded court costs. (NEHGR 143:207). He had bought this house in 1616/7 and sold it April, 1620 (Ibid.)

Records in Leiden of the 1622 poll tax show his family living there in the back part of a house owned by separatist Anthony Clements, and  including John, son of Thomas; Elizabeth Rogers, widow of Thomas; and Elizabeth and Margaret, her children.

Upon Thomas' death, Joseph may have lived with Governor Bradford. Joseph came in 1530.   Many have claimed for Thomas other male descendants, none of which had been proved by the publication date of Mayflower Family Volume Two, Thomas Rogers, and it is there noted one has been disproved, i.e., William Rogers of Connecticut and Long Island.

Children of John2 and Ann(a) Churchman Rogers
John3 Rogers, married, 1st, Elizabeth Pabodie3 (Elizabeth2 Alden, John1); married, 2d, Hannah (Hobart) Brown; married, 3d, Marah (---) Browning, a widow.
(H)Anna3 Rogers, married, 1st, John Tisdale; married, 2d, Thomas Terry; married 3d, Samuel Williams (Taunton Family)
Abigail3 Rogers, married John Richmond as his second wife. .
Elizabeth3 Rogers, married Nathaniel Williams.(Taunton Family)

Joseph2 Rogers (Thomas1), and Hannah _______. (She may not have been his only wife, nor the mother of his children MF5G V2:157) A copy of his will is written in the Plymouth Colony Record Book. 

Children of Joseph2 and Hannah Rogers
Sarah3 Rogers, died in infancy.
Joseph3 Rogers, married Susanne Deane. No known issue.  In a court record of 1660, a John Hawes of Yarmouth was found not guilty of "takeing away the life of Josephth Rogers of Eastham by giveing him a most deadly fall . . .(MF5G V:158)"
Thomas3 Rogers, married Elizabeth Snow3 (Constance2 Hopkins, Stephen1).
Elizabeth3 Rogers, married Jonathan Higgins. His first wife. (See Hannah)
John3 Rogers, married Elizabeth Twining.
Mary3 Rogers, married John Phinney.
James3 Rogers, married Mary Paine4 (Mary Snow3, Constance2 Hopkins, Stephen1).
Hannah3 Rogers,  the second wife of Jonathan Higgins, who married her sister Elizabeth for his first wife; (Bowman was uncertain, but  MF5G V2:163 accepts it)