John Rogers Family

The following data is extracted from Rogers Family Records.

HENRY I, KING OF FRANCE, father of:
PRINCE HUGH THE GREAT: Count de Vermandois; m. Lady Adela de Vermandois,
great-granddaughter of EDWARD THE ELDER, KING OF ENGLAND.
Their dau. was:
LADY ISABEL DE VERMANDOIS: d. 1131; m. Robert, Baron de Bellomont.
ROBERT-BOSSU DE BELLOMONT: Lord Justice of England; d. 1168.
GERVASE PAGANEL: Baron of Dudley, Staffordshire. From him was descended
(15 generations removed):
THOMAS DUDLEY: b. at Canon's Ashby, England, about 1576; commanded a
company at the siege of Amiens; became a Puritan and came to America
with Governor Winthrop in 1630, in order to escape persecution; was four
times Governor of the Massachusetts Colony; d. 1653.
PATIENCE DUDLEY: m. Major-General Daniel Dennison, of Ipswich.
ELIZABETH DENNISON: m. REV. DR. JOHN ROGERS, 5th President of
Harvard College, 1676, b. in England, 1630, d. 1684. He was the s. of
REV. NATHANIEL ROGERS (b. 1598, d. 1655) who removed with his
family to New England in 1636, and who was the s. of REV. JOHN
ROGERS, for many years a famous preacher of Dedham, Essex, who was
the grandson of JOHN ROGERS, Prebendary of St. Paul's and Vicar
of St. Sepulchre, the Proto-Martyr, who in Queen Mary's reign was burned
at Smithfield, 1555.
(1) DR. DANIEL ROGERS: of Ipswich; b. 1667, d. 1722.
(A) REV. DANIEL ROGERS: of Littleton, Mass.; b. 1706, d. 1782;
m. Mary Whiting, a des. (22 generations removed) of WILLIAM
THE CONQUEROR, KING OF ENGLAND.
(a) JEREMIAH DUMMER ROGERS: of Charlestown; d. 1784;
m., 1769, Bathsheba Thacher, of Milton, Mass., also of
royal descent.
1. ...... ROGERS: m. David Ellis, of Boston. Issue.
2. MARGARET ROGERS: m. Jonathan Chapman. Issue.
3. ...... ROGERS: m. Dr. William Spooner of Boston.
4. SAMUEL ROGERS: d. 1832.
5. JEREMIAH ROGERS: d. 1832.
(b) SARAH ROGERS: m. Samuel Parkman, of Boston. Issue.
(c) ELIZA ROGERS: m. Abel Willard, of Lancaster.

Source: Rogers Family Records

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