Samuel ROGERS ^{1 2 3 4}

  Noted events in his life were:

• Research Notes: Rogers, James of New London, Connecticut. ³ "James, the father of Samuel, and Thomas Stanton, the father of Mary, each gave two hundred pounds sterling to the young couple on their marriage. Samuel's father gave him a stone house and bakery at the head of Winthrop's Cove. Here he began housekeeping, conducting the bakery for many years, and was finally succeeded in business by his son Samuel. About 1680 he removed to what was then called Mohegan, and became the first actual settler. He had been for years on intimate terms with Uncas, chief of the Mohegans."

"The first white settler upon the lands north of the settlement of New London, was Samuel Rogers, the father of Sarah, in about 1671. Samuel's good friend Uncas had persuaded him to settle in his neighborhood, and as an inducement, had given Samual a valuable tract of land upon "Oxoboxa Brook" and had further promised, in case of inroads by prowling bands of Narragansetts, a troublesome tribe of Indians lying on the east, that Uncas would rally at once with his warriors for Samuel's protection. Samuel built a house of hewn plank upon this land, surrounded it with a stockade, and mounted a small cannon in front, firing of which was to be the signal of alarm. Soon after, the boom of this gun was heard echoing through the forest, and in a few minutes Uncas, with his grim warriors, came rushing to the rescue of his friends. Samuel, to palliate the experiemental trick, had prepared a feast for their reception; but the delighted warriors relished the cunning artiface, so in keeping with their own notions of strategy, as keenly as they did the banquet."

"Samuel Rogers owned a great deal of real estate, and his transactions in land - as shown by the books of land records - far outnumbered those of any other man in the Colony. Although there is no record to show that he united with the Rogerene church, he was by many proofs, in sympathy with the Rogerenes and in close frienship with his brother John. His house stood about three-quarters of a mile south of the Congregational meeting-house, on a plain now owned by Albert A. Robers, one of his descendants. A short distance east is a burying-ground of the Rogers families and their near relatives. Nearly one hundred graves are to be found there."

• Research Notes: Harris, James of New London, Connecticut and His Descendants; From 1640 to 1878 by Nathaniel Harris Morgan, 1878. ¹ "James, the father of Samuel, and Thomas Stanton, the father of Mary, each gave two hundred pounds sterling to the young couple on their marriage. Samuel's father gave him a stone house and bakery at the head of Winthrop's Cove. Here he began housekeeping, conducting the bakery for many years, and was finally succeeded in business by his son Samuel. About 1680 he removed to what was then called Mohegan, and became the first actual settler. He had been for years on intimate terms with Uncas, chief of the Mohegans."

"The first white settler upon the lands north of the settlement of New London, was Samuel Rogers, the father of Sarah, in about 1671. Samuel's good friend Uncas had persuaded him to settle in his neighborhood, and as an inducement, had given Samual a valuable tract of land upon "Oxoboxa Brook" and had further promised, in case of inroads by prowling bands of Narragansetts, a troublesome tribe of Indians lying on the east, that Uncas would rally at once with his warriors for Samuel's protection. Samuel built a house of hewn plank upon this land, surrounded it with a stockade, and mounted a small cannon in front, firing of which was to be the signal of alarm. Soon after, the boom of this gun was heard echoing through the forest, and in a few minutes Uncas, with his grim warriors, came rushing to the rescue of his friends. Samuel, to palliate the experiemental trick, had prepared a feast for their reception; but the delighted warriors relished the cunning artiface, so in keeping with their own notions of strategy, as keenly as they did the banquet."

"Samuel Rogers owned a great deal of real estate, and his transactions in land - as shown by the books of land records - far outnumbered those of any other man in the Colony. Although there is no record to show that he united with the Rogerene church, he was by many proofs, in sympathy with the Rogerenes and in close frienship with his brother John. His house stood about three-quarters of a mile south of the Congregational meeting-house, on a plain now owned by Albert A. Robers, one of his descendants. A short distance east is a burying-ground of the Rogers families and their near relatives. Nearly one hundred graves are to be found there."

Samuel married Mary STANTON, daughter of Thomas STANTON and Ann LORD, on 17 Nov 1662 in New London, New London County, Connecticut. (Mary STANTON was born in 1643 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut.)

Samuel next married Johana WILLIAMS (MAIDEN UNKNOWN). (Johana WILLIAMS (MAIDEN UNKNOWN) died in Sep 1774.)