Reverend Nehemiah Rogers of Messing
Looking for information on Reverend Nehemiah Rogers of Messing and Father Reverend Vincent Rogers of Statford Bow.
IF this information can be documented and verified, this makes me a descendant of Rev. John Rogers, the Martyr. Interestingly enough, I am also a direct descendant of a Samuel Drake.
Thomas William Rogers
Born May 9, 1954
I am looking for additional documentation and information to verify material concerning the following:
"Genealogical Gleanings in England."
pg 561
"Mr. Whitmore notes that in the library of Mr. Samuel G. Drake (in Little Braxton, Eng) was sold a book by that John Rogers, minisster of Purleigh, who was ordered to pay Mrs. Washington a portion of the tithes (see Register, vol. 45, p 240; ante, p 523).This book contained some autobiographical items, and he thought they might have some reference to Purleigh and asked if that or another copy could be found.
In a communication to the Nation, Oct 22, 1891, Mr Worthington C. Ford states that he has found a copy of the book inquired for in the library of the New York Theological Seminary, New York city, and he gives some interesting facts about the author derived from that volume.Nothing, however, is found relative to his predecessor, Lawrence Washington.This John Rogers was a son of Rev. Nehemiah Rogers of Messing, and a grandson of Rev. Vincent Rogers of Stratford Bow, traditionally descended from the martyr.He was father of John Rogers, a merchant of Plymouth, who was created baronet Feb 21, 1698, and was ancestor of the late Lord Blachford.The book in Mr. Drake's catalogue bore the title ""Ohel or Bethshemesh; a Tabernacle of the Sun,"&c.Mr. Ford states that there is no printed title in the book he quotes from, but there is a written title, "Dod or Chartran, the Beloved,"&c., and that "Ohel or Bethshemesh" is the heading of one division of the work.Col. Chester, in his life of John Rogers, the martyr, pp 287-8, gives both titles in his list of the author's works."
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