Re: Another Free Lookup
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Another Free Lookup
April Barr 2/20/02
April, I am looking for Rogers ancestors in SC in the 18th c. And of course, as you would know, it could have been Rodgers. Specifically, names and info about parents of a Benjamin Rogers born in the Charleston area in 1784.He is a ggg uncle. My ggg grandmother was Elizabeth Rogers and md. a James Richard Lewis or Richard Lewis from N.C.They were married when they arrived in Wilkinson Co., GA, with their oldest child, an infant son, Thomas, in 1804. Elizabeth Rogers was born ca. 1773 and Richard Lewis ca. 1783, best guess.
Of Elizabeth and Benjamin's Rogers father, I only know that he was a Seven-Day Baptist, serious enough about observing the sabbath on Saturday to keep his (7-day) identity. Seven-Day Baptists came from Connecticutt to Pennsylvania, NJ, and down to the area of N.C. that Richard Lewis hailed from (Rockingham Co.) to the Broad River, Beaver Creek and Cloud's Creek area of S.C, and Edisto in Charleston Co.They also started a church across the border in GA, about 1740, but were driven out in a few years because they did not observe sabbath on Sunday. He took daughter Elizabeth (according to her acccount) and I suspect her mother to KY to help Seven-Day Baptists make the journey. I suspect it was as part of the Traveling Church that began in Spottsylvania Co., VA, in 1781-82, which had adherents as far south as Rockingham Co., NC.Elizabeth and Benjamin and their families became Primitive Baptists, with similar views, except for the sabbath.
If Benjamin (Maxwell?) Rogers was born in 1784, in Charleston, as his descendants hold, I suspect he had connections with the Seven-Day Baptists in Edisto. There were not many places for them and they were appaently somewhat particular about their associations.
Many in both families have sought to solve this ancestry problem Benjamin married Penelope West, daughter of John West of Gates Co., NC, and they moved to Jasper Co., GA (some think Benjamin and Elizabeth''s father did also) before Benjamin and his family moved on to Dallas Co., AL.
His descendants later moved on to TX. If you could come up with
info on Benjamins birth (and the names of his parents, or on Benjamin and Penelope's wedding (N.C., S.C.,, GA) or Elizabeth's wedding to Richard Lewis (N.C., S.C., GA) that would be indeed wonderful.
Or any one of these, or any suggestions.
Some of Benjamin's descendants have his parents listed as John Rogers and Sarah Yates of Charleston, but that belief is wrong.
Thank you very much for your kindness in offering these services.
Van
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