IMMIGRANT Giles Fitz Rogers^[1]

1642 - 1730  (88 years)

• Name	Giles Fitz Rogers
  Title	IMMIGRANT
  Born	1642	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
  Gender	Male
  Died	1730	Dunkirk, King and Queen, Virginia Colony
  Person ID	I21334	My Reynolds Line
  Last Modified	25 Sep 2020

  
  

  Family	Rachael/Rachel Lucie Eastham,   b. 1643, Worchestershire, England ,   d. 1735, Dunkirk, King and Queen, Virginia Colony  (Age 92 years)
  Married	1672	Worcestershire, England
  Children	+ 1. Peter Iverson Rogers, Sr.,   b. 1680,   d. 1768, Dunkirk, King and Queen, Virginia Colony  (Age 88 years)
  Last Modified	25 Sep 2020
  Family ID	F7979	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  [S100] Internet Source, http://people.virginia.edu/~rtg2t/kin/data/Kith.and.Kin.txt. THE ROGERS LINE Mary Rogers of Albemarle, wife of Richard Sampson of ?Dover,? daughter of John Rogers and Susan Goodman, descended from Giles Rogers from Worcestershire, England, where many of the name dwelt. In the ?Lists of Persons of Quality Sent into His Majesty?s Dominions of the Virginias 1686-1700,? published in London from State Papers in 1874, there are long pathetic lines of names in receipts given by captains of vessels. They bought the political prisoners after Monmouth?s Rebellion from Court favorites to whom they were ?assigned?; and disposed of them in the Virginias and the Barbadoes as ?indentured servants.? Many of these were of the best blood of the West of England, people of breeding and education. They were nearly all Protestants of a strong type, who were at the end of hope and patience under Charles II, and saw only worse things ahead under James II; therefore they espoused the forlorn hope of Monmouth, ?a very sorry sort of prince.? In these lists, the names of more than one Rogers, more than one Tucker and other of our ?good? Virginia names appears. It tells the ?quality? of these folk. But Giles Rogers had come long before and was not ?sent? to the Virginias. He was the great-grandson of John Rogers the Martyr, undoubtedly of the non-conforming breed. There are indications that he sympathized with the ejected ministers, the 2,000 who were turned out of their livings August 23, 1662, by Charles II. ?Head of the Church,? because they would not conform to the exactions of the High Church Bishops?the Bishops who were ?friendly? to Charles? duchesses and unfriendly to John Bunyan! Giles may well have been one of that two thousand men of conscience himself. In Virginia he patented April 18, 1670, four hundred acres in New Kent County, now King and Queen ?in the Parish of Stratton-Major, upon the road Pascataway.? He brought with him eight persons: John Evans, Thos. Clinker, Francis Melbourne, Jane Swann, Symeon Swart, Jacob Morton, Thos. Smith and Hannah Clark. He returned to England and came back in 1680 with his ?wife, children, servants and materials for building.? Giles and Rachel Eastham left six children: 1. Giles, Jr., had large family; moved to North Carolina. 2. Lucy married Wm. Wilson; her daughter, Eliz. Anne, married Johnathan Clark. 3. Peter, who had land in King-and-Queen and Spottsylvania, out of which Orange and Culpeper were formed: sons Col. Peter, Jr., and Capt. John, Joseph, Wm. and others. Descendants in Tennessee, Illinois and Nebraska. Wm?s. sons: Larkin, killed in Revolutionary War; John and Wm., Jr., large family in Montgomery County, Ky. 4. John married Mary Byrd. 5. Rachel, born in Virginia, married Wm. Latham. ?John C. Latham, New York and ?Moorheads? (Moreheads) of North Carolina descendants.? 6. Mary Anne married Saml. Roe or Rowe, from them Courts of Kentucky. Giles, father of all these, is recorded in the Parish of Stratton-Major, and is shown to be a man of education and importance. Yet in the Parish Book preserved in the Library of the Alexandria Seminary, with all its detailed business of the Church and its people, I found no mention of any Rogers, though they were ?landholders and housekeepers.? Some of Giles? descendants resent the idea of his being one of those saintly men ejected from the English pulpit: they indignantly disclaim the Martyr; in fact, they disapprove the Martyr entirely! Do you remember the notices we saw in the Chapel of Christ Church College, Oxford, where a vandal hand had changed the R. of Reformation to a D.? However, the late Col. John Cox Underwood, LieutenantGovernor of Kentucky, son of the Senator from Kentucky and uncle of the present Senator from Alabama, spent much time and money and the energies of his brilliant trained mind, investigating the Martyr descent, assisted by his uncle, Hon. W. L. Underwood, M. C., while he was United States Consul at Glasgow. He discovered and visited descendants still living in England, possessing relics and genealogies. He found the records of Giles? birth in Edinburgh, of his removal ?back? to Worcester, of his marriage there to Rachel Eastham: the proof that his father, John Rogers, was the son of Thomas Matthew Rogers (both born in ?Scotland?s refuge?), son of Bernard (Bernhardt) Rogers, born in Wittenburg, Saxony, when John Rogers was translating the ?Matthew Byble,? having married Adrianna de Weyden, a name meaning ?meadow,? which he wrote in Latin ?Prata? and in English Pratt. The succession of names is significant: Bernhardt of the exile in Germany, Matthew of the hiding of the Rogers name as translator, John for the Martyr himself, Giles for Edinburgh?s great church. Miss Jessup, granddaughter of Lucy Clark, Mrs. Croghan, herself great-granddaughter of Giles, went to England and pursued an independent search with the same result. The Martyr?s name reappeared in Giles? youngest son, John, born on the ship as it entered Chesapeake Bay. He obtained a good education and became an explorer and surveyor, patenting land himself. In the journeys of his profession, he met and loved Mary Byrd, daughter of the first Wm. Byrd and sister of the more famous Wm. Byrd of Westover, author of the ?Byrd Papers.? Old Col. Byrd disowned his daughter and her children, but the blood ran true to type in some of its qualities, and the same gallant and adventurous spirit which made three generations of Wm. Byrds leaders in early Virginia and overcame the difficulties of the Dividing Line, upheld Mary?s sons and grandsons as officers in the War for Independence and pioneers in the dangerous settlement days in Kentucky on the ?Bloody Ground?: and in greater hardships when Gen. George Rogers Clark was breasting the icy waters of the Wabash for the conquest of Vincennes, or his brother, William Clark, was planting the standard of the United States with other Virginia hands on the shores of the Pacific. Perhaps Gen. Clark took his penchant for writing as shown in his diaries and minute account of his campaigns, from the same blood which inspired Wm. Byrd II to fill his voluminous journals and his famous ?Expeditions.? Expeditions ran in the family, and soldierly achievement; and as for statesmanship and public office, the great new territory found its Governor in a Rogers Clark, and Kentucky and Alabama have chosen Mary?s descendants and sent them to Congress and the Senate for as distinguished service as any Virginia had from the three Williams. But the scholarly brain, the literary hand, the orator?s tongue?the Byrd blood cannot claim it all: Oxford long before knew its Rogers, and the brain and pen that gave us, most memorable, our English Bible. And to tell its ?good news,? the children of John and Mary Rogers have nobly filled the pulpit and the bishop?s chair: there has been a great professor of divinity, and those preparing for the ministry as well as ?the listening Senate? have heard. The spirit of adventure, too, is not dead, though turned to a different channel: with a Missionary ?Expedition? across the seas this Byrd-Rogers breed has gone to show the Orient that there is no ?dividing line,? but that all races are God?s children to be brought to Him. Twenty-one of John and Mary?s children are known to be in the ministry, and missionary service. But this glory was not within old Col. Byrd?s ken; and when his Mary smiled upon this unknown youngster, John Rogers, her father wrathfully forbade. John was young and a Nonconformist. It was not a question of religion so much; but to be of his faith, outside the Act of Conformity, in the Virginia of that day, shut out absolutely every opportunity of advancement. There could be no aggrandisement such as had built up the Byrd fortune, no acquisition of lands by royal grant, nothing but the limited acres which any freeman might obtain in the Colony?s hunger for settlers, or obtain later by patent or purchase. So John Rogers suffered for his faith, even as his name-ancestor John Rogers the Martyr. He did not lose his life. It seemed he must lose his sweetheart. But he was a bold and handsome gallant, a reckless and eager wooer. His courage upheld by Mary?s love, he declined to accept Col. Byrd?s verdict, and unafraid of the haughty old chieftain, he came rowing up the river again and again. In his old age, at ?Worcester,? the home named for the home County in England, he lived to be eighty-eight and she eighty-five, both well known to their grandchildren?he loved to tell them the romantic story. It concerned a certain tree with long drooping branches on the great river?s brink, where he moored. Mary could not welcome him in her father?s great house at Westover, but some evening with listening ear, she would hear a strange insistence in the whippoorwill?s call, the beloved one?s signal, and presently come gliding down to the river bank. John Rogers had a pride of his own, as stalwart as that of the Byrds, and he would not put even his foot on the old Colonel?s domain unwelcome, but the ?river yclept James,? was not private property and the lovers had many a meeting. Further, Mary would not go. Her mother needed her care, being an invalid, and she would not leave her. The rest of the family were absent. So Mary stayed by her, the mother for whom she was named. She had been Mary Horsemanden, daughter of Col. Warham Horsemanden, of the Virginia Council in London, with other influential and illustrious kinsmen. Finally in the father?s absence at Court in England, the mother died. Then, doubtless with that beloved mother?s blessing, Mary took passage in the boat that had come so often, and John did not go back alone: she married her persistent lover. When her father returned from England, furious at her disobedience, he disowned her. In his family record Mary?s birth is given, but no marriage and no death recorded. Bishop Meade mentions her as an unmarried daughter in 1698. The marriage was in 1701. Her father died in 1704. Bassett, who edited the Byrd papers, says: ?It is not known what became of Mary. She was living in 1700 when he named her in his will. She was not with him when he died in 1704.? A curious story was told by her granddaughter, Mrs. Underwood, and her brother, Edmund Rogers; both heard it from Mary Byrd Rogers? own lips. When Mary left ?Westover? with John Rogers, ?through pride? she took little from her father?s house; but she did carry away with her the ?hatchment? with coat-of-arms which had been used at her mother?s funeral, placed over the door, according to the custom of the day. This she hung in the hall of her new home, in memory of her beloved mother. After her father?s disowning of her, as has been told, he sent one day when she was absent from home and took away the hatchment, saying that the Byrd arms had no place in a Rogers house. It was a loss which Mary lamented to her dying day. But John said, ?What matter? we have arms of our own.? The old Ms. describes them as ?3 Bucks trippant.? Mary never saw any of her people after her marriage; but she had made her choice, and is reported ever to have counted the world well lost for John?s sake. He took good care of her; acquired a large property, patents in King-and-Queen, in King William and Caroline, and 1,400 acres in Albemarle. John Rogers lived to be 88 years old; his granddaughter, Mrs. Semple, daughter of his daughter, Rachel, says he was buried just outside the walls of Old Park Church near the grave of his father Giles, and beside his wife. They had nine children: John, Giles, George, Mary, Anne, Lucy, Mildred, Byrd and Rachel. 1. John removed to North Carolina; 2. Giles lived and died in Albemarle County, two, sons are known, Achilles; Parmenas, who married Anne Lewis and had sixteen children, the eldest, James, being the father of our dear Doctor Wm. G. Rogers who welcomed you children into the world. The second son of Parmenas was Raphael whose son Col. George Rogers was the father of the Norfolk Rogerses. It seems that this Giles was a scholar! III. George, son of John Rogers and Mary Byrd, married Frances Pollard and, like his parents, had nine children: Joseph, John, Lucy, Edmund, Anne, Frances, Thomas, Mary Byrd, Mildred: 1. Joseph?s story was a sad one, too common in those perilous days. He was Captain of Virginia troops against the Indians, was taken captive while bravely fighting and was carried away to the Mississippi River. His people mourned him dead, knowing the cruelty of his captors. He made many efforts to escape, but in vain. At length the tribe that held him came East to fight against troops under Joseph?s own cousin, George Rogers Clark. The lines approached each other at a place eight miles from where Cincinnati now stands, and a fight began which was to end in victory for the Virginians and the flight of the savages; when out rushed a figure with hands uplifted, crying out, ?Joseph Rogers! Joseph Rogers!? His voice was lost in the general clamour, and he forgot how the years and the Indian garb had changed his appearance. Both sides fired at once and he fell mortally wounded. He lived some hours, and when his cousin, General Clark, reproached him for his recklessness, he replied, ?Oh, I have been so often disappointed, it was my only hope!? General Clark buried him under an old house standing near, and then burned the house, so that the Indians might not return, find his body and take the scalp. His sister, Frances, who had married John Underwood, named her son for her lost brother: this son was afterwards Senator from Kentucky with Henry Clay. His namesake daughter Josephine was the wife of my brother, Henry Woods, and with him a missionary in China. Talking with her here, the spring of 1919, about this tragedy, she told me that her father had a similar experience. A boy of 16 he was taken captive, but allowed to run the gauntlet for his life. He watched others tried before his turn came, and noticed that they kept the middle between the two long lines of Indians hurling their short spears with fatal effect. When his time came, he surprised them by swiftly taking to one side so close to one rank they had not room to throw, and the other rank at longer range, often missed as he sped rapidly. Though sore wounded, he escaped and fell in the woods beyond, hid till night; then started home. Senator Joseph Rogers Underwood was the grandfather of Oscar Underwood, the present Senator from Alabama, and Leader of the Democratic party. 2. John, son of George and Frances Rogers, was also a captain, was at Yorktown, therefore one of the Cincinnati. He died unmarried in Richmond and was buried there. His niece, Mrs. Sally Anne Crutchfield, had his portrait. 3. Lucy, ?famous as a beauty and a belle,? said her aunt, boasting of the numbers of her offers of marriage, married Robert Farish and moved to North Carolina. Had two children. 4. Edmund married Mary Shirley, ten children: Frances, Mary, John T. Anne-Brown, Henrietta, Swearingen, Ellen, Edmonia, Thomas and Mildred Lavinia. Frances married first Dr. Hardin, second John W. Beauchamp; children Edmund and John Alfred. Miss Edmonia Beauchamp, daughter of Edmund, collected great store of data and old letters: for much of the information I have I am indebted to her niece, Miss Fanny Beauchamp. 5. Anne Rogers, daughter of George and Frances, was nine years old when an adventure of the Revolutionary War befell her. She was visiting her grandparents the Pollards in Caroline. They one day went to a neighbor?s leaving Anne to the care of a negro woman, one of the upper servants. Suddenly the British appeared: with shrieks of terror every negro fled to the woods, leaving little Anne alone in the house. The red coats rushed in, ransacking the lower rooms and breaking into the wine cellar, where, after drinking all they wished, they opened all the taps, letting the contents flow out on the floor. But little Anne had a word to say! Hearing the commotion, she came flying down upon the scene, just as the liquors began to flow. Indignant, with blazing eyes, she fearlessly berated the soldiers, threatening to tell her grandfather on them! Whereupon they desisted with uproarious laughter, and one of them?perhaps with remembrance of a little girl of his own?picked her up in his arms and carried her back to the upstairs bedroom. ?You stay right here, little lady,? he said, ?now don?t you move, and I promise you no more harm shall be done.? And so it proved. The grandparents returned terrified, to return thanks for little Anne?s safety and her fearless courage. She married John Farish and removed to Barron County, Ky. Five children: Lucy, Fanny, Edmund, George and Mary Byrd. 6. Frances married John Underwood, son of Thos. Underwood, vestryman Goochland County, 1783; her son named for the brother so tragically lost, was, as has been stated, Joseph Rogers Underwood, Senator from Kentucky with Henry Clay. He married twice, first Eliza Trotter, and second Elizabeth Cox, a belle of Georgetown, D. C. Sixteen children in all. The youngest, Josephine, his namesake, married my brother, Rev. Henry Woods, and went with him a missionary to China. The oldest of the sixteen was Eugene, the father of Wm. Underwood, of Birmingham, Ala., and of Oscar Underwood, Senator from Alabama, leader of the Democrats in Congress and strongly favored for President in 1916. He married first Eugenia Massie, one of the Virginia University?s loveliest belles: lovely, like her sister, Nita, Mrs. Malvern Patterson, as I knew them from childhood. John T Rogers, son of Edmund and Mary Shirley, married Olivia Lewis, a descendant of our Francis Sampson, though his great-granddaughter, Elizabeth Barbara, who married first Capt. Robards, and second Joseph Lewis, Jr. John and Olivia had their home ?Beechlands? full of happy children, ten of them. Mary Kate married James E. Gorin, five children; Fanny Olivia married U. Porter, four children; John Lewis married Eugenia Reed; Anne Eliza married E. Y. Kilgore: her children are John Lewis; Bolton Garrett; Mary, the wife of Rev. S. D. Gordon, who has given to so many help and comfort in his ?Quiet Hour? books; Edward Murray; Reed Shaw; and Evelyn Byrd, the wife of Dr. Batman. To Mrs. Kilgore I am greatly indebted for the use of her memoranda, and her delightful and encouraging letters, and I am glad we are doubly related to her. Her younger brothers and sisters are Edmund Pendleton married Stella Fowler, two children; Joseph Underwood married Kate Trabue, three children; Harriet; Ellen, the wife of Rev. C. W. Robinson, three children; Lucy Porter, the wife of Hon. James M. Richardson, seven children, and Evelyn Byrd, wife of C. W. Thompson. James M. Richardson is himself related to me, descended from that Richard Woods, so prominent in early Augusta and Botetourt annals. He is a successful editor, and was member of Congress from his district. His father was Rev. James M. Richardson, captain and chaplain, killed at Kennesaw Mt., ?the best and bravest.? His wife, Mary Frances, was the daughter of Rev. Hervey Woods and Cecilia Hall, who had seven children; one was Hon. Thos. Hall Woods, judge of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, the father of Mrs. Robert T. Goit, of our Mission in Korea. The Richardsons have six living children. Their daughter, Lucy Rogers Richardson, has been head chief aide of Occupational Therapy since the World War. Her brother, Joseph Rogers Richardson, is the editor of the Glasgow Kentucky Times, owned by his father for forty years. Jane, daughter of Senator Joseph R. Underwood, by his first wife, married her cousin, Judge George Clark Rogers, and it was their daughter, Evelyn Byrd, who was so charming and welcome at Pantops. Col. John Cox, brother to the second wife, came to visit his sister, fell in love with her stepdaughter Julia and married her: their daughter is the Laura Lee Cox whom you know and admire and who was with us often when her aunt-cousin, Josephine Woods, was at 'Pantops.' [S18] Family Search, LDS, https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LY9M-T7P/rachel-lucie-eastham%2C-english-immigrant-1643-1735. Rachel Lucie Eastham, English Immigrant 1643-1735 Birth, 1643, Worcestershire, England Death, 1735, Dunkirk, King and Queen, Virginia [S100] Internet Source, http://people.virginia.edu/~rtg2t/kin/data/Kith.and.Kin.txt. THE ROGERS LINE Mary Rogers of Albemarle, wife of Richard Sampson of 'Dover,' daughter of John Rogers and Susan Goodman, descended from Giles Rogers from Worcestershire, England, where many of the name dwelt. In the 'Lists of Persons of Quality Sent into His Majesty's Dominions of the Virginias 1686-1700,' published in London from State Papers in 1874, there are long pathetic lines of names in receipts given by captains of vessels. They bought the political prisoners after Monmouth's Rebellion from Court favorites to whom they were 'assigned'; and disposed of them in the Virginias and the Barbadoes as 'indentured servants.' Many of these were of the best blood of the West of England, people of breeding and education. They were nearly all Protestants of a strong type, who were at the end of hope and patience under Charles II, and saw only worse things ahead under James II; therefore they espoused the forlorn hope of Monmouth, 'very sorry sort of prince.'In these lists, the names of more than one Rogers, more than one Tucker and other of our 'good' Virginia names appears. It tells the 'quality' of these folk. But Giles Rogers had come long before and was not 'sent' to the Virginias. He was the great-grandson of John Rogers the Martyr, undoubtedly of the non-conforming breed. There are indications that he sympathized with the ejected ministers, the 2,000 who were turned out of their livings August 23, 1662, by Charles II. 'Head of the Church,' because they would not conform to the exactions of the High Church Bishops?the Bishops who were ?friendly? to Charles? duchesses and unfriendly to John Bunyan! Giles may well have been one of that two thousand men of conscience himself. In Virginia he patented April 18, 1670, four hundred acres in New Kent County, now King and Queen ?in the Parish of Stratton-Major, upon the road Pascataway.? He brought with him eight persons: John Evans, Thos. Clinker, Francis Melbourne, Jane Swann, Symeon Swart, Jacob Morton, Thos. Smith and Hannah Clark. He returned to England and came back in 1680 with his ?wife, children, servants and materials for building.? Giles and Rachel Eastham left six children: 1. Giles, Jr., had large family; moved to North Carolina. 2. Lucy married Wm. Wilson; her daughter, Eliz. Anne, married Johnathan Clark. 3. Peter, who had land in King-and-Queen and Spottsylvania, out of which Orange and Culpeper were formed: sons Col. Peter, Jr., and Capt. John, Joseph, Wm. and others. Descendants in Tennessee, Illinois and Nebraska. Wm?s. sons: Larkin, killed in Revolutionary War; John and Wm., Jr., large family in Montgomery County, Ky. 4. John married Mary Byrd. 5. Rachel, born in Virginia, married Wm. Latham. ?John C. Latham, New York and ?Moorheads? (Moreheads) of North Carolina descendants.? 6. Mary Anne married Saml. Roe or Rowe, from them Courts of Kentucky. Giles, father of all these, is recorded in the Parish of Stratton-Major, and is shown to be a man of education and importance. Yet in the Parish Book preserved in the Library of the Alexandria Seminary, with all its detailed business of the Church and its people, I found no mention of any Rogers, though they were ?landholders and housekeepers.? Some of Giles? descendants resent the idea of his being one of those saintly men ejected from the English pulpit: they indignantly disclaim the Martyr; in fact, they disapprove the Martyr entirely! Do you remember the notices we saw in the Chapel of Christ Church College, Oxford, where a vandal hand had changed the R. of Reformation to a D.? However, the late Col. John Cox Underwood, LieutenantGovernor of Kentucky, son of the Senator from Kentucky and uncle of the present Senator from Alabama, spent much time and money and the energies of his brilliant trained mind, investigating the Martyr descent, assisted by his uncle, Hon. W. L. Underwood, M. C., while he was United States Consul at Glasgow. He discovered and visited descendants still living in England, possessing relics and genealogies. He found the records of Giles? birth in Edinburgh, of his removal ?back? to Worcester, of his marriage there to Rachel Eastham: the proof that his father, John Rogers, was the son of Thomas Matthew Rogers (both born in ?Scotland?s refuge?), son of Bernard (Bernhardt) Rogers, born in Wittenburg, Saxony, when John Rogers was translating the ?Matthew Byble,? having married Adrianna de Weyden, a name meaning ?meadow,? which he wrote in Latin ?Prata? and in English Pratt. The succession of names is significant: Bernhardt of the exile in Germany, Matthew of the hiding of the Rogers name as translator, John for the Martyr himself, Giles for Edinburgh?s great church. Miss Jessup, granddaughter of Lucy Clark, Mrs. Croghan, herself great-granddaughter of Giles, went to England and pursued an independent search with the same result. The Martyr?s name reappeared in Giles? youngest son, John, born on the ship as it entered Chesapeake Bay. He obtained a good education and became an explorer and surveyor, patenting land himself. In the journeys of his profession, he met and loved Mary Byrd, daughter of the first Wm. Byrd and sister of the more famous Wm. Byrd of Westover, author of the ?Byrd Papers.? Old Col. Byrd disowned his daughter and her children, but the blood ran true to type in some of its qualities, and the same gallant and adventurous spirit which made three generations of Wm. Byrds leaders in early Virginia and overcame the difficulties of the Dividing Line, upheld Mary?s sons and grandsons as officers in the War for Independence and pioneers in the dangerous settlement days in Kentucky on the ?Bloody Ground?: and in greater hardships when Gen. George Rogers Clark was breasting the icy waters of the Wabash for the conquest of Vincennes, or his brother, William Clark, was planting the standard of the United States with other Virginia hands on the shores of the Pacific. Perhaps Gen. Clark took his penchant for writing as shown in his diaries and minute account of his campaigns, from the same blood which inspired Wm. Byrd II to fill his voluminous journals and his famous ?Expeditions.? Expeditions ran in the family, and soldierly achievement; and as for statesmanship and public office, the great new territory found its Governor in a Rogers Clark, and Kentucky and Alabama have chosen Mary?s descendants and sent them to Congress and the Senate for as distinguished service as any Virginia had from the three Williams. But the scholarly brain, the literary hand, the orator?s tongue?the Byrd blood cannot claim it all: Oxford long before knew its Rogers, and the brain and pen that gave us, most memorable, our English Bible. And to tell its ?good news,? the children of John and Mary Rogers have nobly filled the pulpit and the bishop?s chair: there has been a great professor of divinity, and those preparing for the ministry as well as ?the listening Senate? have heard. The spirit of adventure, too, is not dead, though turned to a different channel: with a Missionary ?Expedition? across the seas this Byrd-Rogers breed has gone to show the Orient that there is no ?dividing line,? but that all races are God?s children to be brought to Him. Twenty-one of John and Mary?s children are known to be in the ministry, and missionary service. But this glory was not within old Col. Byrd?s ken; and when his Mary smiled upon this unknown youngster, John Rogers, her father wrathfully forbade. John was young and a Nonconformist. It was not a question of religion so much; but to be of his faith, outside the Act of Conformity, in the Virginia of that day, shut out absolutely every opportunity of advancement. There could be no aggrandisement such as had built up the Byrd fortune, no acquisition of lands by royal grant, nothing but the limited acres which any freeman might obtain in the Colony?s hunger for settlers, or obtain later by patent or purchase. So John Rogers suffered for his faith, even as his name-ancestor John Rogers the Martyr. He did not lose his life. It seemed he must lose his sweetheart. But he was a bold and handsome gallant, a reckless and eager wooer. His courage upheld by Mary?s love, he declined to accept Col. Byrd?s verdict, and unafraid of the haughty old chieftain, he came rowing up the river again and again. In his old age, at ?Worcester,? the home named for the home County in England, he lived to be eighty-eight and she eighty-five, both well known to their grandchildren?he loved to tell them the romantic story. It concerned a certain tree with long drooping branches on the great river?s brink, where he moored. Mary could not welcome him in her father?s great house at Westover, but some evening with listening ear, she would hear a strange insistence in the whippoorwill?s call, the beloved one?s signal, and presently come gliding down to the river bank. John Rogers had a pride of his own, as stalwart as that of the Byrds, and he would not put even his foot on the old Colonel?s domain unwelcome, but the ?river yclept James,? was not private property and the lovers had many a meeting. Further, Mary would not go. Her mother needed her care, being an invalid, and she would not leave her. The rest of the family were absent. So Mary stayed by her, the mother for whom she was named. She had been Mary Horsemanden, daughter of Col. Warham Horsemanden, of the Virginia Council in London, with other influential and illustrious kinsmen. Finally in the father?s absence at Court in England, the mother died. Then, doubtless with that beloved mother?s blessing, Mary took passage in the boat that had come so often, and John did not go back alone: she married her persistent lover. When her father returned from England, furious at her disobedience, he disowned her. In his family record Mary?s birth is given, but no marriage and no death recorded. Bishop Meade mentions her as an unmarried daughter in 1698. The marriage was in 1701. Her father died in 1704. Bassett, who edited the Byrd papers, says: ?It is not known what became of Mary. She was living in 1700 when he named her in his will. She was not with him when he died in 1704.? A curious story was told by her granddaughter, Mrs. Underwood, and her brother, Edmund Rogers; both heard it from Mary Byrd Rogers? own lips. When Mary left ?Westover? with John Rogers, ?through pride? she took little from her father?s house; but she did carry away with her the ?hatchment? with coat-of-arms which had been used at her mother?s funeral, placed over the door, according to the custom of the day. This she hung in the hall of her new home, in memory of her beloved mother. After her father?s disowning of her, as has been told, he sent one day when she was absent from home and took away the hatchment, saying that the Byrd arms had no place in a Rogers house. It was a loss which Mary lamented to her dying day. But John said, ?What matter? we have arms of our own.? The old Ms. describes them as ?3 Bucks trippant.? Mary never saw any of her people after her marriage; but she had made her choice, and is reported ever to have counted the world well lost for John?s sake. He took good care of her; acquired a large property, patents in King-and-Queen, in King William and Caroline, and 1,400 acres in Albemarle. John Rogers lived to be 88 years old; his granddaughter, Mrs. Semple, daughter of his daughter, Rachel, says he was buried just outside the walls of Old Park Church near the grave of his father Giles, and beside his wife. They had nine children: John, Giles, George, Mary, Anne, Lucy, Mildred, Byrd and Rachel. 1. John removed to North Carolina; 2. Giles lived and died in Albemarle County, two, sons are known, Achilles; Parmenas, who married Anne Lewis and had sixteen children, the eldest, James, being the father of our dear Doctor Wm. G. Rogers who welcomed you children into the world. The second son of Parmenas was Raphael whose son Col. George Rogers was the father of the Norfolk Rogerses. It seems that this Giles was a scholar! III. George, son of John Rogers and Mary Byrd, married Frances Pollard and, like his parents, had nine children: Joseph, John, Lucy, Edmund, Anne, Frances, Thomas, Mary Byrd, Mildred: 1. Joseph?s story was a sad one, too common in those perilous days. He was Captain of Virginia troops against the Indians, was taken captive while bravely fighting and was carried away to the Mississippi River. His people mourned him dead, knowing the cruelty of his captors. He made many efforts to escape, but in vain. At length the tribe that held him came East to fight against troops under Joseph?s own cousin, George Rogers Clark. The lines approached each other at a place eight miles from where Cincinnati now stands, and a fight began which was to end in victory for the Virginians and the flight of the savages; when out rushed a figure with hands uplifted, crying out, ?Joseph Rogers! Joseph Rogers!? His voice was lost in the general clamour, and he forgot how the years and the Indian garb had changed his appearance. Both sides fired at once and he fell mortally wounded. He lived some hours, and when his cousin, General Clark, reproached him for his recklessness, he replied, ?Oh, I have been so often disappointed, it was my only hope!? General Clark buried him under an old house standing near, and then burned the house, so that the Indians might not return, find his body and take the scalp. His sister, Frances, who had married John Underwood, named her son for her lost brother: this son was afterwards Senator from Kentucky with Henry Clay. His namesake daughter Josephine was the wife of my brother, Henry Woods, and with him a missionary in China. Talking with her here, the spring of 1919, about this tragedy, she told me that her father had a similar experience. A boy of 16 he was taken captive, but allowed to run the gauntlet for his life. He watched others tried before his turn came, and noticed that they kept the middle between the two long lines of Indians hurling their short spears with fatal effect. When his time came, he surprised them by swiftly taking to one side so close to one rank they had not room to throw, and the other rank at longer range, often missed as he sped rapidly. Though sore wounded, he escaped and fell in the woods beyond, hid till night; then started home. Senator Joseph Rogers Underwood was the grandfather of Oscar Underwood, the present Senator from Alabama, and Leader of the Democratic party. 2. John, son of George and Frances Rogers, was also a captain, was at Yorktown, therefore one of the Cincinnati. He died unmarried in Richmond and was buried there. His niece, Mrs. Sally Anne Crutchfield, had his portrait. 3. Lucy, ?famous as a beauty and a belle,? said her aunt, boasting of the numbers of her offers of marriage, married Robert Farish and moved to North Carolina. Had two children. 4. Edmund married Mary Shirley, ten children: Frances, Mary, John T. Anne-Brown, Henrietta, Swearingen, Ellen, Edmonia, Thomas and Mildred Lavinia. Frances married first Dr. Hardin, second John W. Beauchamp; children Edmund and John Alfred. Miss Edmonia Beauchamp, daughter of Edmund, collected great store of data and old letters: for much of the information I have I am indebted to her niece, Miss Fanny Beauchamp. 5. Anne Rogers, daughter of George and Frances, was nine years old when an adventure of the Revolutionary War befell her. She was visiting her grandparents the Pollards in Caroline. They one day went to a neighbor?s leaving Anne to the care of a negro woman, one of the upper servants. Suddenly the British appeared: with shrieks of terror every negro fled to the woods, leaving little Anne alone in the house. The red coats rushed in, ransacking the lower rooms and breaking into the wine cellar, where, after drinking all they wished, they opened all the taps, letting the contents flow out on the floor. But little Anne had a word to say! Hearing the commotion, she came flying down upon the scene, just as the liquors began to flow. Indignant, with blazing eyes, she fearlessly berated the soldiers, threatening to tell her grandfather on them! Whereupon they desisted with uproarious laughter, and one of them?perhaps with remembrance of a little girl of his own?picked her up in his arms and carried her back to the upstairs bedroom. ?You stay right here, little lady,? he said, ?now don?t you move, and I promise you no more harm shall be done.? And so it proved. The grandparents returned terrified, to return thanks for little Anne?s safety and her fearless courage. She married John Farish and removed to Barron County, Ky. Five children: Lucy, Fanny, Edmund, George and Mary Byrd. 6. Frances married John Underwood, son of Thos. Underwood, vestryman Goochland County, 1783; her son named for the brother so tragically lost, was, as has been stated, Joseph Rogers Underwood, Senator from Kentucky with Henry Clay. He married twice, first Eliza Trotter, and second Elizabeth Cox, a belle of Georgetown, D. C. Sixteen children in all. The youngest, Josephine, his namesake, married my brother, Rev. Henry Woods, and went with him a missionary to China. The oldest of the sixteen was Eugene, the father of Wm. Underwood, of Birmingham, Ala., and of Oscar Underwood, Senator from Alabama, leader of the Democrats in Congress and strongly favored for President in 1916. He married first Eugenia Massie, one of the Virginia University?s loveliest belles: lovely, like her sister, Nita, Mrs. Malvern Patterson, as I knew them from childhood. John T Rogers, son of Edmund and Mary Shirley, married Olivia Lewis, a descendant of our Francis Sampson, though his great-granddaughter, Elizabeth Barbara, who married first Capt. Robards, and second Joseph Lewis, Jr. John and Olivia had their home ?Beechlands? full of happy children, ten of them. Mary Kate married James E. Gorin, five children; Fanny Olivia married U. Porter, four children; John Lewis married Eugenia Reed; Anne Eliza married E. Y. Kilgore: her children are John Lewis; Bolton Garrett; Mary, the wife of Rev. S. D. Gordon, who has given to so many help and comfort in his ?Quiet Hour? books; Edward Murray; Reed Shaw; and Evelyn Byrd, the wife of Dr. Batman. To Mrs. Kilgore I am greatly indebted for the use of her memoranda, and her delightful and encouraging letters, and I am glad we are doubly related to her. Her younger brothers and sisters are Edmund Pendleton married Stella Fowler, two children; Joseph Underwood married Kate Trabue, three children; Harriet; Ellen, the wife of Rev. C. W. Robinson, three children; Lucy Porter, the wife of Hon. James M. Richardson, seven children, and Evelyn Byrd, wife of C. W. Thompson. James M. Richardson is himself related to me, descended from that Richard Woods, so prominent in early Augusta and Botetourt annals. He is a successful editor, and was member of Congress from his district. His father was Rev. James M. Richardson, captain and chaplain, killed at Kennesaw Mt., ?the best and bravest.? His wife, Mary Frances, was the daughter of Rev. Hervey Woods and Cecilia Hall, who had seven children; one was Hon. Thos. Hall Woods, judge of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, the father of Mrs. Robert T. Goit, of our Mission in Korea. The Richardsons have six living children. Their daughter, Lucy Rogers Richardson, has been head chief aide of Occupational Therapy since the World War. Her brother, Joseph Rogers Richardson, is the editor of the Glasgow Kentucky Times, owned by his father for forty years. Jane, daughter of Senator Joseph R. Underwood, by his first wife, married her cousin, Judge George Clark Rogers, and it was their daughter, Evelyn Byrd, who was so charming and welcome at Pantops. Col. John Cox, brother to the second wife, came to visit his sister, fell in love with her stepdaughter Julia and married her: their daughter is the Laura Lee Cox whom you know and admire and who was with us often when her aunt-cousin, Josephine Woods, was at ?Pantops.?