THOMAS ROGERS

• Birth Notes
  • Born: Bef 1572
    Watford, Northhampton, England 
    

• Death Notes
  • Died: 1621
    Plymouth , Ma 
    

• General Notes
  • Thomas Rogers
    BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:
    Thomas Rogers became a citizen of Leyden on 25 June 1618 with sponsors William Jepson and Roger Wilson, and is called a Camlet-merchant.  And just two years later, on 1 April 1620, he sold his house in Leyden before coming to America on the Mayflower.
    
    Thomas Rogers brought his son Joseph on the Mayflower.  He died the first winter, but his son Joseph survived. William Bradford in his Of Plymouth Plantation writes of Thomas Rogers:  "the rest of Thomas Rogers' [children] came over and are married and have many children."  
    
    In the 1622 poll tax for Leyden are listed his wife Elsgen (Alice), and daughters Lysbeth (Elizabeth) and Grietgen (Margaret), and son John.  John Rogers is known to have come to America and married, but unfortunately the whereabouts of Elizabeth and Margaret remain unknown, though Bradford seems to suggest they came to America and married.
    
    
    BORN:  before 1572; of Watford, Northampton, England, son of William Rogers and Eleanor (---)
    DIED:  the first winter, between January and March 1621, Plymouth
    MARRIED:  Alice Cosford (Elsgen = Alice in Dutch), 24 October 1597, Watford, Northampton, England, daughter of George Cosford.
    The often published descent of Thomas Rogers from John Rogers the Martyr is complete fiction.  Thomas Roger's true English origins were discovered in 1989 by Clifford Stott and published with supporting documentation in The Genealogist 10:138-149.  Thomas Rogers was the son of William and Eleanor Rogers, and grandson of William and Joan Rogers.  Thomas' marriage to Alice Cosford and his children's baptisms are all found in the parish registers of Watford, Northampton, England.
    
    
    
    

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