The Rogerenes: some hitherto unpublished annals belonging to the colonial history of Connecticut

Errors of historians regarding the Rogerenes. James Rogers 19-36 and his family. Rogerenes first people in Connecticut to denounce taxation without representation. Fines of the...

Rev. Mr. Saltonstall. His charge of blasphemy against John 37-50 Rogers. Statements of John Rogers, 2d, regarding this charge and the punishments inflicted upon John Rogers on a...

Truth and falsehood. Toleration not the word. The most 51-60 calumniated person in the world. “Blessed are ye when men shall persecute and revile you.” John Rogers and his follo...

Quotation from Peter Pratt’s calumnious work and quotations 61-72 from Reply of John Rogers, 2d, to same, giving account of the forced separation of John Rogers from his first w...

“Nine and twenty knives.” Rev. Gurdon Saltonstall, author of 73-80 a plot for the purpose of incarcerating John Rogers for life. John Roger’s account of this plot and the barbar...

Strictures on a Discourse delivered by Rev. Thomas P. Field 81-97 of “The First Church of Christ” of New London, 1870. Quotations from the work of John Bolles, entitled “True Li...

Further comments on the Half-Century Sermon of Rev. Mr. 98-120 McEwen. Posterity of the Rogerenes. Mention of prominent citizens of New London of Rogerene descent. Lawyers, mini...

James Rogers the Connecticut planter. Soldier in the Pequot 121-137 war, from Saybrook. At Stratford, at Milford, at New London. Is the principal business man of New London. His...

James Rogers and his wife and daughter are baptized by 138-155 immersion and become members of the church of which John Rogers is pastor. General Court grants the petition for d...

John Rogers, Jr., continued in custody of the Griswolds, on 156-169 account of the “hettridoxy” of his father. Rogerenes fined and imprisoned for “servile labor” on the first da...

Impaired condition of the widow of James Rogers, and 170-182 difficulties arising from this cause. John Rogers imprisoned for entertaining Quakers at his house. John Rogers cont...

John Rogers tried at Hartford on charge of blasphemy. Placed 183-194 on the gallows with a rope about his neck. Returned to Hartford prison for refusal to give bonds for “good b...

John Rogers returns to his Mamacock farm. Life at Mamacock. 195-211 Mary Ransford. Her attachment to John Rogers and willingness to become his wife in a manner differing from th...

John Bolles leaves the Congregational Church to join the 212-226 Rogerenes. His courageous stand. Mr. Saltonstall elected governor. Peter Pratt a Rogerene. Dilemma of John Roger...

Authorities pretend to fear that John Rogers may escape from 227-241 New London prison. He is placed in irons. Conveyed to the solitary and unfinished “inner prison.” At death’s...

Rogerenes aroused by attempts at more strict enforcement of 242-254 the ecclesiastical laws. A countermove. Specious public promise of Governor Saltonstall. Arrest of Sarah, wif...

John Waterhouse arrested and imprisoned for baptizing Joseph 255-267 Bolles. Countermove by John Bolles and wife. Seizure of Rogerene property for rebuilding Congregational meet...

Death of Mr. Saltonstall. The half-way covenant under his 268-283 ministry. Rogerenes scourged, in 1725, by Norwich authorities, for travelling on Sunday. John Bolle’s “Applicat...

Mather Byles installed in Congregational Church, 1757. His 284-297 character. His “sweetest enjoyment.” His efforts to reclaim the Rogerenes by sermons on the sanctity of the Sa...

Rogerenes in the new century (1800). Home of John 298-320 Waterhouse. Quakertown in that locality. Early Rogerenes of Groton. John Culver. Samuel Whipple. His iron works. Marria...

Peter Pratt. His scandalous book. The evident falsehoods in 321-341 that work. Proof of other intentionally incorrect statements in the same. Later historians, including Miss Ca...

An onward path we have to tread, We cannot see the way. Faith, love and hope their radiance shed, Here and thus far the years have led; But of the steps that lie ahead We know n...

This chapter contains the substance of several letters, originally published in the _New London Day_ (1860), in reply to an article which had previously appeared in that paper,...

In the contemplation of noble deeds, we become more noble, and by the just anathematizing of error our love of truth is made stronger. As the bee derives honey from nauseous sub...

As round and round it takes its flight, That lofty dweller of the skies, And never on the earth doth light, The fabled bird of Paradise; So would we soar on pinions bright, And...

One has said that an angel would feel as much honored in receiving a commission to sweep the streets as though called to a service higher in the world’s estimation. We confess t...

“Nine and twenty knives.”—Ezra i, 9. It would take more than that number of knives to sever the many threads of falsehood and malice wound about the name of John Rogers, a name...

It is with regret that we are compelled to make the following strictures upon “The Discourse Delivered on the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the First Church of Christ, in New Lon...

We had not intended to make further reply (see Chapter II) to Mr. McEwen’s Half-Century Sermon; but lest our silence should be construed by some as implying an inability to do s...

Among noticeable young men in the Colony of Connecticut, previous to 1640, is James Rogers.[27] His name first appears on record at New Haven, but shortly after, in 1637, he is...

Week by week, the little band of Bible students on the Great Neck are becoming more and more familiar with the contents of the New Testament. Heretofore they have, like the majo...

A youth is growing up at Lyme, in regard to whom Matthew Griswold and his daughter Elizabeth may well feel some concern, although it afterwards appears that he is one of the bri...

The children of James Rogers having petitioned the General Court to divide their father’s estate according to his will,—which was entered on record with their agreement thereto,...

It is (and is to be) a conspicuous feature of Mr. Saltonstall’s ministry that no experience of this kind is to be considered necessary to church membership; such a test as this...

1. For that in New London, in Feb. last, thou didst lay thy hand upon thy breast and say: This is the humane body of Christ, which words are presumptuous, absurd and of a blasph...

It would be interesting to know exactly what doctrine or doctrines were involved. By the occurrence of this suit so soon after John Roger’s release from an imprisonment on charg...

The long and close imprisonment of John Rogers in Hartford, attended as it was with a bitter sense of wrong, would seem sufficient to undermine the strongest constitution. To th...

releases him from his marriage bond. But since, by the law of God (“Mosaic” and still prevailing in the time of Christ), a man was allowed another than his first and chiefest wi...

Being ordered to take the oath, she is silent, as her husband has enjoined, while he declares to the court that this her child in his arms is his own. The court knows, as well a...

June 4, of this year, a complaint is made by Samuel Beebe against John Rogers, as executor of his father’s estate, for detaining from Samuel Beebe three cows, which, by the codi...

The home farm of John Bolles is half a mile south of that of John Rogers, on the same (Norwich) road, on a height of land known as Foxen’s Hill (later Bolles Hill), directly ove...

John Rogers asks to be tried by a jury, choosing the one then sitting, but Judge Saltonstall denies him trial by jury,—John Rogers has too many friends in these parts. There mus...

We left John Rogers on his way back to prison, there to remain until the March term of the Superior Court, because he would not promise “good behavior” (“as if I had misbehaved...

until this court for not giving the required bonds, we have seen him free at the time of his father’s escape to Long Island. The bonds were doubtless given by a friend, as frequ...

One of the spasmodic attempts to secure more strict enforcement of ecclesiastical laws is instituted about this period. Edicts have been issued by the General Court charging the...

Mr. Hempstead, in his usual brief style of chronicle, gives no further light upon this matter. By the records of the County Court, in the following June, it is shown that the Qu...

For some years after the death of John Rogers, no serious interference with the customs of the Rogerenes is recorded. The countermoves directly preceding that death should, by a...

It is not until 1757 that a new minister is installed over the Congregational church, in the person of Mr. Mather Byles, Jr., a talented and very resolute young man, twenty-thre...

In the new century, ecclesiastical persecutions are scarcely more than a tradition, save to the aged men and women still living who took part in their youth in the great counter...

Mr. J. R. Bolles has aptly compared the falsehoods sown by the author of “The Prey Taken from the Strong,” to dragon’s teeth constantly springing up anew (Part I, Chapter I). Wh...