Abigail Rogers

Descendant of Mayflower passengers Thomas and Joseph Rogers

Descendant of Ephraim & Elizabeth (Brewster), grand daughter of Major William, and great-grand daughter of Governor William Bradford and descendant of Mayflower passenger Mary (May) Bradford.

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Abigail (Holmes) Rogers (1746 - aft. 1829)

Abigail Rogers formerly Holmes

Born 6 Jul 1746 in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Daughter of Peleg Holmes and Abigail (Bradford) Holmes

Sister of Abigail Holmes, Deborah Holmes, Peleg Holmes, Elizabeth (Holmes) Winslow, Lydia Holmes, Nathaniel Holmes, Mary (Holmes) Eldridge, Sarah (Holmes) Bailey, Lucy (Holmes) Clements and Unnamed Holmes

Wife of Cornelius Rogers — married 16 Dec 1763 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

Mother of Deborah (Rogers) Clements, Abigail (Rogers) Durkee, John Rogers, Lydia (Rogers) Saunders, Hannah (Rogers) Hilton, Cornelius Rogers, Benjamin Rogers, Elizabeth (Rogers) Landers and Sarah Rogers

Died after 6 Nov 1829 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

Biography

Abigail Holmes was born July 6, 1746, the daughter of Peleg and Abigail Holmes of Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts[1] [2]

In 1762, she moved to Yarmouth Nova Scotia with her family.

On December 16, 1763, she married Cornelius Rogers , the son of Benjamin Rogers and Phebe Harding of Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, who moved to Yarmouth the same year as Abigail's family[3]

Their children included:

Deborah, born October 1, 1764, who married Captain Elkanah Clements, son of John, and died November 6, 1849[3]
Abigail, born March 9, 1766, who married Robert Durkee son of Phineas[3] John, born January 28, 1768, who married Dorcas Horton, daughter of Levi, then married Hannah (Crocker) Ellis, widow of Ezekiel, and then married Lydia (Bartlett) Kinney, widow of Thomas, and who died December 8, 1850[3] Lydia, born May 4, 1771, who married Nathaniel Saunders son of Joseph, on June 19, 1794[3] Hannah, born October 21, 1772, who married Captain Amos Hilton son of Amos Hilton on April 4, 1790, and who died November 26, 1866[3] Cornelius 2nd, born February 26, 1775, who married Martha Horton, daughter of Levi, and died December 6, 1845[3] Benjamin, born May 22, 1777, who married Deborah Crocker, daughter of Daniel on January 28, 1801[3] Elizabeth, born January 23, 1780, who married Sealed Landers 3rd, son of Sealed Landers 2nd[3] Sarah, born August 26, 1782, who married John Trask 2nd, son of Thomas[3] These sources don't provide death information for Abigail

Sources

↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4P9-1JN : 13 July 2016), Peleg Holmes in entry for Abigail Holmes, 06 Jul 1746; citing Birth, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 910,367. ↑ Bradford, William, Volume 22, page 505 Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700-1880. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017). From Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1975-2015. See person #504 Abigail Holmes5 (Abigail4 Bradford, Ephraim3, William2-1) ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Genealogies : Transcribed from the Yarmouth Herald, by George S. Brown; prepared for publication by Martha & William Reamy, assisted by John McDonald Hilton ... et al.; published in Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., c1993. ISBN: 0806313722; page 275, 276, 517

From her Thomas Rogers Society page:

http://www.thomasrogerssociety.com/p106.htm#i3252

Abigail Holmes [1]

• F,
• b. 6 July 1746,
• d. after 6 November 1829

Abigail Holmes was born on 6 July 1746 at Kingston, Massachusetts.[1],[2]

She married Cornelius Rogers, son of Benjamin Rogers and Phebe Harding, on 16 December 1763 at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.[1]

Abigail Holmes died after 6 November 1829.[1]

Children of Abigail Holmes and Cornelius Rogers

• 1. Abigail Rogers+[1] b. 9 Mar 1766, d. b 1 Jul 1817
• 2. John Rogers+ b. 28 Jan 1768, d. 8 Dec 1850

Citations

• 1. [S29] Lineage application of TRS-652-0762.
• 2. [S32] Lineage application of TRS-654L-762.

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