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• Birth	1652	Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut
  Gender	Female
  Died	27 Jul 1727	Lyme, New London County, Connecticut
  Person ID	I74570	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	07 May 2005 00:00:00
  Family 1	John (Rev.) ROGERS, b. 1 Dec 1648, Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut
  Married	17 Oct 1670	Blackwall, Lyme, New London County, Connecticut   [3, 4]
  Divorced	Yes, date unknown
  Children	> 1. John ROGERS, b. 20 Mar 1673/1674, New London, New London County, Connecticut   2. Elizabeth ROGERS, b. 8 Nov 1671
  Family ID	F28166	Group Sheet
  Married	5 Aug 1679	2nd husband
  Family ID	F31985	Group Sheet
  Married	1691	3rd husband
  Family ID	F31986	Group Sheet

• Notes	Source: Please cite original sources. Compiled by: J. K. Loren

• Sources

  [S201] A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of those who came before May 16, James Savage, (Boston: 1860 - 1862, Reprint: Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, Maryland, 1965), vol. 3, p. 563. ROGERS, JOHN, New London, s[on]. of James the first, m[arried]. 17 Oct. 1670, Elizabeth d[aughter]. of Matthew Griswold, had Elizabeth b[orn]. 8 Nov. 16571; and John, 20 Mar. 1674; began, bef[ore]. the end of this y[ea]r. to assert opinions and follow forms in relig[ion]. wh[ich]. disgust[ed]. his w[ife]. wh[o]. desir[ed]. divorce next y[ea]r. and aft[er]. 18 mo[nth]s. gain[ed]. the reluct[ant]. assent of the C[our]t. wh[ich]. allow[ed]. her to retain both the ch[ildren]. Yet as the ch[ildren]. grew up, they took to their f[ather]. perhaps bec[ause]. the mo[ther]. had m[arried]. 5 Aug. 1679, Peter Pratt, and, in 1691, a third h[usband]. Matthew Beckwith. He was found[er]. of a new sect. call[ed]. Rogerenes, but tho[ugh]. he had the glory of kn[owing]. that his writings were condemn[ed]. and burn[t]. as pestilent heresies, yet without caus[ing]. much light to be spread, the schism went off soon aft[er]. his d[eath]. wh[ich]. was 17 Oct. 1721. A sec[ond]. w[ife]. Mary Ransford cause[d] him more trouble than the first. [S201] A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of those who came before May 16, James Savage, (Boston: 1860 - 1862, Reprint: Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, Maryland, 1965), vol. 2, p. 317. GRISWOLD, MATTHEW, Saybrook ... the ds. all m. Elizabeth 17 Oct. 1670 to John Rogers of New London, the found. of the sect of Rogerenes; and being 12 Oct. 1676 divorc. from him m. 5 Aug. 1679, Peter Pratt, wh. d. 1688, and she had in 1694, third h. Matthew Beckwith, and bore ch. to ea, and d. July 1727 [S213] James Rogers of New London, Connecticut, and His Descendants, James Swift Rogers, (Boston, Massachusetts: 1902), p. 42. [S957] History of New London, Connecticut, From the First Survey of the Coast in 1612 to 1860, Frances Manwaring Caulkins, (Heritage Books, Inc.), vol. 1, p. 208.