Lieut.-Col. James Rogers
1726-1790

Born in Ireland, Rogers emigrated with his family to
Massachusetts Bay Colony about 1730. During the Seven Years'
War he served in the Queen's Rangers (Roger's Rangers),
a provincial corps raised by his brother Robert, and was
present at the capture of Louisbourg and of Quebec. In the
American Revolution he commanded the 2nd Battalion, King's
Rangers, thereby forfeiting some 20,230 ha in the old colonies.
In 1784 he led a party of about 300 disbanded King's Rangers
and their families to this vicinity where they were granted
land. Rogers, who first settled in Fredericksburgh, where he
became lieutenant-colonel of the militia, lived for a time
in Prince Edward County but returned to this township
before his death.

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