William Rogers, son ofWilliam and Grace Rogers, married Mary Davis, daughter of David and Martha Davis. [1] [2] [3]
The children of William Rogers and Mary Davis were listed in records of the Upper Evesham meeting of Burlington County. [4]
"Mr. Wills ... was united in marriage March 25, 1818, to Rachel, daughter of William and Mary (Davis) Rogers, a granddaughter of William Rogers, an elder in the Friends' Society at Evesham (now Mount Laurel), and a regular descendant from John Rogers, the progenitor of the Rogers family in New Jersey. Mary Davis was also an elder in the Friends' Society. Rachel Rogers was born on the* Rogers homestead, near Mount Laurel, Feb. 27, 1791, was a devoted wife, mother, and Christian woman, and died April 20, 1868." [5]
A biosketch [6] reports:
William, eldest son, was father of our subject; married, Feb. 26, 1789, Mary Davis, an elder of the Friends' Meeting, who died July 15, 1840. Their children were Martha, born Jan. 26, 1790, died Feb. 26, 1795 ; Rachel, born Feb. 27, 1791, wife of Zebedee M. Wills, of Evesham, died April 20, 1868 ; Grace, born June 21, 1793, wife of Thomas Ballinger, of Evesham, died July 28, 1873; Josiah, born Jan. 9, 1795, was a carpenter, and died Sept. 11, 1821 ; David, born Jan. 4, 1797, a farmer in Evesham, died March 30, 1879 ; Mary, born Feb. 11, 1799, wife of Joab Wills, of Evesham, died Oct. 22, 1824; Ann, born May 21, 1801, died April 7, 1837; Allen, born May 14, 1803, a farmer in Evesham, died March 13, 1861 ; Joseph, born May 14, 1805, a tailor in Philadelphia, died Jan. 16, 1833; William D., born Oct. 2, 1807, subject of this sketch ; and Benjamin, born Sept. 21, 1810, resided in Evesham, and died Sept. 15, 1835.
The father of this large family of children died Sept. 27, 1824. From the time of his marriage until 1808 he resided on a farm near Medford, at which time he removed to the homestead, to which he succeeded upon the death of his father, four years afterwards, and there spent the remainder of his life. Like his father before him, who was one of the founders of the Evesham Society of Friends at Mount Laurel, and left funds at his death for its support, so he was also a liberal contributor to the interests of the society, and an active and zealous member of it.
William Rogers, born 2nd month, 12th day, 1768, son of William and Grace Rogers married Mary Davis, born 3rd month, 1st day, 1768, daughter of David and Martha Davis on 2nd month, 26th day, 1789, Upper Springfield Meeting, Burlington. Names children. [7]
[1] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Abstracts of Marriages, Births, Deaths of Shrewsbury Meeting (Monmouth County, New Jersey), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[2] Richard Haines, George Haines, Charles Stokes. Genealogy of the Stokes Family (1903), 65, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[3] Richard Haines, Ancestry of the Haines, Sharp, Collins, Wills, Gardiner, Prickett, Eves, Evans, Moore, Troth, Borton, and Engle Families (1902), 289, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[4] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Abstracts of Marriages, Births, Deaths of Shrewsbury Meeting (Monmouth County, New Jersey), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[5] Major E. M. Woodward and John Hageman, History of Burlington and Mercer Counties, New Jersey (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1883), 326, [HathiTrust].
[6] Major E. M. Woodward and John Hageman, History of Burlington and Mercer Counties, New Jersey (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1883), 376, [HathiTrust].
[7] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 3 (1995), 77, 78.