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This custom is a great inconvenience to family historians.)" (It was not particularly unusual in the seventeenth century for a man to give the same name to sons born of different wives. He died in 1727, leaving his plantation of 450 acres to his youngest son, also named William.
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In 1714, William was granted 220 acres on the south side of Blackwater Swamp in Surry. William Rogers and Elizabeth "Cartwright" Rogers children were: Shortly thereafter Jane died, and in 1686 William married Elizabeth Cartwright, daughter of Robert Cartwright. In 1685, William Rogers and Joshua Proctor were jointly granted 900 acres of land in Surry. There was only one surviving child of this marriage, a son named William born 1680 in Surry County, Virginia, and died probably 1769 in Sussex, Virginia. Sometime in 1678-79 he married Jane Owen, the widow of Bartholemew Owen In Surry Co., Virgina Tax Record. "William Rogers, the oldest surviving son of John and Mary Rogers, was born on Roger's Plantation, on the James River, in Surry County, Virginia, around 1657. Place: Surry, Surry, Virginia, United States Marriage Husband: William Rogers Wife: Elizabeth Cartwright Child: Joseph Rogers Record ID Number: MH:F154 Place: Albemarle, Stanly, North Carolina, United States Record ID Number Record ID Number: MH:I2215 Place: Surry, Virginia, United States Death Death: This was a system of Indentureship set up to populate Virginia and other states as quickly as possible." Name Name: William /Rogers/ You were allotted 50 acres per transferred person then, and they worked off either their passage paid for by the land holder or worked off their indentureship ( usually average is about 7 years of work) then gained tobacco for their own land purchase per indentureship and settlement procedures then. It is not unheard of for wives being used as headrights to gain more acreage by the land holder (but we cannot prove that Mary, wife of John Rogers, is Mary Eldridge). along Cypress Swamp in 1666, for transfer of 4 persons to him then, with one being Mary Eldridge. I think of the ATKINS as possibly being renters on John Rogers property in 1668 and also were included in the TITHABLES of John Rogers in 1668, 2 years after he acquired his 200 acres in Surry Co., Va. Thus Atkins could be male or female, who is head of their own household, living separate and apart from Jno. (John Rogers in this case.) and were head of their own household apart from the land holder (Jno. Rogers/ Atkins meaning that wife Mary was an ATKINS when no wives are ever listed on TITHABLES unless they lived apart from the land holder "Some of these earlier John Rogers researchers mistook the 1668 Surry Co., Va. Per Tina Rogers Beller Files: May 1, 2016:.The mother of (William Rogers born about 1657): is Mary Unknown.