It contained a few lines of censure on the aspersions of the king in a number of 'Mercurius Britannicus,' to which that newspaper replied abusively on 12 Aug. 1643, urging church reform it was printed at Oxford in 1644. Rogers published nothing but a letter in Latin to the House of Commons, dated 17 Dec.Among them was the genealogist, Colonel Joseph Lemuel Chester The youngest was left heir by his uncle Ezekiel Rogers Rogers's descendants in America at the present time are more numerous than those of any other early emigrant family. 1628, married to William Hubbard John (see below) and four sons (Nathaniel, Samuel, Timothy, and Ezekiel) born in Ipswich, Massachusetts. 1656), daughter of Robert Crane of Coggeshall, Essex, whom he married in 1626, Rogers had issue Mary, baptized at Coggeshall on 8 Feb. He died at Ipswich on 3 July 1655, aged 57. he took the oath of freedom at Ipswich, and was soon appointed a member of the synod, and one of a body deputed to reconcile a difference between the legalists and the antinomians. 1638, when he succeeded Nathaniel Ward as co-pastor with John Norton (1606–1663) On 6 Sept. Rogers was ordained pastor of Ipswich, Massachusetts, on 20 Feb. On 1 June 1636 he sailed with his wife and family for New England, where they arrived in November. On leaving Bocking he was for five years rector of Assington, Suffolk.Giles Firmin, who calls Rogers 'a man so able and judicious in soul-work that I would have trusted my own soul with him,' describes his preaching in his 'reverend old father's' pulpit at Dedham against his father’s interpretation of faith, while the latter, 'who dearly loved him,' stood by. His rector finally dismissed him for performing the burial office over 'an eminent person' without a surplice. There Rogers, whose chief friends were Thomas Hooker, the lecturer of Chelmsford, and other Essex puritans, adopted decidedly puritan views.
For two years he was domestic chaplain to some person of rank, and then went as curate to Dr. He was educated at Dedham grammar school and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, which he entered as a sizar on, graduating B.A. ROGERS, NATHANIEL (1598–1655), divine, second son of the puritan John Rogers (1572?–1636), by his first wife, was born at Haverhill, Essex, in 1598.Rogers, Nathaniel by Charlotte Fell Smith Rogers, Nehemiah→.Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 49.
The youngest was left heir by his uncle Ezekiel Rogers.
According to the Dictionary of National Biography article on Rogers (published 1897), his descendants in America were at that time more numerous than those of any other early English emigrant family. Nathaniel Rogers (1598–1655) was an English clergyman and early New England pastor.