Taken from old clippings dealing with Kentucky family history, newspaper
unknown. These clippings are about 100 years old (1997).  Reprinted in
Kentucky Explorer, Volume 10 Number 8 - February, 1996. p. 104.  Bourbon
County.

NATHANIEL ROGERS
     A will probated in Charles County, Va., September 4, 1786, mentions
legatees, all grown, Thomas, John and Nathaniel Rodgers and Samuel, James,
Andrew and Benjamin Rogers, and daughters, wives of James Moore, Abraham
Echols and John Robertson. (Note the spelling of the name which in 1802,
Nathaniel explained, by saying, that they signed it just as the clerks
wrote in in patents, deeds, etc., to prevent confusion.)  Have a copy of a
patent to Thomas Rogers, April 4, 1769, with eight headrights located in
Bedford County, Va.  Thomas Rogers, Jr. and Jean, his wife, made deed to
Matthew Jones, of Dinwiddie County, for 400 acres in 1779.  In 1793 Samuel
Clayton gives power of attorney to Andrew Rogers, of Kentucky, to convey
land, etc.  Nathaniel Rogers came to Bourbon County, Ky., March 14, 1798,
married Frances Cobbs and had William, Anne, Walton and Elizabeth Anne. 
James Rogers and wife, Anne Phelps settled on Cane Ridge.  Their daughter,
Ann and two sons, Thomas and John, moved to Washington Co.  Anne, Thomas
and John appear in deed to C. and J. Colcord, February 15, 1828, of lands
from their grandfdather, John Phelps.  Samuel, son of Thomas and
Elizabeth, daughter of Maj. John Brent, of the Continental line.

Rogers Rodgers Moore Echols Robertson Jones Clayton Cobbs Phelps Brent
=
Charles-VA Bedford-VA Dinwiddie-VA Washington-KY

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