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erine Perkins. John Baker owned a house and land in Ipswich as early as 1638, and ap- pears to have been a man of large property. He was one of the principal subscribers to the compensation of Major Denison in 1648. He died in 1710. Michael and Elizabeth Far- ley left sons Michael and John, and a daugh- ter Jane, married Samuel Heard.
(IV) General Michael Farley, son of Michael and Elizabeth ( Baker) Farley, born in Ipswich, April 24, 1720, died June 20, 1789. He was a tanner, and carried on an extensive business, although much of his time during the more mature years of his life was given to public service, in both civil and military affairs. He held a number of unimportant town offices, and was town treasurer of Ips- wich for many years, feoffee of the grammar school, and representative of Ipswich to the general court of Massachusetts nine years, 1766-74. He was chosen member of the pro- vincial congress 1774-75. and from the latter year to 1779 was again representative to the general court. He also filled the office of high sheriff of Essex county, and was first briga- dier-general and afterward major-general of the state militia. As a patriot of the revolution, General Farley rendered great service to Mass- achusetts and the continental government by his successful efforts in raising men for the army and equipping them with clothes, arms and provisions. Three of his own sons entered the army and each one did a soldier's full duty. His wife was no less loyal and self- sacrificing than her husband in behalf of the cause for which the colonies were contending. and when one of her young sons, then a boy of sixteen years, was making preparations to join the army, she herself assisted him and sent him on his journey with her blessing and the maternal injunction "behave like a man," and he did as she told him. On one occasion, says a contemporary writer. when a regiment of men was expecting to meet the enemy in battle, this same patriotic woman with her own hands filled each man's powder horn with powder which was stored in the garret of her house. When General Lafayette arrived in America to offer his assistance to the colonies during the revolution, he was received by Gen- eral Farley as the guest of his house, and in 1824, when the same brave officer again visited the United States as the nation's guest, he came to Ipswich and made a brief address in which he referred to his former visit and re- lated an incident of his first meeting there
with General Farley, who then had been dead many years.
General Farley died in Ipswich, June 20, 1789. He married, December 21, 1745, Eliz- abeth Choate, born September 29, 1726, died July 6, 1795, daughter of Robert Choate, born April 27, 1691, died September 27, 1763, and Eunice Perkins, born in Ipswich, March 14, 1791, died November 23, 1755. Robert Choate was son of John Choate, born in Chebacco parish, Ipswich, June 15, 1661, died July 17, 1733, and Mrs. Elizabeth Giddings, his second wife, widow of Thomas Giddings. John Choate was son of John Choate, baptized June 6, 1624, died December 4. 1695, and his wife Anne, born 1637, died February 16, 1727. John Choate, last mentioned, baptized in Gro- ton, Boxford, Colchester, England, June 6, 1624, came to this country in 1643. General Michael and Elizabeth ( Choate ) Farley had twelve children : I. John, baptized October 5, 1746, died October 20, 1812; married about 1770, Sarah Dennis. 2. Ebenezer, baptized November 27. 1748. 3. Elizabeth, baptized January 24, 1750, died September 28, 1769. 4. Michael, baptized December 3, 1752; was an officer in revolutionary army ; afterward went south and died there. 5. Jabez, baptized Octo- ber 13, 1754; see forward. 6. Eunice, born October 26, 1756, died May 11, 1809 ; married (pub. ) June 22, 1776, Dr. Elisha Whitney. 7. Robert, baptized February 4. 1759. died in infancy. 8. Robert, baptized April 27, 1760, clied July 20, 1823; married November 30, 1780, Susanna Kendall; during Shay's rebel- lion was aide on General Sheridan's staff ; afterward became colonel in regular army. Lucy, daughter of Colonel Robert and Sus- anna ( Kendall) Farley, married, first, Wil- liam Dodge, and second, March 26, 1834. Abraham Hammatt, scholar and genealogist. author of "The Hammatt Paters, Ispwich, Mass.," a work which has always been re- garded standard authority. 9. Susanna, bap- tized January 17. 1762, died in infancy. 10. Susanna, born in February, 1764, died about 1799; married December 14, 1786. Captain William Burleigh, of Boston. II. Thomas, born February 21, 1766, died about 1810; was a physician ; settled in Marietta, Ohio, remain- ed there until about 1790, then returned to Ips- wich. 12. Sarah, born July 16, 1769 ; married December 9, 1792. James Phillips.
(V) Adjutant Jabez Farley, son of General Michael and Elizabeth (Choate) Farley, born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, October 13, 1754,
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died there April 5, 1836. He was a tanner and mill owner, and possessed a fair estate in lands. He is best remembered, however, as a soldier and officer of the revolution, and his military service in that eventful contest for independence may be briefly stated as follows: Sergeant, Captain Wade's company volun- teers, Colonel John Baker's Third Essex coun- ty regiment, muster roll, April 17, 1775; also Captain Wade's company of minute-men that marched on alarm of April 19, 1775, to Mys- tic; April 20, ordered to Salem; 21 to Ips- wich, and then to headquarters at Cambridge ; service to May 10, 1775, three weeks; also Captain Wade's company that marched to Cambridge, company return dated June 5, 1775 ; also Captain Wade's company, Colonel Little's 17th regiment, muster roll August I, 1775; enlisted May 10, 1775, served eleven weeks five days, also company return, Octo- ber, 1775; order for bounty coat or equivalent in money, December 21, 1775; commissioned second lieutenant, Captain Robert Dodge's company, list dated Ipswich, April 30, 1777, of officers appointed to command men drafted from Brigadier General Farley's Essex county brigade, agreeable to resolve of April II, 1777, and ordered to march to Rhode Island to rein- force General Spencer's army ; second lieuten- ant, Captain Robert Dodge's company, Col- onel Jonathan Titcomb's regiment ; marched from Ipswich, April 25, 1777, service two months eight days; second lieutenant Captain Daniel Rogers' company, Third Essex county regiment Massachusetts militia ; commissioned adjutant April 14, 1778; adjutant Colonel Wade's regiment raised for defence of Massa- chusetts ; discharged January 14, 1779, service eight months twenty days ; adjutant same regi- ment September 17, October 14, and Novem- ber 6, 1778; certificate dated Ipswich, January 18, 1779, signed by Colonel Nathaniel Wade, stating that Jabez Farley served in Captain Simeon Brown's company, Colonel Wade's regiment, at Providence, Rhode Island, until January 1. 1779, to the credit of the town of Ipswich, agreeable to resolve of general court of June 10, 1778.
On September 8, 1780, Jabez Farley mar- ried Lucy Rogers, born March 18, 1759, died July 24, 1788, twin with Nathaniel Rogers, children of Rev. Nathaniel Rogers by his sec- ond wife, Mary Burnham, widow of Daniel Staniford, Esq., of Ipswich. Rev. Nathaniel Rogers married first, Mary, daughter of Pre- sident Leverett, of Harvard College, and by her had eight children (see Rogers family).
On January 28, 1790, Jabez Farley married second, Susanna Swazey.
(VI) Nathaniel Rogers Farley, son of Jabez and Lucy (Rogers) Farley, born Feb- ruary 3, 1784, died August 15, 1857. He mar- ried Sarah Pearson, September 25, 1810. Chil- dren: 1. Lucy Rogers, born April 10, 1812, died 1894. 2. Nathaniel Rogers, born in Row- ley, September 2, 1814, see forward. 3. Sarah, born in Rowley, 1817, died 1878.
(VII) Nathaniel Rogers Farley, son of Na- thaniel Rogers and Sarah (Pearson) Farley, born in Ipswich, September 2, 1814, died May 22, 1897. Like his father and others of his ancestors, he was a prominent man in the town and served the people in various capa- cities. He was selectman more than twenty years, and also represented the town in the
general court. He married, November 15, 1849, Emeline Caldwell, born September 17, 1826, died June 28, 1905. Children: I. Eme- line Caldwell, born October 13, 1850, died August 19, 1907. 2. Lucy Rogers, born No- vember 14, 1852. 3. George Edward, born October 22, 1855; see forward. 4. Nathaniel, Rogers, born May 7, 1857, died January 31, 1876. 5. Sylvanus Caldwell, born August 21, 1862 ; his home is in Alton, Illinois. He mar- ried, October 18, 1892, Harriet W. Hathaway, of Alton, Illinois; children : Nathaniel Rogers Farley, born April 25, 1896; Harriet Louise Farley, born December 25, 1900, died October 23, 1901.
(VIII) George Edward Farley, eldest son and third child of Nathaniel R. and Emeline (Caldwell) Farley, was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, October 22, 1855, and for the last more than twenty-five years has been identified with the civil and business history of that town. He is one of the feoffees of the Ipswich grammar school, which latter office was likewise held by his distinguished great- great-grandfather, General Farley, more than a century and a quarter ago, and in 1907 he was elected treasurer of the Ipswich Savings Bank. On January 24, 1889, he married Eme- line F., daughter of Theodore F. and Hannah B. Cogswell, and by whom he has one child, Theodore Rogers Farley, born in Ipswich, No- vember 22, 1894.
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ROGERS 1555. being Monday, in the morning. John Rogers-Proto- Martyr-was burned at the stake. "A little before burning at the stake a pardon was offered if he would recant, but utterly refused.
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There, in the presence of Rochester, comp- troller of the queen's household, Sir Richard Southwell, both of the sheriffs and a great concourse of people, the fire was put on him ; and when it had taken hold of his legs and shoulders, like one feeling no smart, he wash- ed his hands in the flame, as in cold water, and lifting them toward heaven, until entirely consumed by the devouring fire, most mildly this happy martyr yielded his spirit into the hands of his Heavenly Father. He was the first of all that blessed company which suffered in Queen Mary's time, and styled the Proto- Martyr." Such was the fate of the Rev. John Rogers, the English ancestor of an immigrant grandson who founded one of the prominent old colonial families of New England-a family of noted men, devout men, many of them ministers of the gospel in one generation succeeding another until their names were heralded throughout the new world even as their English forbears had brought honor and dignity upon their house in the old world in the time of the martyr.
(I) It is written in history that John Rogers -Proto-Martyr-was born in Lancashire, England, was educated at the University of Cambridge, and while a young man went to Antwerp in Brabant and served many years as chaplain to the English merchant adven- turers ; that ultimately he came to a profound knowledge of the gospel, renounced popery, and assisted in the translation of the bible into English, which led to the printing in Eng- land in 1537 of the folio bible, being the first complete edition of both the old and the new testaments ; that his renunciation of all which savored of popery led to his persecution and imprisonment, the shallow mockery of a trial before a tribunal of his accusers, his condem- nation and his death at the stake. The life and death of John Rogers marked the begin- ning of a new era in the religious world, and especially in the history of the christian church ; and there was that in the works he wrought, that in his splendid character and noble end, which has left its impress alike on those who have borne his name and all others within the influence of the Protestant church universal.
The researches of genealogists disclose that he had three sons, the baptismal names of two of whom are known, while the name of the other is not known, although of his paternity there is no shadow of doubt. The first son was Daniel Rogers, the second Rev. Richard Rogers, and the third, unknown so far as re-
lates to his baptismal name, was he from whom descends the particular branch of the Rogers family proposed to be treated in this place.
(H) "A son of the Proto-Martyr," says a genealogical account written by one of his de- scendants, said to have died young and whose name is now unknown, was father of the Rev. John Rogers, of Dedham, Essex, England, and brother of Rev. Richard Rogers of Wethers- field, Essex.
(111) Rev. John Rogers, grandson of the Proto-Martyr, was educated in the University of Cambridge, and for many years was a fam- ous preacher at Dedham. Having lost his parents when he was quite young, he was en- couraged in his studies by his uncle, the Rev. Richard, who also supported him while in the university. In 1592 he became vicar of Hem- ingham, Norfolk, continued there some time, later was minister of Haverhill, Suffolk. whence he removed to Dedham, Essex, and there passed the remaining years of his life. He was a thorough Puritan, and while always humble and peaceable in speech and behavior, he refused conformity to the tyrannical im- positions of Bishop Laud, and in consequence in 1629 his lecture was suppressed. He died i11 1636, and was buried at Dedham, Essex, where there still stands over his grave one of the most striking monuments in that ancient burial-ground. The name of his first wife is not known; he married second, Elizabeth Gold, widow of John Hawes: third wife, Dorothy Stanton, widow of Richard Wise- man, of Wigborough, Essex.
(IV) Rev. Nathaniel Rogers, son of Rev. John and Elizabeth (Gold) Rogers, was born about 1598, while his father was settled at Haverhill. He was educated in the grammar school at Dedham, and entered Emanuel Col- lege, Cambridge, when about fourteen years old. There he acquired an academic educa- tion and fitted himself for the gospel ministry ; and his first sermon was preached at Sprough- ton, Norfolk, in 1619. Soon afterward he en- gaged as chaplain to a person of quality, and still later took charge of a large congregation at Bocking in Essex, under Dr. Barkham, to the great surprise of many persons that the son of "the most noted Puritan in England" should be employed by an Episcopal divine so high in favor with Bishop Land : but Bark- ham, himself a good preacher, was willing to gratify the religious predelictions of his par- ishioners, especially as Mr. Rogers did at least three quarters of the parish work for the pit-
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tance of less than one-tenth part of its revenue. At length, a resolution of the hierarchy de- creed that all ministers who would not con- form to the impositions of that body should be silenced; but before that could be done, Mr. Rogers, perceiving the approaching storm, resigned his place and resolved to emigrate to New England. His father-in-law, a gentle- man of Coggeshall in Essex, a man of consid- erable estate, would have preferred that he remain in England, but seeing that he was de- termined to continue his ministerial work in the new world, made no strong opposition to his departure from a field which was full of obstacles. Mr. Rogers was by no means fitted to encounter the hardships of the voyage, but with his wife and young family sailed from Gravesend for Boston, arriving there in No- vember, 1636, after a voyage of weeks, the passengers having been compelled to maintain themselves on a daily allowance of half a pint of water and an equally meagre allowance of provisions. He was first requested to settle in Dorchester, where dwelt some of his father's 'former English parishioners, but he decided to go to Ipswich, where he had been invited to take the place about to be vacated by the resignation of Rev. Nathaniel Wade, whose health was much broken. He became minister at Ipswich, February 20, 1638, and soon rose to the prominence of being one of the greatest preachers in New England; indeed, he is said by various writers to have been "the very chiefest of them all." He remained spiritual head of the church in Ipswich until 1655, when on July 3 his work on earth was ended with the last words, "my times are in thy hands." He is known to have kept a diary, which was burned at his own request, but several of his letters were printed, also a manuscript (writ- ten in neat Latin, of which he was master ) entitled "A Vindication of the Congregational Church Government." His will proved Sep- tember 26, 1645, was written by Mr. Cheever, first master of the grammar school in Ipswich. His wife Margaret was daughter of Robert Crane, of Coggeshall, Essex, England, by his first wife Mary, daughter of Samuel Spar- hawk, Esq., of Dedham, Essex. Rev. Na- thaniel and Margaret (Crane) Rogers had children: 1. Rev. Dr. John, born at Cogges- hall, England, January (11th mo.) 1630 (see post). 2. Nathaniel, born at Assington, Suf- folk, England, September 30, 1632, died June 14, 1680; he came with his father to Ipswich, Massachusetts, and is mentioned as "a trooper against the Indians." It is believed that he
never married, as he gave his property by verbal will to his nephew John. 3. Samuel, born at Assington, England. January 16, 1634, died in Ipswich, December 21, 1693 ; was town clerk of Ipswich 1653; married, December 12, 1657, Judith Appleton, died in July 1659, daughter of Samuel Appleton and Mary Ever- ard (or Everett). Samuel Appleton was born in Little Waldingfield, England, 1586, and was of Ipswich, Massachusetts, 1635. Mr. Rogers married second, November 13, 1661, Sarah, daughter of Jonathan Wade, of Ipswich. 4. Timothy, born probably in Ipswich, Massa- chusetts ; was a merchant of Boston, Novem- ber, 1668. 5. Ezekiel, born probably in Ips- wich, Massachusetts ; married Margaret, widow of Thomas Scott, of Ipswich, sister of Rev. William Hubbard, who graduated from Harvard College 1659, and died July 5, 1674. 6. Margaret, born probably in Ipswich ; mar- ried Rev. William Hubbard, of Ipswich, born in England, 1621, came to New England 1630, son of William Hubbard of Ipswich and Bos- ton, "a learned man, being well read in state matters, of a very affable and humble behavior, though he be slow in speech, yet is he downright for the businesse."
(VI) Rev. Dr. John Rogers, eldest child of Rev. Nathaniel and Margaret (Crane) Rogers, born at Coggeshall, Essex, England, January (IIth mo.) 1630, died July 2, 1684. He came to New England with his father's family 1636, soon afterward entered Harvard College, tak- ing courses in physic and divinity at the same time, and graduated in 1649. He afterward assisted his father in his parish, also Mr. Cob- bet and Mr. Hubbard, ministers of Ipswich, taking principal charge of the Thursday lec- ture, while they atttended to other church and parish duties. His salary, which the town voted until 1681, was much less than theirs for the reason that they were expected to perform the more important work of the ministry, while he was considerably occupied in attend- ing the sick, being the principal physician of the town. In June, 1676, Dr. Rogers was unanimously elected president of Harvard College, which office he declined, but in April 1682, after the death of President Oakes, his former classmate, he was again elected and was installed in that office August 12, 1683. His period of service was brief, for he died the day following the next annual commence- ment. In speaking of him and his personal qualities one commentator has said, "So sweet was his disposition that the title of deliciac humani generis might have been given him:
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and his real piety set off with the accomplish- ments of a gentleman was like a gem set in gold."
The wife of Rev. Dr. Rogers was Elizabeth Denison, who died in Ipswich, Massachusetts, June 13, 1723, aged eighty-two years, only daughter of Major General Daniel Denison, of Ipswich, whose wife was Patience, daughter of Governor Thomas Dudley and sister of Gov- ernor Joseph Dudley, of Massachusetts. Gov- ernor Thomas Dudley was a son of Captain Roger Dudley. General Denison was son of William Denison, of Roxbury, and came from England as early as 1633, when he was of Cambridge, freeman 1634, where he received from the general court a grant of two hundred acres of land on the east side of the Charles river. He removed to Ipswich and had a grant of land there 1635. He became a person of great civil and military distinction ; captain of the Ipswich trainband, 1637: member of committee "to put the country in a posture of defence," 1643; `major of Essex and Norfolk counties militia, 1644: military leader of Ips- wich with a salary of twenty-four pounds seven shillings, 1646; commissioner to treat with D'Aulnay at Penobscot; member of Ancient and Honorable Artillary, 1652, and in the absence of Major General Robert Sedg- wick held command of all the troops in the colony ; chosen major general by general court 1653, and held that commission at different periods for ten years, until 1680: represented Ipswich in the general court several years ; speaker of the house, 1649 and 1652; secre- tary of the colony, 1653, in the absence of Rawson; justice of the quarterly court; re- serve commissioner of the united colonies, 1654 to 1662: assistant, 1664 to 1682, the year of his death.
Rev. Dr. John and Elizabeth (Denison) Rogers, had children, all born in Ipswich : I. Elizabeth, born February 3, 1661, died Ips- wich, March 13, 1754; married November 23, 1681. John Appleton, of Ipswich, born Little Waldingfield, England, 1622, son of Captain John Appleton, and grandson of Samuel Appleton who came to New England 1635. John Appleton, first mentioned, died in Ips- wich, September II, 1739. He was member of council many years, colonel of militia, jus- tice of sessions, court of common pleas, and for twenty years was judge of probate for Essex county. 2. Margaret, born February 18, 1664, died June 7, 1720; married first, De- cember 28, 1682, Captain Thomas Berry ; sec- ond, November 25, 1697, Rev. John Leverett,
F. R. S., president of Harvard College ; gradu- ated there 1680, and soon afterward was ap- pointed tutor. He was chosen representative from Boston in general court; speaker of the house ; member of her majesty's council ; judge of superior court and probate court; commis- sioner for controlling the army sent against Port Royal ; president of Harvard College, in- ducted into office January 14, 1708. 3. Rev. John, born July 7, 1666, (see post). 4. Dr. Daniel, born September 25, 1667, died Decem- ber 1. 1722; graduated from Harvard College 1686, and for years afterward was teacher in Ipswich grammar school, and served as justice of court of sessions; became a physician and practiced in connection with other duties ; perished in a violent snow storm on Hampton beach on his way home from court at Salis- bury. He married Sarah, daughter of Cap- tain John Appleton of Ipswich. 5. Rev. Na- thaniel, born February 22, 1669, died October 3. 1723; graduated from Harvard College 1687 : received a call from the church at Salem village, preached there from February I to October 1, 1687; ordained minister of First church at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, May 3. 1699; married Sarah, daughter of James Purkess, of Boston, sister of Rev. Ebenezer Purkess. 6. Patience, born 1676, died May 2, 1731 ; married April 15, 1696, Benjamin Mars- ton, merchant of Salem, of which town he was selectman and representative.
(VII) Rev. John Rogers, eldest son and third child of Rev. Dr. John and Elizabeth (Denison) Rogers, born in Ipswich, Massa- chusetts, July 7, 1666, died of paralysis, De- cember 28, 17.45. He graduated from Har- vard College 1684, the year in which his father died, and soon afterward was asked to assist, with his cousin, Rev. John Denison, Rev. Mr. Hubbard in the ministry in Ipswich. In Oc- tober. 1692, he was ordained assistant to Mr. Hubbard, who in 1702 gave his pastoral work into Mr. Rogers' charge. In 1706 he preached the "election" sermon, and in 1743, then sev- enty-eight years old, wrote an interesting ac- count of a revival in his society. One of his biographers says "such was the strength of his mind, the amount of his acquisitions in learning and theology, the prominence of his piety and persevering labors of his ministry, that he held a high rank in the estimation of his people and the public." During the later years of his pastoral labors, latter part of 1703 to 1724, he had the services of an assist- ant. Rev. Jabez Fitch, but afterward and un- til his death his work was done entirely by
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himself and his son, Rev. Nathaniel Rogers. He married, March 4, 1691, Martha Whitting- ham, died March 9, 1759, aged eighty-nine years, daughter of William Whittingham, whose wife was a daughter of John Lawrence of Ipswich, and William Whittingham was a son of John Whittingham, who came to Ips- wich with his mother from Lincolnshire, Eng- land, in 1637-8, and in the same year became a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. John Whittingham was son and heir of Baruch Whittingham, of Southerton, near Boston, Lincolnshire, Eng- land, principal builder of the church there, and who intended coming to New England, but died. He was the only son of William Whit- tingham, Puritan, who in the reign of Queen Mary fled from England to the continent for conscience sake, leaving behind an estate of eleven hundred pounds sterling per annum, and became pastor of the church in Geneva, the first Congregational church in modern times. In Geneva he married Katherine, sister of John Calvin, the reformer. William Whit- tingham was a son of William Whittingham, gentleman, of Holmside, Cheshire, by his wife, daughter of Haughton of Haughton Tower, and William last mentioned was a son of Wil- liam Whittingham of Over, whose father was Seth Whittingham of Sanlow in Cheshire.
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