101. Rogers, John, d. 1844, Mar. 18, a. 65-7-15.

Notes on the Warren Family.

THE progenitors of at least four distinct families of Warren have contributed to what may be called the New York Warrens. First, Richard Warren of the "Mayflower," some of whose descendants in the line of Samuel Warren, of Middleborough, Massachusetts (who was born 7 March, 1682, and died about January, 1750), are known to have removed to New York, and to have settled near the "Patent of Nine Partners," in Dutchess County. Second, Arthur Warren, of Weymouth, Massachusetts, whose grandson, Jacob Warren, born circa 1668, and died 3 September, 1727, became one of the founders of the town and church of Plainfield, Connecticut. Some descendants of the latter, through his son Ephraim, settled, about 1760, in Amenia, Dutchess County. Third, John Warren, of Watertown, Massachusetts, whose great-grandson, John Warren, removed to Newburgh, Orange County. Fourth, Peter Warren, the ancestor of General Joseph Warren, of the Revolution, who, through his grandson Ebenezer Warren, had descendants who settled in or near Yonkers, Westchester County. And to these must be added Richard Waring, of Brookhaven, Long Island, many of whose descendants, through his sons Richard, Edmund, Michael, and John, spell the name Warren, and among whom may be mentioned Eliakim Warren, of Troy (1717-79), and John Warren, of Southeast, in Dutchess (now Putnam) County (1736-1809).

Just when Samuel Warren1, the ancestor of the Warrens of the Highlands, settled in Eastchester or Westchester has not been ascertained, but he was surveyor of highways for Long Reach, in the latter town, 6 May, 1728. (Westchester Town Records, v. 203.) Nor has his relation to the before-mentioned families been settled. There is a tradition among some of his descendants that he was of "Mayflower" stock, and still others hold that he descended from Peter Warren, of Boston. And the latter is the greater probability, though the destruction of the Warren papers, on the one hand, and the meagreness of public record of Peter Warren's descendants of that period, on the other, render the matter difficult of solution.

On 30 November, 1730, Samuel Warren, then of Eastchester, purchased of John Drake, of the same place, a certain parcel of land lying in the new patent of Eastchester, bounded by the road that led from Rattlesnake Brook to Bronx River (Westchester County Deeds, G, 75), and under date of 27 November, 1732, in consideration of 115£ 7s. 6d., he purchased of the executors of Thomas Gardner, all the lands that had been in the possession of said Gardner, together with a "twenty-five pound privilege of commonage," the land being described as lying "on the east side of Bronx River adjacent to the country road leading to Eastchester in that range of lotts known by the name of Long Reach, together with a house standing thereon." (Westchester County Deeds, G, 213.) On 2 February, 1735, he purchased of John Jones, of Eastchester, certain other lands in that place. (Ibid., G, 347.) He also bought of Stephen Williams, of Eastchester, lands described in Mr. Warren's bill of sale of 7 January, 1737, in which his wife Sarah joins, as bounded by the country road leading from Boston to New York. (Ibid., G, 211, 230.) It was upon this highway that his house was situated. (Deed of Drake to Barnes, Ibid., G, 207, 208.) Prior to 16 July, 1742, he sold some portions of the lands thus purchased to Stephen Williams, as is shown by the will of said Williams of that date. Some time after this he removed to the Van Cortlandt Manor, and is supposed to be the Samuel Warren who was in possession of farm No. 3 in that manor, 1 May, 1767, and is so described in a deed of that date, from Michael Mekeel and Milche his wife to Nathan Whitney. (Westchester Deeds, H, 469.)

The date of Mr. Warren's death is not known, nor that of his wife's, and there seems to be no record proof of his family ; but he is thought to have been the father of Daniel Warren, Peter Warren, John Warren, Samuel Warren, Elizabeth Warren, who married, 13 January, 1763, Richard Rogers (Rombout Church Records), and possibly of the Stephen Warren who enlisted in Captain William Gilchrist's company of Colonial Troops, 20 April, 1761, and was then aged twenty-two years, and entered as born in Westchester County.

Of these, Peter, John, and Samuel are known to have been brothers.
Daniel Warren2, above named, was of Cortlandt Manor, 12 May, 1761, when he appears as a witness to a deed from Andrew Johnson, Esq., of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, to Caleb Hall and David Stanley, of Cortlandt. He was pound-master in 1763, and constable in 1767, after which date his name disappears from the records of this manor. In 1771/72 his name is among the taxables of Philips precinct, Dutchess County.

Peter Warren2, supposed son of Samuel Warren, was of the Manor of Cortlandt, where he entered his cattle-mark, "a swallow fork in the near ear," 6 May, 1766. (Records of Yorktown.) In 1773, he was tax-collector and constable for the Southern (Philipse) District of Dutchess County, and he is on the tax-lists of that precinct until 1779, when his widow Thamer appears. He probably died about 1779, although his estate was not administered upon until 7 October, 1781. (New York Wills, ii. 188.) He married three times, — first, Ann, daughter of John Rogers, by his wife Hester Verveelen, who was living at the date of her father's will, 5 November, 1776, and deceased at the execution of a deed by the heirs of said John Rogers, 8 February, 1777. (See sketch of Samuel Warren.) He married, second, a daughter of Thomas Davenport of Philipstown. His third wife was Thamer, daughter of Elisha Covert, of Cortlandt Manor, whom he had married before 23 September, 1779, when both husband and wife are named in the will of said Covert. (Pelletreau's Wills.) She survived him, and married Captain Samuel Jefferds, a gallant officer of the Revolution, and a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, who after the war resided in Philipstown, now Putnam County. He died in August, 1804, aged fifty-two years, having but one child, Samuel Jefferds. Mrs. Jefferds died 8 March, 1829, aged eighty years, and is buried in St. Peter's graveyard at Peekskill. Peter Warren's children were:

1. Peter Warren3.
2. James Warren3.
3. John Warren3.
4. Beverly Warren3, who was called grandson in the will of Thomas Davenport, dated 29 September, 1797 (Dutchess Wills, B, 91, 92), by which he was left the "improvement of the farm he now liveth upon, lying at the fourth corner of the low field by the road and running a straight line to the fourth corner of Cat Hill field, from thence on the same line to John Warren's line." Beverly Warren3 married Margaret, daughter of Isaiah Krankheyt, by whom he had:

1. John Warren4, who removed to Rochester in 1829.
2. James Warren4.
3. Henry Warren4.
4. Peter Warren4.
5. Margaret Warren4.
6. Louisa Warren4.
7. Jeremiah Warren4, who married Eleanor, daughter of Cornelius Thomas by his wife Elizabeth Libbey, and granddaughter of Captain John Libbey, and had issue:

1. Sylvanus Warren5, married Susan Birdsall.
2. Eliza Warren5, married William Hughes.
3. Isaiah C. Warren5, married Samantha Knapp.
4. Eleanor Amanda Warren5, married Edgar Brown.
5. Maria Ann Warren5, married Nathaniel Surrene.
6. Athalinda Warren5, married James Heroy.
7. Henrietta Warren5, married James, son of William Rogers.
8. Christina Warren5, married Frank Hanson.

John Warren2, the third named among the supposed children of Samuel Warren, was on the tax-list of Philipse Precinct for 1771 and 1779, and is he who enlisted, 5 May, 1778, for nine months in the Second Company, Second Regiment of the New York Line, Captain Benjamin Pelton, Colonel Van Cortlandt, and was discharged 17 February, 1779. Both John and Peter Warren made application for land bounty for Revolutionary service as members of the Seventh Dutchess County militia. (New York in the Revolution.) One John Warren, possibly he above, by wife Jerusha, had sons Peter and John, baptized at Crum Elbow, 9 November, 1760. (Records of St. George's, Hempstead, Long Island.)

Samuel Warren2, a brother of Peter2, and presumably a son of Samuel, before named, was settled in the Highlands in the Southern District or Philipse Precinct in 1766, as is evidenced by the following letter from Mrs. Livingston to her husband, Judge Livingston:

"Clermont, July 12th, 1766.
"With joy I embrace this opportunity of conversing with you, by the 'Manor Sloop,' since it is the only way now left of conveying our sentiments to each other. We set out from New York in so great a hurry that I could not give myself the pleasure of seeing or the pain of parting with you. We had a very pleasant ride the first day, which brought us to Croton. Here we were detained until the next day by rain, but it is impossible to describe this day's journey; the crags, precipices and mountains, that we had a view of, together with the excessive badness of the roads, that were laid bare by streams of water taking their course through the midst, which made it very disagreeable to me. We could go no further that day than Warren's, who lives in the midst of the Highlands, but the next day made up for the fatigue of this. We had a most charming journey the remainder of the way. We breakfasted at Van Wyck's who lives at Fishkill; dined at Poughkeepsie, slept at Rhinebeck, where we arrived at six o'clock. The next morning which was Sunday, we came home at nine o'clock, and found the family all in good health and spirits . . . ."

The tax-lists of the Southern District of Dutchess County do not commence until 1771, in which year Samuel Warren's name appears, and continues until 1775, when " Samuel Warren's farm" takes the place of his name. His homestead was on the old post road to Albany, on the crest of the Highlands south of Nelson's Mills. Erskine's military map of 1781 locates a line of barracks along the post road near the Warren homestead and in view of West Point and vicinity.

Mr. Warren was killed in 1774/75, by a fall at Franklindale Bridge, and was buried in his orchard. He married, 13 January, 1763, Esther, daughter of John Rogers, of the Highlands, by his wife Hester Verveelen. Through her mother Mrs. Warren represented not only the early Dutch settlers of New York, but several distinct lines of Huguenot ancestry. (See accompanying chart.) John Rogers lived on Canopus Creek, in that part of the Highlands known just after his death as "Continental Village," and which, from its position as the entrance to the Highlands, was a point of great military importance during the Revolution.

Mrs. Warren married (2), before 5 November, 1776, Absalom Nelson, probably son of William Nelson, and grandson of Eli Nelson, one of the early settlers of this part of the Highlands. Under the will of her father, John Rogers, dated as above (New York Calendar of Wills), Mrs. Nelson received certain lands in Dutchess County, for which, by quit-claim deed of 8 February, 1777, she, with others, receipted to the executors, and from which deed the following is abstracted:
"Know all men by these presents that whereas John Rogers late of Philipse Precinct in the County of Dutchess deceased did by his last will and testament dated 5 November, 1776, bequeath his estate to his children John Rogers, Richard Rogers, Benjamin Rogers, Charity Hustis, Esther Nelson and Ann Warren, and appointed Benjamin Rogers and Caleb Nelson executors . . . . Now we, Richard Rogers, John Rogers, Benjamin Rogers, Caleb Hustis and Charity his wife, Absalom Nelson and Esther his wife and Peter Warren in behalf of his wife Ann Warren, since deceased," etc. (Dutchess County Deeds.)*

*Of the children of John and Hester (Verveelen) Rogers: Charity Rogers, married 26 January, 1757, Caleb Heustis; Richard Rogers, married 13 January, 1763, Elizabeth Warren; Esther Rogers, married on the same day, Samuel Warren; John Rogers, married 5 January, 1768, Phebe Barton (Rombout Presbyterian Church Records); Susanna Rogers, baptized 26 May, 1741 ( Poughkeepsie Dutch Church Records), was probably the "Ann" who married Peter Warren; Benjamin Rogers, born 26 August, 1750, married Elizabeth, daughter of Christopher Fowler,* by his wife Sarah Vincent, born 30 August, 1757, and had issue : Absalom, John, Benjamin, Elizabeth, Mary, Elijah, and Sarah. *Christopher Fowler, born 32 July, 1718; died 23 March, 1809. (Gravestone at St. Philip's, Garrisons.)

Mrs. Nelson and her husband Absalom Nelson, after a short residence in Peekskill, whither she had removed shortly after her first husband's death, returned to the Warren homestead in the Highlands. By her second marriage she had but one child, William Nelson, of whom see Notes on the Nelson Family.

The Bible of Samuel and Esther (Rogers) Warren, now in possession of Mrs. Roebling, gives to them the following children:

1. John Warren3 born 15 March, 1765; married Sarah Nelson.
2. Samuel Warren3 born 15 April, 1768; married Ann Hustis.
3. Elizabeth Warren3 born 15 April, 1768.
4. Sarah Warren3, born 1 January, 1770; married her cousin John Rogers, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Fowler) Rogers, of Fishkill.
5. Peter Warren3 born 17 February, 1771; married Catharine Nelson.
6. Justus Warren3 born 1772; died in infancy.
7. Susanna Warren3, born 18 October, 1773; died 20 October, 1854; married Josiah Mekeel, son of Uriah and Francis (Davenport) Mekeel. He died 29 November, 1849, aged eighty years. Both husband and wife are buried in Cold Spring Cemetery.
8. Daniel Warren3 born 1 January, 1774; married Susannah Knapp.

Captain John Warren3 the eldest son of Samuel and Esther (Rogers) Warren, was born in the Highlands-on-Hudson, 15 March, 1765, was baptized 22 February, 1767 (Rombout Church Records), and died in the Highlands, 1 September, 1837. On 4 March, 1805, he purchased of Amos Belden two hundred and fifty acres of land in Philipstown, which he shortly afterwards reconveyed to the said Amos Belden. (Dutchess County Deeds, xii. 633.) He afterwards purchased sundry other tracts of land in Philipstown, one from Thomas Searles, bordering partly on the farm of Peter Warren, Highland turnpike, road leading to the river, and Cat Hill; another, under date of 28 June, 1821, from Frederick Philipse and Maria his wife (Putnam Deeds, B, 13-15); one from Edward Buckbee, sheriff of Putnam County, 9 October, 1826, which he conveyed to Joseph Parks, 30 November, 1832 (H, 164); and still another from Samuel Gouverneur and Mary his wife, by deed of 1 May, 1832 (I, 42-44 J M, 245). His home farm, of several hundred acres, lay at the junction of Highland turnpike and the old post road. About 1805 he built a mill on the stream that flowed near by where the mill of James Nelson now stands. He executed his will 21 January, 1837, under which his legatees were sons Cornelius, Henry, and Sylvanus (who were also the executors thereof), John, and Samuel; grandsons Sylvanus D. and Isaac, children of son John; grandchildren Henry Samuel J., and Charles Haight, sons of daughter Polly, deceased; grandchildren Sarah Hannah, Benjamin, Cornelia, Margaret, and Eunice Davenport; daughter Susan, wife of Elijah Davenport, and her daughter Sarah Jane; granddaughter Sarah, the child of son Sylvanus; son John's present wife and family. (Putnam County Wills, Liber D, folio 70.) Mr. Warren was buried in the church-yard of St. Philip's at Garrisons-on-Hudson, where gravestones to himself and wife are erected.

Blake's History of Putnam County, New York, published in 1849, ends a somewhat lengthy notice of John Warren, Esq., in these words: "He aspired to no higher distinction than that of a plain practical farmer, which he was. The purity of his motives and the honesty of his heart were never questioned; and in all the relations of life he never gave just cause of offence to his neighbor. He died, regretted and beloved by all who knew him, in 1837, in the seventy-second year of his age. His children, so far as we know them, inherit his virtues."

He married, in 1783, Sarah Nelson, daughter of Justus Nelson by his wife Mary Haight, born 1 January, 1766; died 2 November, 1833, and was buried beside her husband in St. Philip's church-yard. Children, all born in Philipstown:

1. Phebe Warren4, born 1 March, 1784; died 13 March, 1787.
2. Mary Warren4, born 4 January, 1786; married (1) Joshua, son of Sylvanus and Martha (Nelson) Haight; (2) John, son of Isaac Davenport by his wife Elizabeth Hustis.
3. Samuel Warren4, born 25 February, 1788; died in New York City, 7 February, 1865; married Martha, daughter of Daniel Haight by his wife Martha Fowler, born 4 June, 1799; died 12 April, 1832.
4. Cornelius Warren4, born 15 March, 1790; married (1) Hannah Haight; (2) Mrs. Hannah (Haight) Reed.
5. John Warren4, born 29 June, 1792; married Rachel, daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth (Hustis) Davenport.
6. Susan Warren4, married Elijah Davenport, brother to Rachel Davenport.
7. Henry Warren4, born 5 May, 1798; removed to Newark, Delaware, where he died 6 November, 1882; married Amelia Reinhardt, born 9 February, 1802; died near Newark, 26 November, 1888. Issue: 1. Theodore Warren. 2. Nelson Warren. 3. John Warren, M.D. 4. Joseph Warren. 5. Angevine Warren. 6. Lucy Warren.
8. Sylvanus Warren4, born 15 November, 1799; died 19 February, 1859; married Phebe Lickley.

SAMUEL WARREN3, son of Samuel2 and Esther (Rogers) Warren, was born 15 April, 1768. Under date of 4 February, 1832, he with wife Ann conveyed lands in Philipstown to Henry Warren. (Putnam County Deeds, Liber G, folio 403.) The devisees under his will of 15 December, 1833, were wife Ann, daughter Caroline, grandson Henry, son of John S. Warren; son Elijah, who is to have the dwellinghouse wherein the testator dwells; sons Henry, Thomas, Peter S.; the children of Peter S. Warren when twenty-one years; the four youngest children of John S. . . . Pg 440

The Journal of the Reverend Silas Constant, PASTOR OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AT YORKTOWN, NEW YORK, With some of the Records of the Church and a List of his Marriages, 1784-1825, together with Notes on the Nelson, Van Cortlandt, Warren, and some other Families mentioned in the Journal By Emily Warren Roebling. EDITED BY JOSIAH GRANVILLE LEACH, LL.B., Printed for Private Circulation, BY J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA, 1903. Copyright, 1903 BY Emily Warren Roebling.

95. Rodgers, Sarah, w. of John, d. 1832, Apr. 3, a. 51-3-3.
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Sarah Rodgers (45112630)

Suggested edit: Sarah Warren Rogers died about 1798.

John Rogers married 2nd Sarah VanVoorhis on 17 Jan 1799 in Fishkill.

NAME: Elizabeth Rogers
GENDER: Female
RECORD TYPE: Baptism
BIRTH DATE: 11 Nov 1799
BAPTISM DATE: 13 Apr 1800
BAPTISM PLACE: Fishkill, Dutchess, New York, USA

FATHER: John Rogers
MOTHER: Sarah Van Voorhis

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