Rogers was born to James and Mary MacPhartridge Rogers in Ireland, they immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony around 1729. He served with his brother Major Robert Rogers during the French and Indian War. He then served as Loyalist leader during the American War of Independence.

During the revolutionary war he had served for five years as commandant of a corps known as the King's Rangers, which, during that time, formed part of the garrison of St. John's, Quebec. This post commended the northern outlet of the great waterway which connects the valley of the Hudson with that of the St. Lawrence. He settled with some two hundred of his disbanded soldiers upon the shores of the Bay of Quinte. " Township of Fredericksburgh, as well as a part of an adjoining Township,Adolphustown "

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James married Margaret McGregor on March 1760.

They had the following children:

David Rogers 7 Nov 1762
died on 2 Nov 1766

Mary Elinore Rogers born about 1763.
died on 1 Dec 1793
married John Armstrong.

James McGregor Rogers 22 Nov 1764.
died on 22 Dec 1841.
married Mary Ann Allen

Mary Ann Rogers born about 1769
married John Peters Jr

David McGregor Rogers 23 Nov 1772.
died in 1824
.married (1) Sarah Playter
(2)Elizabeth Playter-Perry

Margaret Rogers 25 Mar 1774.
died on 22 Aug 1866.
married Aaron Greeley

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References:

Descendants of James Jacob Rogers
http://www.montalona.com/

History of Brome County, Quebec
http://www.archive.org

Quebec Historical Corps
http://reenacting.net/qhc/james_eng.html

http://www.fortat4.org/

Rogers Island Visitors Center
http://www.rogersisland.org/Rogers%20Island.htm

The Loyalist Collection
HARRIET IRVING LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK
http://www.lib.unb.ca/collections/loyalist/seeOne.php?id=445&string=

From South Fredericksburgh Township
Cemetery Transcriptions
http://www.sfredheritage.on.ca