“Sixth, That James Brown, Isaiah Humphrey, Edw’d Bosworth, Sam’l Allen, Nathaniel Martin, Moses Tyler, & Thomas Allen, Esq., or a major part of them, be a committee for this town to Correspond with all the other Committees appointed by any Town in this or the neighboring Colonies, and the committee is desir’d to give their attention to every thing that concerns the liberties of America; and if any of that obnoxious Tea should be brought into this Town, or any attempt made on the liberties of the inhabitants thereof, the committee is directed and empowered to call a town meeting forthwith that such measures may be taken as the publick safty may require.

“Seventh, That we do heartily unite in and resolve to support the foregoing resolves with our lives & fortunes.”

JOHN ROGERS, ESQUIRE.

A descendant of John Rogers, of Smithfield farm, came to America in the early emigration.  Can any one give any information as to the life and death of a son, John Rogers, Jr., of Roxbury?

Answer.—­John Rogers, Jr., or second, was born at Duxbury, about February 28, 1641.  He married Elisabeth Peabody, and, after King Philip’s War, removed to Mount Hope Neck, Bristol, Rhode Island, about 1680.  He again removed to Boston in 1697; to Taunton in 1707; and to Swansea in 1710.  He became blind in 1723, and died after nine days’ sickness, June 28, 1732, in the ninety-second year of his age, leaving at the time of his death ninety-one descendants, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.  He was buried at Prince’s Hill Cemetery, in Barrington, Rhode Island, where his grave is marked by a fine slate headstone in excellent preservation.

M.H.W.

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