------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Superscripted characters are preceded by ‘^’. With the exception of single footnote (A) appearing in the Index, each note has been moved to follow the paragraphs in which they are referenced. Footnotes have been renumbered sequentially across the text for uniqueness. Three footnotes (now numbered 71, 114, and A) are referenced twice in the text. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE ROGERENES SOME HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED ANNALS BELONGING TO THE COLONIAL HISTORY OF CONNECTICUT -------------- PART I. A VINDICATION, BY JOHN R. BOLLES PART II. HISTORY OF THE ROGERENES BY ANNA B. WILLIAMS APPENDIX OF ROGERENE WRITINGS -------------- PRINTED FOR THE SUBSCRIBERS =Stanhope Press= F. H. GILSON COMPANY BOSTON U.S.A. COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY ANNA B. WILLIAMS SPRINGFIELD, MASS. -------------- _ALL RIGHTS RESERVED_ PUBLISHED JULY, 1904 CONTENTS. -------------- PART I. A VINDICATION. CHAPTER I. Errors of historians regarding the Rogerenes. James Rogers 19-36 and his family. Rogerenes first people in Connecticut to denounce taxation without representation. Fines of the Rogerenes. Their interruption of meetings not without reasonable cause. John Roger’s contribution of a wig to the New London ministry and his apology for the same. Progressive character of the Rogerene movement. Heroism of the Rogerenes under fines. Suit of Governor Saltonstall against John Rogers. Its illegal character. Rev. Mr. McEwen’s attacks on the Rogerenes. Sufferings of the Rogerenes. Quotations from John Rogers and John Bolles regarding persecutions. Scourging of Rogerenes, 1725, for travelling to one of their own meetings on Sunday CHAPTER II.