The Rogerenes: some hitherto unpublished annals belonging to the colonial history of ConnecticutBolles, John R. (John Rogers)
History
The Rogerenes: some hitherto unpublished annals belonging to the colonial history of Connecticut
Bolles, John R. (John Rogers)
Rogerenes -- History
They first settled in Morris County, N.J.—Schooley’s Mountain—but
soon moved south to above location. About eleven years later, they
seem to have returned to Schooley’s Mountain. In the latter part
of the eighteenth century, many of these New Jersey Rogerenes are
said to have removed to the “red stone country,” supposed to be
Virginia. Most of them had names indicative of Groton origin, as
Waterhouse, Mann, Lamb, etc., showing that other Groton people
either accompanied the Culvers to New Jersey or joined them there.
It would be interesting to know more of the New Jersey Rogerenes
than has been discovered. Very naturally, various fabrications
regarding the New London Rogerenes have become attached to them
also, simply because they were of the same sect.
Footnote 150:
Upon his gravestone is inscribed:—“In memory of Abraham Weair.
Died March 24, 1768, aged 85 years. Whose innocent life adorned
true light.”
The location of this little Rogerene community is about one hundred
and forty miles from Ephrata, Pa., where is a Society of Dunkers,
among whom are certain brethren who dwell apart from the secular
portion of the community, in a cloister. This Society observe the
seventh day as a Sabbath, and hold closely to New Testament teaching
and example, not discarding healing by faith and prayer and the
anointing with oil. The brethren of the cloister appear to believe
in direct enlightenment being accorded to such as lead devout lives.
They have acquired the name and fame of “holy men.” John Culver has
visited these brethren of the cloister, and a mutual friendship and
interest have resulted.
In 1744, a number of these Ephrata brethren, being on a pilgrimage
in the vicinity of the New Jersey Rogerenes, pay them a visit. The
reputation of these “holy men,” in regard to healing by prayer, and
also the fidelity of the Rogerenes to this scriptural mode, is shown
by the fact, recorded by the Pilgrims, that the New Jersey Rogerenes
brought their sick to them, in the hope that they might be restored
to health.[151]
Footnote 151:
The following brief but explicit counsel to his followers by John
Rogers, Sr., contained in one of his books, under the heading here
given, is all that has been found in Rogerene writings regarding
the doctrine of divine healing:—
CONCERNING GOD’S MINISTRATION BY SICKNESS.
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