BRICK GRANARY & ROGERSVILLE PART 1 OF A SERIES.

CEDAR CREEK HUNDRED

THE BRICK GRANARY & ROGERSVILLE

1776 - 2007 BY DAVE KENTON 2008

A SERIES

Between Rehoboth and Milford , on the west side of the highway, old King Highway, at Argos Corners, or aka Rogersville, was a brick granary, known as Brick Granary, sitting on land grant issued by Duke of York, in 1 676.

The granary dates back to 1775 and Daniel Rogers who came to what was

known as the “wading place” of the Cedar Creek from Pungoteague, in Accomack, Virginia. David age 21, son of gentry of Virginia, James and Patience Rogers, large

land owners, the family of Daniel Rogers who had been in Virginia since 1665.

Young Daniel came in 1775, with some financial means and purchased 128 acres of farm land from heirs of Reynear Williams and son Joathan, land owners on Slaughter Neck.

Just before the Revolution land at the head of major rivers in Kent & Sussex Delaware,

were settled by families of Levin Crapper at Mispillion, Clark Conwell , Broadkill, Benjamin

Waples at Primehook, and, Avery Draper at Cedar Creek, to capitalize on river trade to

Philadelphia merchants and establish grist mills, bark mills, trading stores, taverns and

wharves, providing access for local grain, cord wood, barrel staves by sailing schooners

to growing cities along the Atlantic coast.

When Daniel Rogers arrived in Cedar Creek at age 21 he was single, bought the 128

acre farm from Littleton Townsend and Jonathan Williams, heirs to Reynear Williams,

staunch member of St. Matthews Anglican church established 1705 on Cedar Creek

\millpond. Reynear was owner of the Brick Granary.

Daniel Rogers was quick in commerce, traded with Levin Crapper, most successful

area merchant, who at age 65 was Rogers model. Crapper had a grist mill on the Mispillion

and lived in an impressive brick mansion which soon became the home of Daniel Rogers

in 1780.

As Rogers began trade with Philadelphoia, Crapper died in 1775, leaving a son, five

daughters, a grandson, Zadock Crapper II . Rogers was administrator of Crappers will and

became well known by the heirs. Crapers estate was large and took years to settle. He had

2500 acres of land,, sailing vessels, vast stores of goods, his only heir was son Moulton

who died two years after his father.

Moulton left a widow, Esther, and son Zadock II. Daniel Rogers married Esther, July 20,

1778 and moved to the mansion by 1780. They had children, James, Thomas and Betsy.

Rogers operated the Brick Granary farm on Cedar Creek, and the large Crapper estate, now

partly owned by his wife Esther, Rogers was guardian of Zadock II, and purchased the

Crapper Mansion. End Part 1