DANIEL ROGERS
NEWCOMER TO SLAUGHTER NECK
1775
Daniel Rogers was a
newcomer to Slaughter Neck , considering, that a 1000
acre tract, ' Little
Bolton' , at the mouth of Cedar Creek , was assigned by a
Duke
of York patent to
Alexander Draper a hundred years earlier , January 20, 1675, to
be
followed by another 1210
acre patent, ' Draper's Addition' , to Alexander Draper, Jr.,
April 10, 1719. It is
important to know that Slaughter Neck was settled by amilies and
friends of Alexander Draper
, neighbors in Northampton county Virginia and two settlements
in Somrset county, Maryland
known as Annemessex and Manoken. These families were
the Thomas Davis' , Luke
Watsons' and John Bennett, all Anglican church refugees of
the Virginia Colony.
Between 1675 and 1775 four generations of these families had
grown and expanded
holdings from the bay to five miles or more into the county. Davis
family settled a slaughter
Creek tract, “Good Luck” , and, parts of “Prime Hook”
patent.
Bennett family settled a
300 acre tract along south bank Cedar Creek between the Brick
Granary and Little Bolton
of Alexander Draper.
Abstract from Dave Kenton's
Brick Granary & Rogersville paper of 2008
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