Rogers, Timothy, 1756–1834
Timothy Rogers (1756–1834) was a Quaker settler. He is notable for founding Quaker settlements that eventually became Newmarket and Pickering in what is now Ontario, Canada.
Rogers was born into poverty in Lyme, Connecticut Colony, on May 22, 1756. He was born out of wedlock to Timothy Rogers Sr. (1735-1774) and Mary Huntley (1731-) and treated like an orphan. Rogers spent most of his childhood hired out to earn his own keep, and had very little formal education. He moved with an uncle to Nine Partners, New York, around the age of six. Though raised in Baptist circles, in his early twenties, Rogers joined the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Rogers and his first wife Sarah Wilde pioneered farms in Danby, Vermont; Saratoga, New York; and Ferrisburgh, Vermont. The family would buy, or be granted, a plot of undeveloped land, develop it, then sell it and take the profits to buy a bigger plot.
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