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Subject: Re: [ROGERS-BEN] John (the Powder Maker) Continued
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 15:12:55 EDT


Ray,

You wrote: Now it is your turn to convince me that he was at King's Mt.

I hope you know that I, just like you, am attempting to gather information,
facts, data about our ancestors. The fact is that some of John (the Powder
Maker's) descendants believed that he was at the battle of King's Mountain.

Was he there? I don't know. Could he have been there? I'd say yes, he
could have been. Col. William Campbell who John and his brothers served
under at the battle of Guilford Co Courthouse brought a large number of
frontiersmen from SW VA to this battle. Some were from Montgomery Co.

There is no shortage of written accounts of this battle, but the lists of the
men who served are at best incomplete and certainly do not agree with each
other. B. G. Moss' book, The Patriots at Kings Mountain, lists a James and a
John Rogers. Moss provides a list of men who WERE at the battle and are
found in official sources. These two appear on a list of "men who were
possibly on the Kings Mountain campaign or were possibly in the battle".

He tells us that the number of men who participated far exceeds the number
who have been "proven" to have been there. In other words, there are a lot
of men who were at the battle that have not yet been proven to have been
there. In addition, there were about 1500 men who were on the campaign, but
left at The Cowpens and did not reach the battle. In other words, the
documentation is just not very good.

There is a James Rodgers listed in Annals of Southwest Virginia, p.1405 as
serving in Bowen's Company at the Battle of Kings Mountain. Bowen was
Captain William Bowen who was ill at the time of the battle. William's
brother, Lt. Reece, took command of the company and was killed at the battle.
This is probably the same James Rogers or Rodgers who served at Minden
(Maiden) Spring Station Fort in 1774. This "fort" was actually a blockhouse
built by Reece Bowen on his land in 1772 for a refuge.

So, was John at the battle of Kings Mountain? I don't think we have enough
information to say that he was, but there must be something behind Stephen H.
Rogers claim. I think we should keep the door open on this one.

Jerry

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