Individual Details

Event

Ann Rogers was the daughter of Robert Rogers and Rebecca his wife, arid Robert Rogers had owmed this farm in his lifetime ; his executors, Nathan Potts and Robert Connard, deeding the same to John Cunrad on May 2d, 1773. Here the entire married life of John and Ann was spent.

Death

John died in 1793, and by his will left everything to his widow Ann, during her life, and after her death the farm \yas to be sold and the proceeds divided, share and share alike among his five children, except Henry and Sarah, who received ^10 each in addition to their one-fifth share. His son Robert, some thir- teen years previous to his father's death, had gone to Nova Scotia, in company with Enoch Supplee, who had married his sister Sarah. Tradi- tion says that both of these persons were tories during the Revolution, and they got the credit of committing depredations in the neighborhood against certain loyal Americans. The indignation arising in the com- munity led them to foreign parts for safety. In his father's will, provision is made "that if my son Robert does not come to demand his dividend within the space of seven years next after the decease of my said wife, that then and in such case his share shall be equally divided between my other children and their heirs." Robert, however, after the death of his mother did come and demanded his dividend and received the same from his father's executors. In the latter years of his life Robert was greatly afflicted with palsy. John's personal property was appraised at ^35, 13P, and 2S. Ann, the widow of John, lived fifteen years after her husband's death, making her home during that time wich her son Benjamin, on the old home place.

Birth

was born on the old homestead of his father in Whitpain township