Background
He was the second son of John Rogers, by his first wife, and was born at Haverhill, Suffolk, in 1598.
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Nathaniel Rogers
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He was educated at Dedham grammar school and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, which he entered as a sizar on 9 May 1614, graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1617 and Master of Arts
Career
According to the Dictionary of National Biography article on Rogers (published 1897), his descendants in America were at that time more numerous than those of any other early English emigrant family. In 1621. Foreign two years he was domestic chaplain to some person of rank, and then went as curate to John Barkham at Bocking, Essex. His rector finally dismissed him for performing the burial office over an eminent person without a surplice.
Giles Firmin calls Rogers "a man so able and judicious in soul-work that I would have trusted my own soul with him", and describes his preaching in his father"s pulpit at Dedham.
On leaving Bocking he was for five years rector of Assington, Suffolk. Rogers was ordained pastor of Ipswich, Massachusetts, on 20 February 1638, when he succeeded Nathaniel Ward as co-pastor with John Norton.
He died at Ipswich on 3 July 1655, aged 57. Mary, baptised at Coggeshall on 8 February 1628, married to William Hubbard;
John baptised at Coggeshall, Essex, on 23 January 1630, who became President of Harvard.
Membership
On 6 September he took the oath of freedom at Ipswich, and was soon appointed a member of the synod, and one of a body deputed to reconcile a difference between the legalists and the antinomians.
