fourteenth of February, 1761.

From New York, there is reason to suppose, that he went this same year
as Captain of one of the His Majesty's Independent Companies of Foot to
South Carolina, and there aided Colonel Grant in subduing the Cherokees,
who had for a year or two been committing depredations upon the
Carolinian frontiers.

From this time onward for the next two years we lose sight of Major
Rogers, but he re-appears at the siege of Detroit in 1763. Hither he
went with twenty Rangers as part of a body of soldiers sent from Fort
Niagara under the command of Captain Dalzell for the re-inforcement of
the beleagured fort. He arrived on the twenty-ninth of July, and on the
thirty-first took an active part in the fierce battle of Bloody Bridge.
His valor was as useful as it was conspicuous on that occasion, and but
for his daring efforts the retreat of the British troops would have been
more disastrous even than it was. Having, for a time, in the house of
the Frenchman, Campean, held at bay a throng of savages which surrounded
it, his escape with a few followers at one door was hardly achieved ere
these burst in at another.

The next glimpse we get of Major Rogers is at Rumford (now Concord)
where he had a landed estate of some four or five hundred acres. Good
old Parson Walker, who here kept open house, and for more than fifty
years watched with solicitude the interests of his parish and his
country, says, in his diary for 1764, against date of February 24:
"Major Rogers dined with us" and again December 22:--"Major Rogers and
Mr. Scales, Jr., dined with me."

It is probable that his private affairs now occupied his attention. A
year or so after the surrender of Montreal he was married to Elizabeth,
daughter of Rev. Arthur Brown, Rector of St. John's Church, in
Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He considered this town his residence, and in
papers executed this very year (1764) sometimes designates himself "as
of Portsmouth," and at others, as "now residing at Portsmouth."

For three or four years, between 1762 and 1765, he trafficked a good
deal in lands, buying and selling numerous and some quite extensive
tracts. Some twenty-five different conveyances to him are on record in
the Recorder's office of Rockingham County, and half as many from him to
other parties.

Some of these lands he seems to have purchased and some to have received
in consideration of military services. In 1764 Benning Wentworth, as
Governor of N