ew Hampshire, conveyed to him as "a reduced officer" a
tract of three thousand acres, lying in the southern part of Vermont.

One[A] conveyance made by him and bearing date December 20, 1762,
arrests our attention. By it he transferred to his father-in-law, Rev.
Arthur Brown, before mentioned, some five hundred acres of land in
Rumford (now Concord, New Hampshire) together with "one negro man, named
Castro Dickerson, aged about twenty-eight; one negro woman, named
Sylvia; one negro boy named Pomp, aged about twelve and one Indian boy,
named Billy, aged about thirteen." For what reason this property was
thus transferred I have no means of knowing. If the object of the
conveyance was to secure it as a home to his wife and children against
any liabilites he might incur in his irregular life, the end sought was
subsequently attained, as the land descended even to his
grand-children.[B]

[Footnote A: The old "Rogers house," so called, is still standing upon
the former estate of Major Rogers, on the east side and near the south
end of Main Street, in Concord, New Hampshire. It must be at least a
hundred years old, and faces the South, being two stories high on the
front side and descending by a long sloping roof to one in the rear. It
was occupied for many years by Captain and Mrs. Roach, and later by
Arthur, son of Major Rogers, who was a lawyer by profession and died at
Portsmouth, in 1841.]

[Footnote B: A portion of this estate was subsequently sold by his
descendants to the late Governor Isaac Hill, of Concord, New Hampshire.]

And I may as well, perhaps, just here and now anticipate a little by
saying that Major Rogers did not prove a good husband, and that
seventeen years after their marriage his wife felt constrained, February
12, 1778, to petition the General Assembly of New Hampshire for a
divorce from him on the ground of desertion and infidelity. An act
granting the same passed the Assembly on the twenty-eighth day of
February and the Council on the fourth of March following.[A]

[Footnote A: "An act to dissolve the marriage between Robert Rogers and
Elizabeth, his wife.

"Whereas, Elizabeth Rogers of Portsmouth, in the County of Rockingham,
and State aforesaid, hath petitioned the General Assembly for said
State, setting forth that she was married to the said Robert Rogers
about seventeen years ago; for the greater part of which time he had
absented himself from and totally neglected to support and maintain