James Rogers

James Rogers (c. 1726 – September 23, 1790) was an Irish-born soldier. He emigrated to America at a young age and became a frontiersman. He served with his brother Robert Rogers during the French and Indian War. He then served as Loyalist leader during the American War of Independence and later settled in Ontario in Canada. Rogers was born to James and Mary Rogers in Ireland, and they immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony around 1729. Robert Rogers was born in 1731 and a third brother Richard in 1733. During the French and Indian War, he served in Rogers' Rangers, a provincial Ranger Corps raised by his brother Robert Rogers. He was with Robert in the Battle on Snowshoes in January 1757, the Siege of Louisbourg (1758) and the...