Amos Rogers (1755-1820)

He was born in New London, Connecticut. He served his time with 'Master Orrin' and built the Ryan house on Truman Street at New London. He lived at Pequonnock where he had a lumber and brickyard. He was drowned between Pequonnock and New London, "having been upset in a squall , while sailing a yacht brought back from Russia by his son, Moses; it was curiously built, without the use of nails". He married Sarah Phillips of Lyme, Connecticut and had seven children, three of whom married children of their distant cousin Stevens Rogers, of Waterford, Connecticut.