[1]. Yet they seem to have regarded experience and common-sense remedies as a part of natural means, since they made use of ordinary home remedies and good nursing.
[2]. Although New London, at that time, included all that is now known as Groton, Ledyard, Stonington, Montville, Waterford and East Lyme, we find, by the proportion which James Rogers paid for the support of the minister, that his property amounted to about one-tenth of that of the entire plantation. The minister’s salary was £80 a year. Says Miss Caulkins: “Rate lists for the minister’s tax are extant for the years 1664, 1666 and 1667. In this list the amount of each man’s taxable property is given and the rate levied upon it is carried out. The assessment of James Rogers is nearly double that of any other inhabitant.” His rate was £7 19s. 10d., nearly three times that of Governor Winthrop, which was £2 14s.
[3]. The first Baptist church of Newport was formed before May, 1639, by some excommunicated members of the church at Boston and others. From its organization, it rejected the supervision of civil magistrates. Dr. John Clarke was its founder and first pastor. In 1671, several member of Mr. Clarke’s church organized themselves into the Sabbatarian or Seventh Day Baptist Church of Newport (then Aquedneck) which James Rogers and his family joined, as above stated.
[4]. It will be understood that while “profaning” the first day Sabbath, they were strictly keeping the scriptural seventh day Sabbath.
[5]. For particular account of this and a previous countermove, see [Part II, Chap. 2.]
[6]. About 1705, the Rogerene Society came to the conclusion that the Jewish Sabbath and ordinances were, according to the teachings of the New Testament, done away with by the new dispensation, and they began to hold their meetings on Sunday as the more convenient day. See [Part II, Chap. VI].
[7]. During the countermove, 1764-1766. See [Part II, Chapter XII].
[8]. Here John Rogers quotes from Peter Pratt.
[9]. That this was the true ground, both on the part of the Griswolds and the General Court, is patent in the light of the many evidences, but this being untenable ground for a divorce, an ostensible cause was presented by the Griswolds, which, upon investigation by the grand jury, brought forth “we find not the bill.” The divorce was, therefore, granted upon no legal grounds and with no stated cause. For the authenticated facts, see [Part II, Chapter XI].
[10]. This act was not materially different from the former laws of this kind.