In this exhibit, the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections has selected items from their extensive collection of family papers and institutional records to pay tribute to students past and present. View Exhibit
The Reverend Daniel Rogers was born to Reverend John Rogers, of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and Martha Whittingham on July 28, 1707. He graduated at Harvard College in 1725 (his grandfather, John Rogers, was fifth president of Harvard from 1676 to his death in 1684). Daniel was ordained in 1742, and became pastor of the Second Parish Church in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1744. He continued at this church until his death in 1785. He married Anna, daughter of Rev. Thomas Foxcroft of Boston, and they had five children.
The diaries of Daniel Rogers consist of thirty-one volumes, covering the years 1730 to 1759 and 1762 to 1785. They are all part of the R. Stanton Avery Collections at NEHGS. The entries, written in interleaved almanacs, mainly concerned the weather. But on the date of July 19, 1776, Rogers wrote the following entry, included here in observance of Independence Day.
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