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Early Adventurers on the Western Waters by Mary B Kegley, printed by Walsworth Publishing Company, Marceline, Missouri for Kegley Books, Wytheville, VA 24382"
William Rogers was an early settler on Mine Mill Creek. He is mentioned in the 1771 and 1772 tithable lists and in Newell`s lists of 1781 and 1782. William owned 200 acres on the head of the creek, a tract he sold in 1815 to Joseph Jackson. According to the tax assessment records, William Rodgters, Senr., owned a farm on Mine Mill Creek, on the south side of Lick Mountain, 378 acres with one dwelling house of wood, 1 1/2 stories 22 feet by 18 feet, one barn, and other "cabbens, not worth mentioning", valued at $900. No wife is mentioned in local documents, and he left no will in Wythe County (Kegley, "Tithables"m pp 11, 17; Kegley, "Militia", pp 31, 31; Wythe County Deed Book 6, p 347; Kegley, "Tax Assessment, p 143).
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