After the death of president Oakes he was elected his successor in April 1682, and was installed Aug. 12, 1683. He died suddenly July 2, 1684,

Rogers of Dedham, in England, and a horse deprived him of the use of his grandson of John Rogers, the martyr. right hand; much of his property was He was born in 1598, and was educated consumed by fire; and he buried two at Emanuel college, Cambridge. The wives and all his children. He was evils, to which his puritan principles ex- pious, zealous, and persevering. His feeposed him, induced him to come to N. ble health induced him when in England England. He sailed June 1, 1636; but to study the science of medicine. Though did not cast anchor in Mass. bay till Nov. his strong passions sometimes misled him; 16th. In the following year he was a yet he was so humble as readily to acmember of the synod together with Mr. knowledge his error. He preached the Partridge, who came in the same vessel. election sermon in 1643, in which he veHe was settled in the place of Mr. Ward hemently exhorted his hearers never to as colleague with Mr. Norton at Ipswich choose the same man governor for two Feb. 20,1659, and died July 3, 1655,aged successive years; but his exhortation was 57. His son, John, was president of disregarded, for Mr. Winthrop was reHarvard college; his only daughter mar-elected.—Magnalia, 111. 101-104. ried Rev. Wm. Hubbard. As a preacher ROGERS, John, president of Harhe possessed a lively eloquence, which vard college, was graduated in this semicharmed his hearers. Though one of nary in 1649. He was the son of N. the greatest men among the first settlers Rogers, with whom he preached some of N. E., he was very humble, modest, time as an assistant at Ipswich, but at and reserved. He published a letter to a length his inclination to the study of member of the house of commons in 1643, physic withdrew his attention from theoin which he pleads for a reformation of logy. church affairs, and he left in manuscript a vindication of the congregational church government in Latin. Magn. 111.104-108. ROGERS, Ezekiel first minister of Rowley Mass., a cousin of the preceding, was born in England in 1590, the son of Richard Rogers of Wethersfield. After being educated at Cambridge, he became the chaplain of sir Francis Barrington. His preaching was in a strain of oratory, wich delighted his hearers. He afterwards received the benefice of Rowley, where his benevolent labors were attended with great success. At length his nonconformity obliged him to seek a refuge from persecution in New England, where he arrived in 1688, bringing with him a number of respectable families. He commenced the plantation at Rowley in April 1639, and Dec. 3, was ordained. He died after a lingering sickness Jan. 23, 1661, aged 70. His 3d wife was the daughter of John Wilson. His library he bequeathed to Harvard college, and his house and lands to the town for the support of the ministry. In the latter part of his life it pleased God to overwhelm him with calamities. A fall from his

the day after commencement, aged 53, and was succeeded by Increase Mather. He was remarkable for the sweetness of his temper, and he united to unfeigned piety the accomplishments of the gentleman. His wife was Elizabeth Dennison; his daughter married president Leverett; his son, Daniel, a physician in Ipswich, died in a snow storm on Hampton beach Dec. 1, 1722, leaving a son, Daniel, the minister of Littleton, who died Nov. 1782, aged 75; his son, Nathaniel, was the minister of Portsmouth, and died, Oct. 3, 1723, aged 53; his son, John, the minister of Ipswich, died Dec. 28, 1745, aged 78, leaving three sons, who were ministers,--John of Kittery, who in Oct. 16, 1773, aged, 81, Nathaniel of Ipswich, a colleague, who died in 1775, aged 72, and Daniel of Exeter, who died in Dec. 1785, aged 79. John R., the minister of Gloucester, who died Oct. 4, 1782, aged 63, was the son of J. R. of Kittery, or Eliot. Truly this was a family of ministers.-Magn. iv. 130.

ROGERS, Robert, major, the son of ROMEYN, Theodoric Direk, D. D., James R., an Irishman, an early settler minister of Schenectady, N. Y.. the son of Dunbarton, N. H., commanded a com- of Nicholas R., was born Jan. 12, 1744 pany in the war of 1755, and "Rogers' at New Barbadoes, N. Jersey. His earRangers" were celebrated for their ex-ly studies were directed by his brother, ploits. March 13, 1758 with 170 men he Thomas R., then a minister in Delaware. fought 100 French and 600 Indians; after He graduated at Princeton in 1765; losing 100 men & killing 150 he retreated. ordained by the Coetus over the Dutch In 1759 he was sent by Amherst from church in Ulster county May 14, 1766, Crown Point to destroy the Indian vil- and afterwards installed at Hackensack, lage of St. Francis, which service was where he remained until his removal to performed; 200 Indians were killed. O- Schenectady in Nov. 1784. In 1797 he bliged to return by the way of the Conn. was appointed professor of theology in river, the party suffered great hardships. the Dutch church. The establishment After serving in the Cherokee war he of the college at Schenectady is principalwas appointed in 1766 governor of Mich-ly to be ascribed to his efforts. He died illimackinac. Accused of a plot for April 16, 1804, aged 60. His colleague, plundering the fort and joining the Mr. Meyer, represents him as a son of French, he was sent in irons to Montreal thunder in the pulpit. He was highly and tried by a court martial. In 1769 he instrumental in promoting the indepenwent to England and was presented to dence of the Dutch churches, or their the king; but was soon imprisoned for separation from the jurisdiction of Holdebt. In the war of the revolution he land. His only son, Dr. John B. R., joined the enemy, and, while command- successively minister of Rhinebeck, Scheing a corps at an outpost near Marro-nectady, Albany, and Cedar street, N. neck, narrowly escaped being taken pris-York, died Feb. 22, 1825, aged 46; oner Oct. 21, 1776 by a party sent out whose sermons were published 2 vols. by lord Stirling. He soon went to England. His name is included in the act of N. H. against tories of Nov. 19, 1778. His father was shot in the woods, being mistaken for a bear; his brother, capt. James R., died at Louisbourg; his broth-try, Conn., was born in Jan. 1737; his er, Richard, was slain in 1756.-He published a concise account of N. America, London, 1765; Journals of the French war, 1765; this was republished, entitled, Reminiscences of the French war, with the life of Stark, 12mo.Concord, 1831.

ROGERS, William, D. D., a minister, in Philadelphia, was born at Newport, R. I., July 22, 1751, and was the first student at the college of R. I.; graduating in 1769. In May 1771 he was ordained over the first baptist church in Philadelphia. During 5 years he was a chaplain in the army. In 1789 he was appointed professor of belles lettres in the college of Philadelphia, which office he resigned in 1812. He died April 24, 1824, aged 73. He published a sermon on the death of Rev. O. Hart, 1796.

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ROOT, Jesse, judge, a patriot of the revolution, the son of Ebenezer R., and grandson of Thomas R., both of whom removed from Northampton to Coven

mother was Sarah Strong, daughter of Joseph S., also from Northampton. Having graduated at Princeton college in 1756, he preached about three years, and then in consequence of the circumstances of his family was induced to study law. In 1763 he was admitted to the bar. Residing at Hartford, early in 1777 he raised a company and marched to join the army of Washington, and was made a lieut. colonel. From May 1779 till the close of the war he was a member of congress. In 1789 he was appointed a judge of the superior court and was chief justice from 1796 till his resignation in 1807, on reaching the age of 70. He died March 29, 1822, aged 85. As a judge he was learned and dignified. He was through life a man of exemplary piety. To the great

doctrines of the gospel he was ever strongly attached; and he abounded in acts of charity. At the age of 85 he was accustomed to attend prayer meetings and religious conferences. In the evening of his death he said, "I set out on a pleasant journey in the morning, and I shall get through to night."

ROSS, George, judge, a patriot of the revolution, the son of an episcopal minister at New Castle, Delaware, was born in 1730. Having studied law with his brother in Philadelphia, he settled in Lancaster. Being a member of congress from 1774 to 1777, he signed the declaration of independence. For his public services the people of the county voted him 1507. out of the treasury; but he declined to receive it, deeming it the duty of a representative of the people to promote the public welfare without expecting pecuniary rewards. In April 1779 he was appointed a judge of the court of admiralty. He died of a sudden attack of the gout in July 1779, aged 49. While he was a patriotic citizen and a learned and skilful lawyer, he was also kind and affectionate at home.-Goodrich.

he was appointed physician general of the hospital in the middle military department; in 1787 he was a member of the convention for adopting the constitution of the U. S.; and for the last 14 years of his life treasurer of the U. S. mint. He was president of the society for the abolition of slavery; vice-president of the Philadelphia Bible society; and connected also with many other charitable and literary societies. His short Inquiry into the effect of ardent spirits upon the human body and mind was a most valuable treatise and one of the earliest productions on the subject of temperance. He also wrote against the use of tobacco, describing the effect of its habitual use on health, morals, and property. His zeal for the interests of learning induced him to be one of the founders of Dickinson college at Carlisle ; he also eloquently advocated the universal establishment of free schools. He died of the pleurisy, after an illness of five days, April 19, 1813,aged 67. His wife was Julia, the daughter of Richard Stockton. Nine children survived him. Richard Rush, his son, was secretary of the treasury in the adminisRUSH, Benjamin, M. D., a physician, tration of John Q. Adams; in p. 595 of descended from ancestors, who early em- this book he is said by mistake to have igrated from England to Pennsylvania. been secretary of state. Dr. Rush was He was born at Byberry, 14 miles north one of the most eminent physicians and east of Philadelphia, Dec. 24, 1745. After most learned medical writers of our counthe death of his father, his mother sent try. His writings contain many expreshim to the academy of his uncle, Dr.sions of piety. It was his usual practice Finley, in Nottingham, Maryland, where at the close of each day to read to his he lived eight years and became deeply collected family a chapter in the Bible and impressed with moral and religious senti- to address God in prayer. His characments. Having graduated at Princeton ter is fully described in Thacher's medical in 1760, he studied physic with Redman biography, where may be found a list and Shippen, and also at Edinburgh from of the subjeets of his various writings. 1766 to 1768. He returned to Philadel- His medical works are in six vols. phia in 1769, and was elected the profes- published also a vol. of Essays, literary, sor of chemistry in the college; in 1791 moral, and philosophical, 1798.-Thachhe was appointed professor of medicine. er, 11. 29–71. In his practice he relied much on the lancet and on cathartic medicines. the yellow fever of 1793, when 4,044 person died, he successfully resorted to his favorite remedies. Being a member of congress in 1776, his name is affixed to the declaration of independence. In 1777

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RUSH, Jacob, LL. D., judge, brother of the preceding, was born in 1746; graduated at Princeton college in 1765; and was for many years president of the court of common pleas for Philadelphia, where he died Jan. 5, 1820, aged 74. In the controversy between Dickinson and Reed,

he was a writer on the side of the former., him from misery; and the same young He published his Charges on moral and man became respectable and pious.-Mc religious subjects, 1803. Murray's serm.

RUTLEDGE, John, chief justice of the U.S.,was the son of Dr.John R., who with his brother, Andrew, a lawyer, emigrated from Ireland to Charleston about 1735. Having studied law at the temple, he returned to Charleston in 1761, and soon proved himself an able lawyer and accomplished orator. He took an early and distinguished part in support of the liberties of his country at the commencement of the late revolution. He was a member of the first congress in 1774. When the temporary constitution of S. Carolina was

RUSSELL, James, a councillor of Mass., was the descendant of Richard R,, who settled at Charlestown in 1640 and was treasurer of the colony. He was born in C. Aug. 16, 1715, and died April 24, 1798, aged 82. He discharged the duties of a judge, and of other public offices, which he sustained, with the greatest fidelity. To the poor he was a steady and liberal friend. He respected the institutions of the gospel, and, while his family and his closet witnessed his constant devotions, his life adorned the religion, which he professed. In his last ill-established in March 1776, he was apness he was supported and consoled by the truths of the gospel. His son, Thomas Russell, one of the first merchants in the U. S., and distinguished for his beneficence to the poor, died in Boston April 8, 1796, aged 55.

pointed the president, and commander in chief of the colony. He continued in this station till the adoption of the new constitution in March 1778, to which he refused to give his assent. He was opposed to it, because it annihilated the RUTGERS, Henry, colonel, a patriot council, reducing the legislative authoriof the revolution, fought at Brooklyn ty from three to two branches, and was heights. The British occupied his house too democratic in its features. In 1799, as a hospital, and barracks. In 1807 he however, he was chosen governor, with delivered an address on laying the cor- the authority in conjunction with the ner stone of the Reformed Dutch church council to do whatever the public safety in Orchard street. He died in Feb. 1830, required. He soon took the field at the aged 84. He was a respected, useful cit- head of the militia. All the energies of izen of New York; in his politics a decid- the state were called forth. During the ed partizan, but never engaging in any siege of Charleston at the request of gen. important measure without making it a Lincoln he left the city, that the executive special subject of prayer. It were well if authority might be preserved, though the politicians would follow his example; capital should fall. Having called a genthere would then be likely to be in their eral assembly in Jan. 1782, he addressed movements less of greedy selfishness and them in a speech, in which he depicted vindictive passion and more of disinteres- the perfidy, rapine, and cruelty, which tedness and of virtuous calmness. Being stained the British arms. In 1784 he was very rich, col. Rutgers was abundant in a judge of the court of chancery; in his charities for almost all public objects 1789 a judge of the supreme court of the and towards numerous individuals. He U. S.; in 1791 chief justice of S. C.; and expended for others an immense sum. In in 1796 chief justice of the U. S. He died one instance he received a note, in which in July 1800. He was a man of eminent the writer, then at the door, begged his talents, patriotism, decision, and firmness. assistance, intimating, that in the failure His son, gen. John R., a distinguished of it he should kill himself. He convers-member of congress, died at Philadelphia ed with the young man, and found, that Sept. 1, 1819, aged 53. he had ruined himself by gambling. But be cautiously interposed and saved him from the meditated crime and rescued

RUTLEDGE, Edward, governor of South Carolina, brother of the preceding, was born in Charleston in Nov. 1749. In