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Drury Rogers

Drury Rogers died 1791 in Wilkes County, Georgia, his estate administered with Tabitha Rogers, his widow, and Brittain Rogers, his son, ad administrators.

In 1773, he sold his land of 147 acres in Johnston County, North Carolina and removed to Georgia, making application before the Ceded Lands Commission of Wilkes County, Georgia on October 15, 1773. On November 8, 1773, he was granted 300 acres on the Ogeechee River, between Poplar Creek and Camp Creek.

On August 24, 1774, he signed a protest repudiating the resolutions passed on August 10, 1774 by the hot-headed patriots of the coast, at Wrightsboro, Georgia. In 1784, he received land grants in Georgia for his service in the Revolutionary War.

Source: Candler's Revolutionary War Records of Georgia, Vol. I, page 28; The Georgians by Jeannette Holland Austin, p. 310.