Source: Vital Records of Rhode Island, Westerly, Washington Co., Volume 554
Letter from Peleg Rogers to his father-in-law, Thomas Brand, in LymanCollection, UNC Library, Chapel Hill, NC.

March 1781, Henry County, Virginia. Peleg Rogers, a soldier in BriceMartin's Co. of Militia, ordered to march to Hillsborough, NorthCarolina, to assist at Battle of Guilford Ct. Hse.

A. O. Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, pg. 368,

"Thomas Rogers was the son of James Rogers and Mary of Newport, RhodeIsland. He was born in 1639 and died November 23, 1719. His wife, Sarah,died after 1716.

1668 -- Listed as Freeman.

1680 -- Taxed 19s, 4d.

September 8, 1696 -- Bought of Thomas Earle, for 110, land in Dartmouth.He is called of Portsmouth at this date, but he was not there longprobably, his residence being chiefly at Newport.

February 4, 1702 -- He was a proprietor in common lands at Newport.

November 28, 1716 -- Will -- proved December 17, 1719. Extr. son Samuel.He calls himself aged seventy-seven years. To wife, Sarah, half ofdwelling house and land. To son Samuel, half of dwelling house and land.To son James, 5 sh. To son Thomas, 7. To daughter Sarah, wife of ThomasWells, 5. To son John Rogers, 5 sh. To daughter Elizabeth, wife of SamuelBailey, 5. To son Jeremiah, 3. To son Joseph, 6. To son Daniel, 6. Todaughter Abigail Rogers, unmarried, 12. To grandson Edward Rogers, 10 sh."

A. O. Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, pg. 369,

"Thomas was the second son of Thomas Rogers of Newport. He married AnnTripp, daughter of Peleg and Anne (Sisson) Tripp. He died in Westerly onAugust 22, 1736.

December 30, 1706 -- Bought 12 acres in Portsmouth from Peleg Tripp.

January 29, 1709 -- Bought 10 acres of Samuel Bailey of New Port (CalledThomas, Jr. in this deed).

January 1, 1713 --Sold the 12 acres in Portsmouth to Job Sherman. WifeAnne released her dower.

February 16, 1716 -- Sold 30 acres in Newport to Captain James Clarke,bounded northerly by land of Thomas Rogers. (Calls himself Thomas, Jr.)

February 1, 1724/5 -- Gives son Job 133 acres in Westerly, for love andaffection.

February 1, 1724/5 -- Gives son Peleg 167 acres in Westerly adjacent toabove land to Job, for love and affection.

February 20, 1736 -- Will -- Codicill -- August 3, 1736, proved August30, 1736. Extrix, daughter Leah. Overseer, friend, John Hoxie. To wife,Anna, all estate, real and personal while widow. To son Peleg, 5shillings, he having had. To son Job, 5 shillings. To daughters AnnaGeorge and Mary Richmond, 5 each. To daughter, Elizabeth Wheeler, 30acres. To grandson John Mason, son to daughter Sarah Mason, deceased, 10acres, he paying 20 shillings each to brothers and sisters, viz: Robert,Simeon, Margaret, Elizabeth, and Sarah. To grandchildren, children ofdaughter Ruth Wilcox, viz: Thomas, Stephen, John, and Anne, 5 shillingseach. To daughter Leah Rogers, 30 acres. To daughters Priscilla Hill,Rebecca Rogers, and Penelope Macknear, rest of land equally. The codicilgives daughter Elizabeth Wheeler 20, daughter Anne George, 15,grandaughter Mary George, 5, and to daughter Leah, rest of movables. Leahwas now made sole executrix, her mother who had been named with her asexecutrix at first having evidently died. Inventory value, 254, 9s, 9dviz: wearing apparel, 10; bible and other books, 10s; cash and a bond,43, 10s; gun, 3, 10s; two spinning wheels, warming pan, silver spoon,four young oxen. three cows, two yearling, eight hogs, mare, etc."

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Census - [date: 1850] [place: Telfair County, Georgia]

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Source: Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia (pg. 359)

"His home and large well-improved and well-equipped plantation was nearthe present village of Uvalda in Montgomery county. He became a wealthyand influential citizen of his county in his day. Figures from Montgomerycounty tax digests show his large estate: In 1854 the digest shows heowned 3127 acres of land, 19 slaves, and other properties; the 1859digest shows 3000 acres of land and 27 slaves, livestock and otherproperty. He served as a Justice of Montgomery Inferior Court, 1841-1860.He and most of his family were members of the Baptist Church. . . . Heand his wives and most of their children are all buried in Dead RiverCemetery on the Montgomery-Tattnall county line."

Source: Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia

"William Ryals, a Revolutionary Soldier in N.C., who spent his lasttwenty-odd years in Tattnall County, GA, was born 1748 in N.C. and asthought, in that part of Cumberland County which became Robeson County inthe 1780s. He was married to Edith Childs in N.C. (D.A.R. papers whichhave been accepted now for some years, state she was born 1755 andmarried 1773, but which in the light of the births of their children,seem to have been approximations and to be too early). . . .
NOTE: It seems that Rev. David Ryals, a well-known and and belovedpioneer Baptist minister and missionary in Telfair, Wilcox, Irwin, Coffeeand Clinch counties in the 1840s and 1850s, was a son of William Ryals;if so, he was not named in the latter's will. Rev. David Ryals was born1795 in N.C., married Rachael Rogers in Telfair County, October 27, 1816,and was living in Telfair in the 1850 Census.
William Ryals moved to Georgia in 1806 or 1807, and settled inTattnall County, living there until his death Feb. 1, 1828, testate. Hefirst appears as a tax-payer in Tattnall on the 1807 tax digest. His homeand plantation was on Milligan's Creek. Beginning with 200 acres of land,his holdings by 1822 amounted to 1050 acres together with a number ofslaves. His wife died about 1835, and was buried by her husband in thecemetery at Dead River (or New Hope) Baptist Church where others of thefamily were buried; most of the graves of family there are marked.
Mr. Ryals and most of his family were members of New Hope BaptistChurch which has been extinct many years. The old cemetery there is knownas the Dead River cemetery.
NOTE: Credit for this record is due to Mrs. Joseph Ryals Gray ofAtlanta, whose husband is a descendant. While most of details were knownpreviously, Mrs. Gray has spent much time in checking out and verifyingthe record, adding to it, straightening out some errors andinconsistencies that had existed for some time in the accepted record.The notation above concerning Rev. David Ryals, is the Compiler's and nothers.
War Record: Private in Captain Armstrong's company, 2nd NorthCarolina Regiment, enlisting June 26, 1777 and served three years.Private in Captain Hall's company, same regiment, enlisting June 12,1782, and serving until independence and the end of the war the nextyear."