After three years of research, traveling, and gathering documents, I was finally able to prove the parentage of John Anthony enabling me to verify that Thomas Rogers, Mayflower passenger, is my 12th great grandfather.
Governor Bradford says in his history of the Plymouth settlement that on board the Mayflower were “Thomas Rogers and Joseph his son; his other children came afterwards……Thomas Rogers died in the first sickness but his son Joseph is still living (1650) and is married and hath six children. The rest of Thomas Rogers’ [children] came over and are married and have many children.” Therefore we know that Thomas and his son Joseph arrived at Cape Cod aboard the ship Mayflower and on 11 November 1620 according to their calendar, or 21 November on ours, Thomas was one of forty-one signers of the Mayflower Compact. Thomas did not live through the rigorous winter which carried off half the group but young Joseph, like so many of the children, did survive.
The proof summary required to prove John Anthony’s parents were Seth Anthony and Charity Haskins.
Here is the complete lineage leading Thomas Rogers to my grandmother, Coryl Alice Gray
Thomas Rogers (abt 1571-1621) m. Elizabeth
John Rogers (1606-1691) m. Anna Churchman (1618-1673)
Abigail Rogers (1641-1727) m. John Richmond (1665-1741)
Edward Richmond (1665-1741) m. Mercy (1678-1711)
Edward Richmond Jr. (1795-1771) m. Elizabeth R. Deane (1694-1782)
Elizabeth Richmond (1716-1806) m. Abiel Haskins (1714-1788)
Charity Haskins (1754-1849) m. Seth Anthony (abt 1750-1849)
John Anthony (1780-1857) m. Abigail Soule (1782-1859)
Sarah Jane Anthony (1814-1883) m. James Aplington (1812-1867)
Catharine Ann Aplington (1833-1915) m. Isaac Hall (1816-1886)
Lillie Charlotte Hall (1868-1951) m. John Fremont Davis (1860-1891)
Alice Davis (1886-1977) m. Lewis Royden Gray (1881-1945)
Coryl Alice Gray (1909-1979) m. James Frederick Iburg (1905-1976)