Timothy Rogers, one of the earliest settlers in "Duffins Creek", visited Upper Canada in 1800. Born in Connecticut in 1756, he had made his home in Vermont.
The purpose of his visit to Upper Canada was to arrange for settlement of a number of Quaker families, each to be given a settlement lot of two hundred acres, for a total of eight thousand acres.
He returned in 1801 with his wife Sarah and their children, bringing the forty other families. The newcomers settled in and around what is now Newmarket. In 1807 Timothy and Sarah moved with their children to Duffin's Creek, taking twenty other families with them. To accommodate his new settlement, Rogers bought eight hundred acres at ten shillings per acre.
From the southeast corner of his property Rogers gave land for a Quaker meeting house and a cemetery. A large wooden meeting house was built. The cemetery space on the east side of Mill Street was divided between a Quaker burial ground and a cemetery for non-Quakers.
The brick Meeting House on the west side of Mill Street was built in 1867 to accommodate the first yearly meeting of The Society of Friends. It was damaged by fire in 1908, but was repaired and kept in use until 1943, when it was sold to the Masonic Lodge.
The Friends burial ground is still maintained by the Society of Friends and is identified by the inscription FRIENDS CEMETERY on its iron gates.
The first mill in the new settlement was built in 1810 by Timothy Rogers on the banks of Duffin's Creek. Duffin's Creek traversed Rogers' property, providing the necessary water power for a grist mill and saw mill. The effect of the mill on the spawning grounds for salmon is reported in THE VILLAGE OF PICKERING 1800-1970:
When Rogers came to Pickering the lake salmon came up the river by the thousands, but the mill dams, of which his was the first, prevented them from reaching their spawning grounds. By the time of his death in 1827 the salmon had practically disappeared.4
The rigours of pioneer life and of raising a large family took their toll on Sarah Rogers, who died in 1812. She and Timothy had fifteen children, of whom seven died during the cholera epidemic of 1810. Timothy remarried and had five more children, bringing the total to twenty.
Personal tragedy did not deter Timothy Rogers from his leadership role in the Quaker community. Until his death in 1827, at age seventy, he remained an influential figure in the development of Duffin's Creek. The journals of this remarkable man provide a firsthand account of early Quaker settlement in the region. It seems that some of his descendants inherited his organizational and leadership skills. Elias Rogers founded and operated the Elias Rogers Coal Company of Toronto and in the 1990s Ted Rogers, President and CEO of Rogers Communications, dominates the communications industry in Canada.
From "The Pickering Story" --Wm. A. McKay author
The purpose of his visit to Upper Canada was to arrange for settlement of a number of Quaker families, each to be given a settlement lot of two hundred acres, for a total of eight thousand acres.
He returned in 1801 with his wife Sarah and their children, bringing the forty other families. The newcomers settled in and around what is now Newmarket. In 1807 Timothy and Sarah moved with their children to Duffin's Creek, taking twenty other families with them. To accommodate his new settlement, Rogers bought eight hundred acres at ten shillings per acre.
From the southeast corner of his property Rogers gave land for a Quaker meeting house and a cemetery. A large wooden meeting house was built. The cemetery space on the east side of Mill Street was divided between a Quaker burial ground and a cemetery for non-Quakers.
The brick Meeting House on the west side of Mill Street was built in 1867 to accommodate the first yearly meeting of The Society of Friends. It was damaged by fire in 1908, but was repaired and kept in use until 1943, when it was sold to the Masonic Lodge.
The Friends burial ground is still maintained by the Society of Friends and is identified by the inscription FRIENDS CEMETERY on its iron gates.
The first mill in the new settlement was built in 1810 by Timothy Rogers on the banks of Duffin's Creek. Duffin's Creek traversed Rogers' property, providing the necessary water power for a grist mill and saw mill. The effect of the mill on the spawning grounds for salmon is reported in THE VILLAGE OF PICKERING 1800-1970:
When Rogers came to Pickering the lake salmon came up the river by the thousands, but the mill dams, of which his was the first, prevented them from reaching their spawning grounds. By the time of his death in 1827 the salmon had practically disappeared.4
The rigours of pioneer life and of raising a large family took their toll on Sarah Rogers, who died in 1812. She and Timothy had fifteen children, of whom seven died during the cholera epidemic of 1810. Timothy remarried and had five more children, bringing the total to twenty.
Personal tragedy did not deter Timothy Rogers from his leadership role in the Quaker community. Until his death in 1827, at age seventy, he remained an influential figure in the development of Duffin's Creek. The journals of this remarkable man provide a firsthand account of early Quaker settlement in the region. It seems that some of his descendants inherited his organizational and leadership skills. Elias Rogers founded and operated the Elias Rogers Coal Company of Toronto and in the 1990s Ted Rogers, President and CEO of Rogers Communications, dominates the communications industry in Canada.
From "The Pickering Story" --Wm. A. McKay author
Timothy Rogers, one of the earliest settlers in "Duffins Creek", visited Upper Canada in 1800. Born in Connecticut in 1756, he had made his home in Vermont.
The purpose of his visit to Upper Canada was to arrange for settlement of a number of Quaker families, each to be given a settlement lot of two hundred acres, for a total of eight thousand acres.
He returned in 1801 with his wife Sarah and their children, bringing the forty other families. The newcomers settled in and around what is now Newmarket. In 1807 Timothy and Sarah moved with their children to Duffin's Creek, taking twenty other families with them. To accommodate his new settlement, Rogers bought eight hundred acres at ten shillings per acre.
From the southeast corner of his property Rogers gave land for a Quaker meeting house and a cemetery. A large wooden meeting house was built. The cemetery space on the east side of Mill Street was divided between a Quaker burial ground and a cemetery for non-Quakers.
The brick Meeting House on the west side of Mill Street was built in 1867 to accommodate the first yearly meeting of The Society of Friends. It was damaged by fire in 1908, but was repaired and kept in use until 1943, when it was sold to the Masonic Lodge.
The Friends burial ground is still maintained by the Society of Friends and is identified by the inscription FRIENDS CEMETERY on its iron gates.
The first mill in the new settlement was built in 1810 by Timothy Rogers on the banks of Duffin's Creek. Duffin's Creek traversed Rogers' property, providing the necessary water power for a grist mill and saw mill. The effect of the mill on the spawning grounds for salmon is reported in THE VILLAGE OF PICKERING 1800-1970:
When Rogers came to Pickering the lake salmon came up the river by the thousands, but the mill dams, of which his was the first, prevented them from reaching their spawning grounds. By the time of his death in 1827 the salmon had practically disappeared.4
The rigours of pioneer life and of raising a large family took their toll on Sarah Rogers, who died in 1812. She and Timothy had fifteen children, of whom seven died during the cholera epidemic of 1810. Timothy remarried and had five more children, bringing the total to twenty.
Personal tragedy did not deter Timothy Rogers from his leadership role in the Quaker community. Until his death in 1827, at age seventy, he remained an influential figure in the development of Duffin's Creek. The journals of this remarkable man provide a firsthand account of early Quaker settlement in the region. It seems that some of his descendants inherited his organizational and leadership skills. Elias Rogers founded and operated the Elias Rogers Coal Company of Toronto and in the 1990s Ted Rogers, President and CEO of Rogers Communications, dominates the communications industry in Canada.
From "The Pickering Story" --Wm. A. McKay author
The purpose of his visit to Upper Canada was to arrange for settlement of a number of Quaker families, each to be given a settlement lot of two hundred acres, for a total of eight thousand acres.
He returned in 1801 with his wife Sarah and their children, bringing the forty other families. The newcomers settled in and around what is now Newmarket. In 1807 Timothy and Sarah moved with their children to Duffin's Creek, taking twenty other families with them. To accommodate his new settlement, Rogers bought eight hundred acres at ten shillings per acre.
From the southeast corner of his property Rogers gave land for a Quaker meeting house and a cemetery. A large wooden meeting house was built. The cemetery space on the east side of Mill Street was divided between a Quaker burial ground and a cemetery for non-Quakers.
The brick Meeting House on the west side of Mill Street was built in 1867 to accommodate the first yearly meeting of The Society of Friends. It was damaged by fire in 1908, but was repaired and kept in use until 1943, when it was sold to the Masonic Lodge.
The Friends burial ground is still maintained by the Society of Friends and is identified by the inscription FRIENDS CEMETERY on its iron gates.
The first mill in the new settlement was built in 1810 by Timothy Rogers on the banks of Duffin's Creek. Duffin's Creek traversed Rogers' property, providing the necessary water power for a grist mill and saw mill. The effect of the mill on the spawning grounds for salmon is reported in THE VILLAGE OF PICKERING 1800-1970:
When Rogers came to Pickering the lake salmon came up the river by the thousands, but the mill dams, of which his was the first, prevented them from reaching their spawning grounds. By the time of his death in 1827 the salmon had practically disappeared.4
The rigours of pioneer life and of raising a large family took their toll on Sarah Rogers, who died in 1812. She and Timothy had fifteen children, of whom seven died during the cholera epidemic of 1810. Timothy remarried and had five more children, bringing the total to twenty.
Personal tragedy did not deter Timothy Rogers from his leadership role in the Quaker community. Until his death in 1827, at age seventy, he remained an influential figure in the development of Duffin's Creek. The journals of this remarkable man provide a firsthand account of early Quaker settlement in the region. It seems that some of his descendants inherited his organizational and leadership skills. Elias Rogers founded and operated the Elias Rogers Coal Company of Toronto and in the 1990s Ted Rogers, President and CEO of Rogers Communications, dominates the communications industry in Canada.
From "The Pickering Story" --Wm. A. McKay author
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