Early Life
Robert Rogers was born to James and Mary McFatridge Rogers on 7 November 1731, in Methuen, a small town in northeastern Massachusetts. At that time, the town served as a staging point for Ulster-Scots settlers bound for the untamed wilderness of New Hampshire.
In 1739, when Rogers was eight years old, his family relocated to the Great Meadow district of New Hampshire near present-day Concord, where James, an Irish immigrant, founded a settlement on 2,190 acres (8.9 km2) of land, which he called Munterloney after a hilly place in Derry, Ireland. Rogers referred to this childhood residence as "Mountalona". It was later renamed Dunbarton, New Hampshire.
In 1740 the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748) broke out in Europe and in 1744 the war spread to North America where it was known as King George's War (1744–1748). During Rogers' youth (1746) he saw service in the New Hampshire militia as a private in Captain Daniel Ladd's Scouting Company and in 1747, also as a private, Ebenezer Eastman's Scouting Company both times guarding the New Hampshire frontier.
In 1754 Rogers became involved with a gang of counterfeiters. He was indicted but the case was never brought to trial.
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