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Note: e same slaveowner as his wife, EDIE/EDITH ROGERS. A family story as related to me by NAOMI RODGERS, who was told this by her father, JOSEPH/JOE RODGERS, is that EDIE's father/slaveowner decided to marry off his daughter to the "darkest" looking slave on the plantation, and that apparently was NATHANIEL. I have yet to discover who was their slaveowner, but I am still researching that.
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3/20/2011
I've found deeds that indicate that SIMON GRAY JEFFREYS' daughter was NARCISSA JEFFREYS, who married SION ROGERS in Wake Co. on March 20, 1824; the deeds show that SIMON G. was starting to give his children gifts of slaves in the 1840s. In 1870, SION ROGERS, b. 1801, d.June 1860, was dead, but NARCISSA ROGERS, b. 1805, was head of household only a few doors from NATHANIEL ROGERS and his family. A petition filed by NARCISSA states that her husband died intestate in June 1860, but that the administration of his estate was not granted until February 1868, which means that there won't be any Slave records included in his Estate File. I now believe that NATHANIEL was probably a former slave of SION ROGERS, it is known that SIMON G. married his slave daughter, EDIE, off to NATHANIEL, and it makes sense that it would have been a slave belonging to someone in his family.
1870 Wake County, North Carolina, St. Matthews, Forestville, Image 21, #168/168:
NARCISSA ROGERS - 65 -F -W - KEEPING HOUSE - $2000 - $300 - NC
J. R. ROGERS - 25 - M - W - FARMER - $6000 - $2000 - NC
R. A. HODGE - 25 - M - W - FARMER - $100 - NC
Note: NATHANIEL ROGERS was born a slave in Wake County, North Carolina, apparently belonging to th
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