12. “An Impartial Relation of an Open and Publick Dispute Agreed Between Gurdon Saltonstall, Minister of the Town of New London, and John Rogers of the Same Place. With the Circumstances leading thereto, and the Consequences thereof. As also a relation of the said Gurton Saltonstall’s securing a Judgment of Court of Six Hundred Pounds and Cost of Court against said John Rogers, for saying the said Saltonstall went to wave, shun or shift the said Dispute agreed upon. The Truth of which waving, shunning or shifting is here also evidently demonstrated. By John Rogers. Printed for the Author in the year 1701. sm. 4to. pp. (6) 15.”

Probably printed at New York by William Bradford, or at Philadelphia by Reynier Jansen. Title from Hildeburn’s Issues of the Press in Pennsylvania. (Sabin.)

13. “Treatise on Divorce.” Probably written about 1700. A copy owned by H. Eugene Bolles.

1. That the “Book” which John Rogers, 2d, was accused by the General Court of publishing and selling “up and down the Colony,” while his father was in prison, was written by himself, not by his father, is probable. Its title or its contents are alike unknown to us, not having as yet been discovered in any bibliographic work, by which we judge that no copy or title is extant.

2. In Part I., Chapter I., has been seen the account of the scourging inflicted upon John Rogers, 2d, John Bolles, and their companions on occasion of the journey to the meeting at Lebanon in 1725; also the Proclamation which this punishment called forth from Deputy Governor Jenks of Rhode Island. Mr. J. Backus, the justice who was instrumental in securing the enactment of this cruelty, made a reply to Governor Jenks in a pamphlet of thirty-two pages, in which, in a lame and prevaricating manner, he endeavored to justify this outrage. Upon this, John Rogers, 2d, issued a pamphlet, bound with the pamphlet of J. Backus, stating the exact circumstances of the case as opposed to the incorrect statements of the justice, and entitled “A Reply to J. Backus, Esq. (as he calls himself), 1726.” A copy of a book containing the Reply of J. Backus to Governor Jenks and the Reply of J. Bolles to this Reply of J. Backus is owned by H. Eugene Bolles.

3. “Answer To A Book lately written by Peter Pratt, entitled ‘The Prey taken from the Strong,’ Wherein by Mocks and Scoffs, together with a great number of positive Falsehoods, the Author has greatly abused John Rogers, late of New London, deceased, since his death. By John Rogers. Printed in New York for the Author, 1726, and sold at his house in New London. 8 vo. pp. (2) XXII.” Probably printed by William Bradford. A copy owned by Connecticut Historical Society in their Library at Hartford. A copy also owned by H. Eugene Bolles.

4. “An Answer to a Pamphlet (by Cotton Mather) entitled ‘A Monitory Letter about the Maintenance of An Able and Faithful Ministry.’ By John Rogers. New York. 1726.” (Printed by William Bradford, supposedly). A copy of this book is in Yale College Library.

A copy of each of the following books, with exception of the eighth, is owned by H. Eugene Bolles of Boston.

1. “Application to the General Court holden in New Haven—1728.” A portion of the ending sentence in above pamphlet is as follows:—

“But we, on our parts, have had the witness of a good conscience towards God in all our sufferings and loss of all these things” (having recounted their persecutions) “and do make it our care to live inoffensively towards all men, except in the case of Daniel, Chap. 6, verse 5.”

2. “Good News from a Far Country.” This is an argument to prove that the Civil Government “have no authority from God to judge in cases of Conscience.”

3. “Answer to An Election Sermon preached by Nathaniel Eels.”

The last two published in one volume at Newport, 1749.

4. “To Worship God in Spirit and In Truth.”

An Answer to same was published by Jacob Johnson (pastor of a church in Groton, Conn.).

5. “Reply to Jacob Johnson, by John Bolles.”

All three in Boston Library, bound together.

6. “A Message to the General Court in Boston, 1754.”

Copy in Boston Library.

7. A tract entitled, “True Liberty of Conscience is in Bondage to no Flesh.”

8. “Persecutions in Boston and Connecticut Governments. Taken out of Authors. Whereby it may be seen that a people may be deceived under the highest conceit of religion, and thinking they are worshipping God, when indeed they are worshipping the dragon and persecuting the children of God that worship Him in spirit and in truth. By John Bolles, New London. Printed for the author, 1758.” A copy of this tract is owned by Mrs. Reed Watson of East Windsor, Conn.

9. “Answer to A Book entitled ‘The Christian Sabbath,’ by Mather Byles, 1759.”

A copy of above work in Boston Library names John Bolles as author. A copy of the same work in the New London Library is (in its Introduction) distinctly ascribed to Joseph Bolles, son of John Bolles. It was probably a joint work of father and son.

“Bolles (J.) and Waterhouse (John) Concerning the Christian Sabbath, also some Remarks upon a book written by Ebenezer Frothingham. Printed for Joseph Bolles, 1757.” Title from Brinley Catalogue. Know not if extant.

“A Looking Glass for the Presbyterians of New London.” By John Rogers, 3d. Providence, 1767. 8vo. See quotations in Appendix. The style of this work is bright, vigorous and concise, comparing well with the other Rogerene writings, not one of which is of an inferior order.