[ROGERS] ROGERS, RANGER AND LOYALIST 37 
My great-great-grandfather was succeeded in his position in the 
settlement by his son, David McGregor Rogers, my great-grandfather, 
who, for twenty-four years, represented his district in the early Houses 
of Assembly of Upper Canada. 
A recently recovered copy of the journal of the House of Assembly 
for 1801, which had been lost at the sacking of York—now Toronto— 
in 1812, records how, after the House had met and the members sub- 
scribed the oath, a message was delivered by the Gentleman Usher of 
the Black Rod. A brief and formal speech by His Excellency followed. 
Then : 
“David M. Rogers, Esquire, Knight, representing the Counties of 
Hastings and Northumberland, stood up, and addressing himself to the 
clerk (who, standing up, pointed to him and then sat down), pro- 
posed to the House, for their Speaker, the Honourable D. W. Smith, 
Esquire, in which motion he was seconded by the Hon. Henry Allcock, 
Esquire, one of the judges of the Court of King’s Bench, Knight, repre- 
senting the counties of Durham, Simcoe and the East Riding of York.” 
The motion was carried, the new Speaker expressing his “ gratitude for 
the honour” and “thereupon he sat down in the chair.” The House 
then adjourned. 
David McGregor Rogers seems to have been a man of considerable 
force of character, uniting as he did the blood of his soldier-father with 
that of the Highland outlaws, which he owed to his mother whose 
name he bore as part of his own. 
On one occasion he is said to have slain a wolf, the marauding 
tyrant of the district, with his oaken walking-stick. 
As a lad he had taken part in the migration; and upon his return 
to St. Johns years afterwards, he was invested with the dignity of an 
honorary chieftainship by the local Indians. 
He died at Grafton, Ont., in 1824, while still a member of the 
House of Assembly. 
In the foregoing attempt to tender a small act of piety to the 
memory of my great-great-grandfather and of justice to that of his 
gifted but erratic brother, I trust that I have not too far trespassed upon 
your forbearance. 
In the recrudescence of the spirit of imperial expansion with which 
we are familiar to-day, it is a not unsatisfactory reflection for us, the 

death. This places it in 1784. The writer of the article upon the life of Robert 
Rogers in the ‘ Dictionary of National Biography ”—London, 1897—places it in 1800 
but in this he has followed Hough. who, in his turn. evidently followed Sabine in 
the matter. There is no trace of his having lived after 1784, and everything, includ- 
ing the story of his family, points to his having died soon after his return from 
Halifax. 
