Into the frontier ten miles from the nearest settlement, James Jacob Rogers and Mary McPhedren Rogers from Londonderry, Ireland relocated their family of ten children in the Merrimack River Valley, near what would be called Dunbarton, New Hampshire. Only a wilderness, in a thick dark forest of white pines and inhabited by wild game, my 5th great grandparents, carved out a home. And then tragedy after tragedy. Listen to my tale of what happened in the Great Meadow, on Walnut Hill.
