> The correct listing should be Thomas Mathew Rogers

Note that I haved edited this post to provide additional information.

"Thomas Mathew Rogers" is also incorrect. He was simply Thomas Rogers. Englishmen in the 17th century did not have middle names, except for some cases involving the nobility. Middle names did not begin to appear in what began as British North America until the early 18th century - three examples from men born in the 1730s are Francis Lightfoot Lee, Richard Henry Lee, and Robert Treat Paine, all signers of the Declaration of Independence. The Lees were from Virginia, and Paine from Massachusetts, and the signatures of all three on the Declaration include their middle names. Middle names did not become common in the US until the early 19th century, and the first mention of them in print in the US of which I am aware is in Harvardiana, a literary periodical run by Harvard grad students. The use is in vol. 2, p. 23, at the bottom of that page, and that volume is online at:

http://books.google.com/books?id=t4AfAAAAYAAJ&printsec=f...

Watch for line wrap in that long URL.

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