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Timothy Rogers, the great Quaker colonist and preacher, was responsible for bringing twenty families of "Friends", including several non-Quakers, to Pickering between the years 1801-1810. Later he encouraged the Irish Quaker settlement. These people settled on the south east portion of the Township lakefront. Rogers purchased and resold over a thousand acres of land. He, his wife Sarah White, and their fifteen children, came to Upper Canada in 1801, and settled New Market. In 1807, he removed most of his family to Pickering—several sons with their families remained on Yonge Street. Sarah died tragically and was buried in Pickering in 1812. In 1813, Timothy Rogers remarried and acquired five more children, bringing the total number to twenty. Descendants of Timothy's daughter, Mary, and Asa Rogers, his son-in-law of the same name, continued to live in this district until after the death of Clarkson Rogers, in the 1940's.. Mary's son, Elias, settled on Yonge Street and his descendants have been prominent in Ontario business circles for the past hundred years. Elias' son, also named Elias, was director of Pickering College. Miss Elizabeth Richardson, recalls the old Rogers house, south of the Quaker Meeting House in what is now Morley Park. Timothy never recovered his fortune, spent in colonizing, but his grandson, Wing, settled a beautiful farm in the Kinsale area, and his grandchildren, in both Pickering and Newmarket, pioneered the Imperial Oil Co. development in Canada, and the Elias Rogers Coal Company. Mr. Guy Rogers, lent us the invaluable "Diary", portions of which deals with the early settlement in Pickering. Unfortunately, all early pictures of the family were lost in the fire which destroyed the old homestead in Newmarket. Timothy Rogers - 1756-1827; Mary Rogers - 1782-1809 (died of epidemic in Pickering); Elias Rogers - 1806-1850. (Description of picture) Elias Rogers, son of Elias, of Toronto, lent by Mr. Guy Rogers, of Toronto. Taken circa 1900. Elias was a Quaker and director of Pickering College. He was internationally known in Quaker philanthropic circles.