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Mary Cochrane Rogers

b. 1869

A teacher and local historian, she wrote closely researched books that bring early New England people and places to life. Her work often centered on family and regional history, especially Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and the story of Major Robert Rogers.

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Rogers' Rock, Lake George, March 13, 1758: A Battle Fought on Snow Shoes

Rogers' Rock, Lake George, March 13, 1758: A Battle Fought on Snow Shoes

by Mary Cochrane Rogers

About the author

Mary Cochrane Rogers was born in 1869 and is documented in library and archive records as a writer, teacher, and historian. Surviving catalog and archival descriptions connect her with Boston and with research on New Hampshire history, especially Portsmouth and families linked to her own background.

Her best-known works include Glimpses of an Old Social Capital (Portsmouth, New Hampshire), published in the 1920s, and Rogers' Rock, Lake George, March 13, 1758: A Battle Fought on Snow Shoes. Archive descriptions say her papers include research and drafts about her great-great-grandfather Major Robert Rogers and about Reverend Arthur Browne, showing how much of her writing grew out of careful family and historical investigation.

Rogers's books have the feel of someone preserving a past she knew mattered. Rather than writing broad national history, she focused on vivid local stories, old documents, and inherited memory—work that still appeals to readers interested in New England, genealogy, and early American history.