Correspondence and other writings from the first generation of Rodger(s) in the United States: Rev. John Rodger and his first and second wives (Elizabeth Blackwood, 1746-1778; and Isabel Ireland, d. 1822, respectively), and correspondence and other writings from his ten children. Until the 1830s, the Rodgers family was living in Rockbridge County, Virginia, then many of them moved to Missouri, and then on to Warren County, Illinois. Much of the correspondence and writing is from Andrew Rodgers, Sr. (1789-1849) who wrote essays and letters on various topics, such as roles of women, church financing, infant baptism, reformed churches, slavery, suffrage, capital punishment, and free trade.

Very notable in this series are letters to Jemima Hall from Washington and L.F. Hall, and from Venus McCormick. Jemima Hall was born a slave around 1810 in Virginia. She was owned by the Davidson family and given to Aleri and Mary Davidson Rodgers when they moved to Missouri in 1822. The Rodgers subsequently moved to Warren County, Illinois, in 1836, and took Jemima Hall (then freed) with them. The letters to Jemima are from another slave, Venus McCormick (who was owned by Robert McCormick in Virginia but purchased by Aniel Rodgers and given her freedom in 1833 in Missouri), and from Jemima's husband Washington Hall, who at the time of his writing was still owned by L.F. Hall. In the letters Washington and L.F. both try to persuade Jemima to move back to Missouri to be with Washington, her husband (although L.F. was unwilling to free Washington.)