Transcribers' Note: This e-book contains the text of Ponteach, extracted from Representative Plays by American Dramatists: Vol 1, 1765-1819. Comments and background to all the plays, and links to the other plays are available here. For your convenience, the transcribers have provided the following links: Major Robert Rogers. Dramatis Personæ ACT I. ACT II. ACT III. ACT IV. ACT V. Spelling as in the original has been preserved. [Pg 109] [Pg 109] PONTEACH By Robert Rogers Robert Rogers [Pg 110] [Pg 110] Major Robert Rogers Major Robert Rogers [Pg 111] [Pg 111] MAJOR ROBERT ROGERS (1727-1795) Robert Rogers, a soldier of fortune, is the Davy Crockett of Colonial times. Born at Dumbarton, New Hampshire, on November 17th (some authorities say 1730, another 1731, while the Dictionary of National Biography says 1727), he was the son of James Rogers, a farmer living in a frontier cabin at Methuen, in upper Massachusetts. Robert's boyhood was spent in an atmosphere characteristic of pioneer life. He had scarcely passed his fifteenth year (Nevins claims in
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