Hezekiah Rogers

Hezekiah Rogers (1753 – September 4, 1811) was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk in the sessions of May 1786, and October 1787.

Rogers and Samuel Silliman were chosen as delegates to meet in a convention at Hartford, the following January to ratify the United States Constitution.

In June 1789, Jesse Lee, a founder of the Methodist Church, came to Norwalk to preach his first sermon in Connecticut.

When Lee arrived, Hezekiah was not at home, and his wife hesitated to open the house to a public meeting.

Finally, Lee assembled his audience under an apple tree by the roadside and preached his sermon from the text "Ye must be born again."