He was influenced by the Seventh Day Baptists and the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and opposed the established Puritan church.
One such group settled in what is now the Landing section of Roxbury Township, New Jersey near Lake Rogerine, known as Mountain Pond in about 1700.
Another, smaller group of Rogerenes in about 1734 settled on the eastern side of Schooley's Mountain near present-day Hackettstown, New Jersey.
They continued their anti-war stance by sponsoring peace rallies at an open-air site near Mystic that by the 1880s attracted thousands of attendees.
Because their progressive attitudes were increasingly mirrored in American society as it evolved from the 19th century into the 20th, the Rogerenes gradually disappeared as a distinct social and religious group.