John Rogers (Albemarle County, Virginia)
John Rogers was an overseer of three plantations, including Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. He then owned and operated the East Belmont plantation. Rogers was a co-founder of the Albemarle Agricultural Society, and was known for his revolutionary agricultural reforms. His influence and knowledge-gathering was centered among planters in Albemarle County, as well as across the country and in Europe. Early years John Rogers was the son of Mary Trice and Byrd Rogers, who were married in King and Queen County, Virginia. They had two other sons, Philip and Byrd. His father married twice, the second time to Martha Trice, his first wife's sister. Martha Trice and Byrd had the following children: Lewis, Elizabeth, Lucy, Anne, and George. Byrd was a lieutenant of the Cincinnati militia and held that rank during the American Revolutionary War. Byrd's siblings were George, Giles, and Ann, who married George Clark and was the mother of George Rogers Clark. John and Byrd descended from Giles Ro ...
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Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ...
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