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Rogers was a very very interesting character from that era.
In his youth accused and if I remember this right convicted of counterfeiting the local New Hampshire currency. Again if I remember this right ran off to the frontier to escape jail. (In early colonial New Hampshire running off to the frontier might mean going to the other side of town if not across the street!) Joined the militia where ever he settled down and started his famous military career. He was always on the look out for money making opportunities, acquiring land, etc. but so were a lot of people in those days. He also had a huge drinking problem which the show does highlight. He was always looked down on by other British officers though some did view him as a military tactical genius in the context of the colonial fronteir. Again the show does a good job of portraying that. What a lot of people don’t know was in the beginning Rogers did offer his services to the American cause. Many including Washington were anxious to sign him up. However his “offer” was always more in a “What’s in it for me context? Then a patriotic context.” Washington did interview him and he showed up for the interview as an old obnoxious drunk! (I missed the first two seasons of Turn. Did they show Rogers’ overtures to the Patriot side or the Washington interview?) So Washington dismissed him as useless and washed up, anyway the Patriot side had some of the Ranger’s senior officers so why gambled on a drunken potential troublemaker. (Note Washington was also aware of Rogers’ contact with the British.) However from what I can remember reading Rogers was never able to replicate the success he had in the French and Indian War as a Tory ranger in the Revolutionary War. (Turn shows him being far more effective then I remember reading!) Again if I remember this right he kind of faded away over time into drunken obscurity.