A Merchant of New York City, his residence fronting the Battery, near what is now the corner of White Hall and South streets, where all his children were born. He supplied the stores in his native town, Hamburg, NJ with goods, and dealt with the iron men. With others, he obtained a grant of land in Florida from the Spanish, and spent large sums of money upon it, which was lost, as the Government refused to recognize the Spanish grant after the purchase by the United States.
married 1800 Mary Odgen
They had 7 children - Daniel, Sarah P., Sydney Phoenix, Mary Ogden, Robert Ogden, Elizabeth Ogden, Henrietta Brown
ref: The Ogden family in America by William Ogden Wheeler 1907.
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A Merchant of New York City, his residence fronting the Battery, near what is now the corner of White Hall and South streets, where all his children were born. He supplied the stores in his native town, Hamburg, NJ with goods, and dealt with the iron men. With others, he obtained a grant of land in Florida from the Spanish, and spent large sums of money upon it, which was lost, as the Government refused to recognize the Spanish grant after the purchase by the United States.
married 1800 Mary Odgen
They had 7 children - Daniel, Sarah P., Sydney Phoenix, Mary Ogden, Robert Ogden, Elizabeth Ogden, Henrietta Brown
ref: The Ogden family in America by William Ogden Wheeler 1907.
Contributed by BluMoKitty (#46830270).
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58y, "A native of this place-a merchant of New York. Benevolence, energy, and enterprize, characterized his life. After various fluctuations of fortune, He found of a truth, "Nothing can we call our own but death"
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