In 1753 was appointed a clerk of the Chancery. In 1761 he was commissioned a justice and judge, and later that year a clerk on the Essex County Court. He was Speaker of the New Jersey Assembly and was one of three men from the colony appointed as a delegate to the Stamp Act Congress in New York in 1765. The Congress settled upon fourteen resolutions, which they submitted to King George III. Ogden (and Timothy Ruggles of Massachusetts) did not sign the document because they believed it should first be circulated among, and approved by, the individual colonial assemblies. Ogden was burned in effigy by the people of New Jersey, and resigned his seat in the Assembly on November 27, 1765. After the war began he was a chairman of the Elizabethtown Committee of Safety.
He and his wife had 13 children, 8 of them still born.
His tombstone inscription, according to "The Ogden Family in America" (1907) reads: "In public life both in Church and State he filled many important offices with ability and integrity. In his private business he was upright, eminently useful, active and diligent. He was temperate and humane. A friend to the poor, hospitable and generous. A most faithful, tender and indulgent husband and parent, and above all, his life and conversation from his youth was becoming a professor of religion and a follower of the blessed Jesus."
Contributed by Dan Silva.
He and his wife had 13 children, 8 of them still born.
His tombstone inscription, according to "The Ogden Family in America" (1907) reads: "In public life both in Church and State he filled many important offices with ability and integrity. In his private business he was upright, eminently useful, active and diligent. He was temperate and humane. A friend to the poor, hospitable and generous. A most faithful, tender and indulgent husband and parent, and above all, his life and conversation from his youth was becoming a professor of religion and a follower of the blessed Jesus."
Contributed by Dan Silva.
In 1753 was appointed a clerk of the Chancery. In 1761 he was commissioned a justice and judge, and later that year a clerk on the Essex County Court. He was Speaker of the New Jersey Assembly and was one of three men from the colony appointed as a delegate to the Stamp Act Congress in New York in 1765. The Congress settled upon fourteen resolutions, which they submitted to King George III. Ogden (and Timothy Ruggles of Massachusetts) did not sign the document because they believed it should first be circulated among, and approved by, the individual colonial assemblies. Ogden was burned in effigy by the people of New Jersey, and resigned his seat in the Assembly on November 27, 1765. After the war began he was a chairman of the Elizabethtown Committee of Safety.
He and his wife had 13 children, 8 of them still born.
His tombstone inscription, according to "The Ogden Family in America" (1907) reads: "In public life both in Church and State he filled many important offices with ability and integrity. In his private business he was upright, eminently useful, active and diligent. He was temperate and humane. A friend to the poor, hospitable and generous. A most faithful, tender and indulgent husband and parent, and above all, his life and conversation from his youth was becoming a professor of religion and a follower of the blessed Jesus."
Contributed by Dan Silva.
He and his wife had 13 children, 8 of them still born.
His tombstone inscription, according to "The Ogden Family in America" (1907) reads: "In public life both in Church and State he filled many important offices with ability and integrity. In his private business he was upright, eminently useful, active and diligent. He was temperate and humane. A friend to the poor, hospitable and generous. A most faithful, tender and indulgent husband and parent, and above all, his life and conversation from his youth was becoming a professor of religion and a follower of the blessed Jesus."
Contributed by Dan Silva.
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