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(VI) Nathan,
second son of Eliakim (2) and Phebe (Bouton)
Warren, was born in Norwalk, Connecticut,
May 11, 1777, died at Troy, New York, August
13, 1834. He was of the firm of Esaias
Warren & Company, Troy, 1798, continuing
until March 1, 1827. He was one of the
proprietors of the "Earthern Conduit
Company", formed to "supply the inhabitants
with water". E was one of the first board
of mangers of the Troy Savings Bank in
1823. He was an original incorporator of
the Troy Steamboat Company in 1825,
vestryman of St. Paul's Church, 1827, and in
the same year erected the "Mansion House",
at the corner of Second and Albany Streets,
Troy. He was an incorporator of the Troy &
Bennington Turnpike Company, in 1827, and an
incorporator and one of the first directors
of the Rensselaer & Saratoga Railroad
Company in 1832. He married, April 24,
1808, mary, daughter of Nathan and Abigail (Burlock)
Bouton, born April 21, 1789, died February
8, 1859, a descendant of John Bouton, the
Huguenot. She continued the Saturday Sewing
class founded by Mrs. Phebe (Bouton) Warren,
her mother-in-law, and after the death of
the latter, continued it into a day school.
After she had been left a widow Mrs. Warren
gave her time almost entirely to church and
philosophic work. She was the founder and
donor of the "Church of the Holy Cross",
Troy, in 1844, "A house of prayer for all
people, without money and without price".
The girls' day school was incorporated by
act of Legislature, March 19, 1846. By it
Mary Warren, the founder, the Rev. John
Ireland Ticker, and Amos S. Perry, became a
corporate body, by name "The Warren Free
Institute", for "the purpose of maintaining
and conducting a free school", December 7,
1849, the Rev. John Ireland Tucker was
ordained to the priesthood and became the
first rector of the Church of the Holy
Cross, April 5, 1849. The name of the
Warren Free Institute was changed by act of
legislature to "The Mary Warren Free
Institute of the City of Troy". In 1889 the
church was handsomely improved, Dr. Nathan
B., Stephen E., and George henry Warren
contributing the necessary funds. The
enlarged chancel was dedicated December 24,
1889, on which occasion the choirmen of the
church wore for the first time an
ecclesiastical habit. This church was one of
the earliest of the free churches of the
Episcopal communion built in the United
States. In it was first introduced the
choral service, and mainly through the
liberality of Dr. Nathan B. Warren. The
girls who composed the choir were dressed in
a uniform of long scarlet cloaks and black
hats. The children of Mary (Bouton) Warren
were the donors of the organ; the chime of
bells, and the richly colored windows.
Others of the family contributed the
beautiful brass lectern, a fac-simile of the
one in Exeter Cathedral, England, and the
brass corona. A stone tablet set in the
west wall of the ante-chapel reads: "This
church, free to all people, was founded by
Mary, widow of Nathan Warren, S. D.,
MDCCCVLIV. The ante-chapel contributed by
the founder was built by her children as a
memorial to their venerable mother, who on
the XIII day of February, A. d. MDCCCLIX in
the LXX year of her age entered into that
rest which remains for the people of God".
The children
of Nathan and Mary (Bouton) Warren are: 1.
Harriet Louise, married Captain Edmund
Shriver, who rose to the rank of General,
Untied States Army in the Civil War; she was
thrown from a sleigh,. January 15, 1859, and
instantly killed. 2. Nathan Bouton, Mus.
Dir., a musical composer of note and author
of numerous anthems; his literary work is
also of a high order; he never married. 3.
Stephen Eliakim, graduate of Trinity
College, unmarried. 4. George Henry,
mentioned below.
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(VII) George
Henry, son of Nathan and Mary (Bouton)
Warren, was born in Troy, New York, November
18, 1823. He was a graduate of Union
College, and a member of the New York State
Bar, becoming in course of time a noted
lawyer. He was engaged in financial
operations as well as in the practice of the
law in New York throughout his life. He was
the originator of the Metropolitan Opera
House. He married, in New York City, April
29, 1851, Mary Carolina, daughter of Jonas
Phillip and Mary (Whitney) Phoenix. She was
a sister of Lloyd Phoenix, Phillips Phoenix,
and also of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, the
antiquarian and genealogist, who died in
1881. Children: 1. Mary ida, married
Robert Percy Alden, of New York City. 2.
Harriet Louise, married Robert Goelet, of
New York City. 3. George Henry Jr.,
mentioned below. 4. Emmeline Whitney Dore.
5. Whitney Phoenix, died March 22, 1863. 6.
Edmund Warren, deceased. 7. Whitney W.,
married Charlotte A. Tooker, and resides at
New York and Newport, Rhode Island. 8. Anna
Phoenix, twin of Whitney W., died August 9,
1865. 9. Edith Caroline, married William
Starr Miller, of New York City. 10. Lloyd
Elliot, graduate of Columbia College, 1888.
(VIII)
George Henry (2), son of George Henry (10
and Mary (Phoenix) Warren, was born in Troy,
New York, October 17, 1855. He is a stock
broker, having also been educated as a
lawyer, and is a graduate from Columbia
College Law School. He is one of the
directors of the Metropolitan Opera House in
New York and director of various railroads.
He is a member of the Bar Association, the
Metropolitan and Union clubs, and was a
member of the New York Stock Exchange. He
married, May 14, 1885, George Williams, of
Stonington, Connecticut. Children: 1.
Constance Whitney, born in New York City,
January 17, 1888; married, December 19,
1912, at 924 Fifth Avenue, New York City,
Conte Guy de Lasteyrie, eldest son of the
Marquis de Lasteyrie, a descendant of
Several La Fayette of Revolutionary fame. 1.
George Henry, born at Newport, Rhode Island,
July 29, 1889. Mr. George henry Warren
lived at 924 Fifth Avenue, New York City,
and has a country place at Newport, Rhode
Island.
OGDEN. This
family is of English descent and of great
antiquity, it being claimed that the name
was first written "de Hoghton". There is
unmistakable evidence that families of this
surname, variously spelled, were located in
different part of England as far back as the
time of William the Conqueror. One of the
earliest forms of the name was borne by
Peter de Hoton, who in 1150 A. D. founded
Erden or Arden Priory, a Benedictine
nunnery. John de Hoton, in 1200 A. D., made
certain grants to the parish of Hoton, and
was the father of Sir John de Oketon, Knight
of Rowcandura. Other variations in the
spelling of the name have been Oketone,
Okton, Ocktone, Okedone, Okedon, Okeden,
Oakden, Okden, and finally Ogden; this last
form having first come into use about the
year 1500 A. D. the derivation of the name
seems to be from the Saxon "ock", oak-tree,
and "den" or "dean" a wooded valley; the
name is thus freely rendered "oak dale" or
"oak valley", and on all of the escutcheons
of the arms-bearing Ogden families of
England, the oak branches or leaves, and
acorns, are always found. The arms of this
branch of the family are: Sable, on a fesse
argent, between three acorns, or, a as many
oak leaves vert. The crest also displays
the oak leaves vert. The motto is: Tan
que je puis.
(I) Robert
Ogden, the earliest discoverable English
ancestor of the American family, is first
found upon record in the year 1453 when he
appears as a witness to a land grant in
Nutley, Hampshire. He again appears in 1457
in connection with a post-mortem search
concerning lands in Nutley belonging to one
Joan Ogden, of Ellingham, county
Southampton, who was presumably his wife.
He had two children: Richard, mentioned
below; William, married Agnes Hamlyn, and
died in 1517.
(II) Richard,
son of robert and Joan Ogden, married Mabel,
daughter of Johannes de Hoogan, of
Lyndhurst, Hants, prior to March 8, 1503.
Children: 1. John, married Margaret
Wharton, 2. William, mentioned below, 3.
Robert, whose line became extinct in 1613.
(III)
William, son of Richard and Mabel (de Hoogan)
Ogden, married, May 9, 1539, Abigail,
daughter of Henry Goodsall, of Bradley
Plain. He died before July 19, 1569, on
which date his widow confirmed to her
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George Henry Warren
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eldest son Edward and
his wife, all her lands and tenements in
Bradley Plain and Minstead. Children; 1.
Edward, ,mentioned below, 2. Abigail,
married Philip Bennet, 3. Charles.
(IV) Edward,
son of William and Abigail (Goodsall) Ogden,
was born at Bradley Plain, September 6,
1540. He married there, December 16, 1563,
Margaret, daughter of Richard and Margaret
Wilson, here parents confirming to herself
and her husband land in Bradley Plain and
Minstead. Children: 1. Thomas, born 1565,
married Elizabeth Samford. 2. Margaret,
1566, married Isaac Samford. 3. Richard,
mentioned below. 4. Edward, 1570, died in
infancy. 5. John, 1571, married Margaret
Huntington, daughter of Samuel and Margaret
(Crane) Huntington.
(V) Richard
(2), son of Edward and Margaret (Wilson)
Ogden, was born at Bradley Plain, May 15,
1568. He appears to have lived in Wiltshire
and had lands in New Sarum and Plaitford.
He married, May 2, 1592, Elizabeth, daughter
of Samuel and Margaret (Crane) Huntington,
and sister of his brother John's wife.
Children: 1. Richard, born 1596, died in
infancy. 2. Richard, 1597, died 1599. 3.
Edward, 1598, married Elizabeth Knight. 4.
Elizabeth, 1603, died in infancy. 5.
Elizabeth, 1607, married --------- Martin.
6. John, mentioned below. 7. Richard, 1610,
married Mary, daughter of David Hall, of
Gloucester, England and died at Fairfield,
Connecticut, leaving numerous descendants.
8. David, 1611, died without issue.
(VI) John
Ogden, the pilgrim, son of Richard (2) and
Elizabeth (Huntington) Ogden, was born at
Bradley Plain, Hampshire, England, September
19, 1609, where he married, May 8, 1637,
Jane, daughter of Jonathan Bond. He
prospered and acquired property; and three
children, two of whom were twins, were born
to him in England. The name of the vessel
in which he sailed for America is not known,
but it probably landed at Southampton, on
the southern shore of Long Island, early in
1640, as he is first mentioned as residing
here, where, on April 17, 1640, he received
a grant of land known as Shinnecock Hill,
adjoining Southampton on the west. He was a
leader among the settlers in founding the
town. He later sold his "housing and home
lot, etc." in Southampton, to a cousin of
the same name in Rye, now Westchester
County, New York and in 1642 was of
Stamford, Connecticut. In this same year he
entered into a contract, in connection with
his brother Richard, with Governor Kieft, to
build a stone church in the fort at New
Amsterdam; the cost was to be two thousand
five hundred Dutch guilders, to be paid in
cash, beaver, skins or merchandise.
Harassing warfare with the Indians retarded
the work on the structure, but it was
completed in 1645. This was the first
church erected in what is now New York City,
and stood for nearly a century, having been
destroyed by fire in 1741.
In 1644 the
Dutch governor of the New Netherlands
granted to John Ogden and five others a
tract of land then known as the Great
Plains, extending from the sound to the
south shore and embracing a large portion of
what is now the borough of queens, New
York. But the misgovernment of the Dutch
and their cruelty toward the Indians
repelled John Ogden, who was noted for his
justice and humanity, and he returned to
eastern Long Island to dwell again among his
own countrymen. In 1647 he obtained
permission of the Southampton authorities to
plant a colony of six families at North Sea,
on the Great Peconic Bay, which afterwards
was called Northampton. Here he established
the whaling industry of Long Island, which
remained until the discovery of petroleum in
1859, perhaps the most important source of
wealth and employment to the inhabitants.
On March 31, 1650, he was made freeman of
Southampton by the general council, and in
the same year became a magistrate and town
treasurer. His written treaty with
Wyandanch, sachem of Paumanicke or Long
Island, and chief of the Shinnecock Indians,
is still preserved.
After
residing upon Long island for a period of
twenty-four years the earliest settlers upon
the eastern side of the island saw greater
possibilities of material advancement by
transferring their interests to New Jersey.
It is possible that they were strongly
influenced by home affiliations and blood
relationships, the Ogdens, Cranes, and Bonds
being all Hampshire people, as was Sir
Philip Carteret to whom extensive grants in
New Jersey were made by the king. In the
summer of 1664, therefore, John Ogden and
his fellow colonists visited what is now
Elizabeth, New Jersey, purchasing from the
Indians their title to the land, October 25
of the same year. A month afterward a
patent was granted them by the
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Duke of York for "the
parcell of land bounded on the South by a
River commonly called the Raritan River, on
the East by ye Sea wch partes Staten Island
and the Main, to Run Northwards up after
cull Bay till you come to the first River
wch sets Westwards, etc."
John Ogden
appears to have taken the leading position
among the New Jersey settlers, and in 1665
took the oath of supremacy upon the
restoration of Charles II. According to
family tradition, he named the town in honor
of his mother, Elizabeth Huntington; other
tradition is that it was named in honor of
Lady Elizabeth, wife of Sir George
Carteret. Governor Carteret constituted the
Ogden settlement the seat of his colonial
government, and in October, 1665, appointed
John Ogden a justice of the peace; a month
later he was appointed member of the
governor's council and deputy governor,
other honors following. He was one of the
commissioners who negotiated with the
Massachusetts Bay Colony in regard to
purchasing part of the Elizabeth town
patent, and was also one of the
commissioners who adjusted the boundary line
between Elizabeth and Newark. When New York
was retaken by the Dutch in 1673, the
official position of John Ogden was not
disturbed although Carteret was overthrown.
By commission dated September 1, 1673, the
Dutch generals and council of war appointed
him Schout, or Burgomaster, of Elizabeth,
Newark, Shrewsbury, and other settlements in
New Jersey, and this constituted him
virtually governor of New Jersey. He was a
man of more than ordinary mark, a true
patriot and a genuine Christian. He died at
Elizabeth in May, 1682.
Little is
known concerning his wife, Jane Bond, except
that she was the daughter of Jonathan Bond
of England; she was very probably a sister
of Robert bond, her husband's intimate
associate both of Southampton and
Elizabeth. In his will by which she was
made administratix of his estate, John Ogden
refers to her as his "Deare and beloved wife
and soe hath been for above fowerty yeares".
Children: 1. John, born in England, March
3, 1638, died November 24, 1702; married
Elizabeth Phum. 2. David, born in England,
January 11, 1630' will proved February 27,
1892; married Elizabeth (Swaine) Ward. 3.
Jonathan, twin of David, mentioned below.
4. Joseph, born in America, November 9,
1642, died before January 15, 1690; married
Sarah Whitehead. 5. Benjamin, born in
America about 1654, died November 20, 1722,
in his sixty-ninth years; married Hannah
Woodruff. 6. Mary, born in America; married
John Woodruff the second.
(VII)
Jonathan, son of John and Jane (Bond) Ogden,
and twin brother of David, was born in
England, January 11, 1639, died January 3,
1732, aged ninety-three years. The only
mention of his name in the Southampton
records bears date October 21, 1664, when he
was witness to a deed. The following year he
removed with the family to New Jersey,
settling at Elizabethtown, and was one of
the original associates. On February 19,
1665, he took oath of allegiance to Charles
II, and was then called one of the "5 full
grown boys" of Good Old John Ogden.
Probably in December, 1667, he joined with
others in petitioning the governor and
council to have their lands laid out to them
according to agreement made with the
inhabitants; in 1673 he took the oath of
allegiance to the Dutch government of new
York; in 1676 he applied to the
surveyor-general, or his deputy, asking that
one hundred and twenty acres of land be laid
out to him; and on November 10, 1678, a
considerable amount of land was granted him
by Philip Carteret, governor, in the name of
Sir George Carteret, all of which, as well
as his house lot, receives clear and minute
description. He was appointed overseer of
his father's will on November 21, 1681. In
1692 he was receiver of taxes for Essex
County, New Jersey. In 1693 he was one of
the petitioners to the English King
concerning grievances under the government
in the colonies. He was a zealous
churchman, contributing in 1678 and later,
in connection with his brother, John, to the
minister's support; and in 1691 he is called
Deacon Jonathan Ogden, being named as one of
the largest contributors to the support of
the church. On December 26, 1690, he
assisted John Harriman, who had been chosen
surveyor, in assigning their respective
shares to the property holders of
Elizabethtown, and on several occasions
joined with others in the forcible
administration of the too frequently delayed
justice in the colonies. His will was
probated January 9, 1732, six days after his
death, and he was buried at Elizabeth.
His wife,
Rebekah, whose maiden name was
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probably Wood, was born
in November, 1648, died September 11, 1723.
Children: 1. Jonathan, mentioned below. 2.
Samuel, born 1678, died 1715; married
(first) Rachel Gardiner, (second) Johannah
Schellinx. 3. Robert, born 1687, died
November 20, 1733; married (first) Hannah
Crane, (second) Phebe (Roberts) Baldwin. 4.
Hannah, married John Meeker. 5. Rebecca,
married James Ralph.
(VIII)
Jonathan (2), son of Jonathan (1) and
Rebekah (Wood?) Ogden, was born about 1676,
died before June 10, 1731. He was a
resident of Elizabethtown, occupying a house
which had been owned by his father. When he
had about attained his majority, probably in
1696, he is named as one of the many who
petitioned the King for greater protection
from the east jersey proprietors. In 1701,
also, he was one of the petitioners to the
King asking to be taken under his direct
government, should the proprietors not
appoint a suitable person as governor, and
like his father was personally active in the
attempt to remedy the feeble administration
of justice by the authorities. Of the
parentage of his wife, Elizabeth, nothing is
known. Children: 1. Jonathan, of whom all
that is known is that he married and had
children among them was a son of the same
name. 2. John, mentioned below.
(IX) John
(20, son of Jonathan (2) and Elizabeth
Ogden, was born November 22, 1700, died
November 15, 1780. It is stated in
"Hatfield's History of Elizabeth" that he
resided in a neighborhood about two miles
from Elizabethtown, New Jersey, called
Sodom, and because of his singular piety was
familiarly called "Righteous Lot." In his
will he left a considerable amount of silver
and other heirlooms to his children, and
insured to the wife of his son John a home
in the family as long as she should remain a
widow. He and his wife were buried in the
First Presbyterian churchyard at Elizabeth,
New Jersey. He married, October 8, 1722,
Mary Osborn, born 1705, died April 15,
1722. The marriage is recorded at
Easthampton, Long Island and agrees with the
record in the old family Bible which
probably belonged to John Ogden, the
pilgrim, and which is not in the possession
of Mrs. Cortland Drake, of Mendham, New
Jersey. Children: 1. Abigail, born March
30, 1725, died March 18, 1782; married
--------- Pierson and had daughter, Mary.
2. Mary, born June 16, 1728, died October
10, 1757; married Michael Meeker, born 1720,
died 1755, son of Daniel Meeker, and had
Phebe and Charity. 3. John, born June 23,
1733, died February 5, 1777; married (first)
Elizabeth Pierson, (second) Joanna Quigley.
4. Phebe, born August 25, 1734, died July
10, 1798; married John Magie. 5. Jonathan,
born August 26, 1736. 6. Ezekiel, mentioned
below.
(X) Ezekiel,
son of John (2) and Mary Osborn Ogden, was
born June 23, 1741, died January 5, 1766.
Married --------------, and had one child,
Ezekiel, mentioned below.
(XI) Ezekiel,
son of Ezekiel (1) Ogden, was born November
26, 1765, died December 10, 1822. He
married, March, 1787, Abigail, daughter of
Matthias and Margaret (Magie) Ogden; she was
born October 3, 1765, died May 14, 1820.
Ezekiel Ogden and his wife are buried side
by side in the First Presbyterian churchyard
at Elizabeth. Children: 1. Abraham, born
December 30, 1787, at Union, New Jersey,
died in New York City, July 8, 1812. 2.
Ichabod, born July 18, 1780, died September
30, 1861; married Rebecca Townley. 3.
Ezekiel, born January 12, 1791, died 1823;
married Jane Lewes Cochran. 4. James
Kilborn, born July 30, 1793, died 1869;
married Margaret Hall. 5. Abigail, born
March 30, 1795, died September 25, 1871;
married Jonathan Magie. 6. Phebe, born
December 5, 1796, died young. 7. Hatfield,
born June 10, 1798, died October 7, 1817.
8. Phebe, born July 8, 1799, died November
20, 1878; Married, October 11, 1827, Hon.
Elias Darby, born 1797, died 1879, one time
mayor of Elizabeth, and had one child, Ogden
Darby, born 1828, died 1857. 9. John, born
February 18, 1801, died January 23, 1891;
married Jane Eliza Gray. 10. Samuel born
July 18, 1803, died February 9, 1881;
married Mary Barr Campbell. 11. Joseph
Meeker, mentioned below. 12. Theodore
Hamilton, born January 17, 1896; married,
October 26, 1830, Mary Jane Magie, having
one child, Theodore; removed to Michigan.
13. Jonathan, born June 12, 1807, died June
4, 1888; married Elizabeth Gorham.
(XII) Rev.
Dr. Joseph Meeker Ogden, son of Ezekiel (2)
and Abigail (Ogden) Ogden, was born at
Elizabeth, new Jersey, September 21, 1804,
died t Chatham, New Jersey, February 13,
1884. He was graduated from
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Princeton in 1824, and
entering the Presbyterian ministry, was
installed first pastor of the Presbyterian
Church at Chatham, New Jersey, in November,
1828. This church was organized October 23,
1828, and the Rev. Asa Lyman, of Morristown,
New Jersey, became its stated supply. His
health having failed he was compelled to
resign his labors in 1827, when the
congregation called the Rev. Dr. Ogden to
become their settled pastor. The original
house of worship soon became inadequate to
accommodate the growing congregation, and a
new church was erected in 1832. This
building was subsequently enlarged and
beautified, and the efficient labors of the
pastor and the growing regard of the people
resulted in a greatly increased
congregation. Rev. Joseph M. Ogden was not
only popular in his own church and
community, but became well known and
appreciated throughout the state and
officiated upon many occasions outside of
his own pastorate. He resigned the church at
Chatham on September 23, 1873, having
enjoyed an uninterrupted successful
pastorate of forty-five years. He and his
wife were both interred in the burying
ground at Chatham. Dr. Ogden married, in
1849, Emeline Atwood, daughter of Richard
and Hannah (Hayes) Sweasey. She was born at
Newark, New Jersey, April 26, 1822, died at
Chatham, August 17, 1890. Children: 1.
William Wilburforce, born March, 1850;
married Mariana or Marana N. Jarman. 2.
Cornelia Townley, born August 16, 1851;
married Francis L. Minton. 3. Joseph
Wallace, mentioned below. 4. Edward Prime,
born July 15, 1855, died February 2, 1899;
married Sarah Minton. 5. Henry Day, married
Mary Freeman.
(XIII) Joseph Wallace, son of Rev. Joseph
Meeker and Emeline Atwood (Sweasey) Ogden,
was born at Chatham, New Jersey, in April,
1853. He received his middle name in honor
of Mr. William C. Wallace, the life-long
friend and parishioner of his father, born
the same year and graduated in the same
class at college. Dr. Ogden desired a
liberal education for his son and entered
him at Lafayette College in the class of
'72; though he did not remain to the end of
the course, and was not graduated with his
class, he later on received the degree of
A.M. from the college. Upon entering
business life his first occupation was that
of clerk ina brokerage firm on Wall Street.
His advancement was rapid, and in 1881 he
established the banking and brokerage firm
of J. W. Ogden & Company, which he conducted
with marked success for many years. The
house engaged in many large financial
transactions and acquired a well merited
reputation for business sagacity and for
safe and conservative methods. Mr. Ogden
has become one of the prominent and
influential figures in financial circles in
New York City, and has been connected in
various ways for a number of years with many
leading corporations and industries. For
several years prior to its absorption by the
Erie Railroad, he was vice-president and
director of the New York, Susquehanna, &
Western Railroad; at a later period he
acquired extensive interests in the
anthracite coal fields, becoming president
of the Algonquin and Laurel Run Coal
Companies of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He
is a member of the Union, Down town, and
Riding Clubs of New York, and of the
Morristown Golf and Whippany River clubs.
Mr. Ogden is not prominent as a
political and has never desired political
office. He is a staunch Presbyterian and
has been liberal in the support of the
church. In July, 1902, when members of the
church at Chatham of which his father had
been pastor for forty-five years, opened a
subscription for building a new church, Mr.
Ogden requested the withdrawal of
subscriptions to the amount of six thousand
dollars which had been received from others,
and himself contributed $10,000 to the cost
of the building. The descendants of Mr.
William C. Wallace, his father's old friend
and classmate, requested that they might be
permitted to provide the funds for the
interior decoration. The proposition was
accepted by Mr. Ogden, and the trustees
decided to change the name of the church to
the Ogden Memorial. Mr. Ogden is a resident
of Morristown, New Jersey, where he owns a
handsome estate, Loantaka Farms, upon which
he passes a portion of the year; this
property has been in possession of various
member of the family since early colonial
days. In the year 1884, Mr. Ogden married
charlotte Ward.
This is a movement on foot to erect a
monument in Bowling Green, New York City, to
the memory of John Ogden, at the
tercentenary of the city's settlement. He
was the earliest settler of pure English
blood in New York.
HALSEY. The
earliest Englishman who bore the name of
Halsey, as far as the available records
show, lived in the extreme western end of
Cornwall between Penzance and land's End.
We are told that in the time of Richard I,
who was crowned in 1189, and of King John
and his successor, the estate of the Cornish
family comprised "the Lands of the family
surnamed de Als, now Hals, so called from
the Barton and dismantled manor of Als, now
Alse and Alesa, in Buryan". The Norman
preposition seems to point to some Norman
origin. The word itself is more likely a
purely Saxon one, dating from the invasions
of the fifth century or Danish, and thus was
brought over by the Vikings for centuries
before the Norman conquest. In Holland the
name existed and Franz Hals, the painters,
gave it renown. As a common noun and verb
the word was used from early times by the
English, and signifies in one case the neck
and in the other to embrace. The Halseys of
America are descended from Thomas Halsey, of
Hertfordshire, England, and Southampton,
Long Island, and go back to John Halsey, of
as the Parsonage, Great Gaddesden, mentioned
as father of William Halsey, als, chamber,
in grant of Rectory, March 20, 1520.
(I) Thomas
Halsey, the immigrant ancestor of the Halsey
family in America, was born January 2,
1592. He was a mercer of London, and was
living at Naples, August 10, 1621, and at
Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1637. He was the
owner of a hundred acres of land in Lynn;
was one of the founders of the town of
Southampton, Long Island, 1640, the first
English town in the state of New York. he
was a delegate to the general court at
Hartford, Connecticut, in 1664; joined in
remonstrance, February 15, 1670; and was
named November 1, 1676, in the patent of
confirmation. He was also named in Governor
Dongan's patent, December 6, 1686. He lived
may 4, 1657, probably on Horse Mill Lane,
which ran from Main Street to the Town
Pond. In a list found in the town records
of 1647 of inhabitants living on the west
side of Main Street, commencing at the North
end, he is described as living in the eighth
house south of Isaac. His will, dated July
28, 1677, is printed in the introduction and
is recorded in the Book of Wills A., New
York County. He married (first) before
1627, a woman of the baptismal name of
Phoebe, who was murdered by two Pequot
Indians in 1649. He married (second) July
25, 1660, Ann Johnes, widow of Edward Johnes.
Children: 1. Thomas, probably born 1627.
2. Isaac, mentioned below. 3. Daniel,
1630. 4. Elizabeth, married Richard Howell.
(II) Isaac,
second son of Thomas and Phoebe Halsey, was
born probably in 1628-29, died in 1725. In
a list of the inhabitants of Southampton in
1698 Isaac appears as a trustee of
Southampton, December 6, 1686, in the Dongan
patent. He lived on the west side of main
street, near the North End, and there is a
record showing him alive in 1712. A broken
stone in the graveyard at Southampton says:
"Isaac Halsey died January 31, 1725. It was
probably the grave of this Isaac. He
married a woman whose Christian name was
Mary, but who maiden surname is unknown.
Children: 1. Isaac, born at Southampton,
New York, 1664-65, died in 1752, aged
eighty-eight years. 2. Joseph, mentioned
below. 3. Daniel, born 1670, died
march-August, 1719. 4. Joshua, born at
Southampton 1674-75; married Martha, only
daughter of Abraham Willman. 5. Thomas,
born at Southampton, died January, 1764. 6.
Elizabeth, married a man of the name of
Howell. 7. Samuel named in the list of
inhabitants of Southampton in 1698. 8.
Mary, married a man of the name of Post. 9.
Jemima, married, May 22, 1683, John Larison,
died before December 20, 1686. |
