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Arms :
Gyronny
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of eight Arg. and Gu., in dexter chief an oak-branch fructed ppr.
Crest : an oak-tree ppr., a lion rampant against it (Ogden-Oakden).
HE families of Ogden and Johnson, which became alHed to each
other, by marriage, at an early period, were both intimately
concerned in the settlement of EHzabethtown, Newark and other
towns in New Jersey, in the seventeenth century. It is proper, therefore,
to begin this monograph with a sketch of the origin of those pioneer-
emigrations by which New England blood, and the influence of the insti-
tutions and habits of New England, so early spread themselves westward.
The grant of a Charter to Connecticut by the restored King Charles
II. gave the first impulse to renewed emigration. That patent, by swallow-
ing up the Colony of New Haven, awakened jealous fears of the loss of
liberties which had been dearly cherished here. The Restoration itself,
also, aroused anxious apprehensions in the minds of all colonists of New
England. The Dutch Government in possession of New Amsterdam,
controlling the very fertile region between Hudson River and Newark
Bay, and claiming jurisdiction even as far as Virginia, saw its opportunity
and in 1661 issued a general invitation to "all Christian people of tender
conscience, in England or elsewhere oppressed, to erect colonies anywhere
within the jurisdiction of Petrus Stuyvesant in the West Indies, between
New England and Virginia in America." This invitation was at once
taken up by residents within the bounds of the New Haven Colony ; but
the conditions for which they stipulated—substantially on the principle that
"the saints shall rule the earth, and we are the saints"—were not agreed
to. Not long after this, in 1663-64, the Duke of York obtained from
his royal brother a grant of the sovereignty of a vast domain, including
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