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High Sheriff and Alderman,"" and great granddaughter of Matthias
Heathfield (or Hetfield, or Hatfield), who was one of the "Associates"
under the Nicolls Patent, having come from New Haven, Conn., where
he was Hving in 1660. Her great grandfather is supposed to have been a
son of Thomas Hatfield of Leyden, a native of Yorkshire, and member
of Robinson's church at Leyden.
Robert and Phoebe (Hatfield) Ogden had thirteen children, beside
one whose name has not been ascertained, as follows
148 i. Phcebe^ (b. 1737); who married, in 1762, Col. Thomas Moseley,
M.D., of East Haddam, Conn.
149 ii. Anna^ (b. 1740) ;
who
married, in 1757, Col. Oliver Spencer "of
Elizabeth and Ohio." Her husband "'commanded a regiment in the
battle of Princeton, and after the war was judge of probate in Ohio ;
where he died Jan. 22, 1811.'""
150 iii. Rhoda^ (b. 1742, d. 1822) ; who married, in 1760, Judge Timothy
Edwards of Stockbridge, Mass., eldest son of the elder President Jonathan
Edwards.
The following extract from the "Autobiography" of a nephew of
hers, by marriage, sets this lady before us vividly :
" ' In the summer of 1809, I met my cousin Aaron Burr at the house of our com-
mon uncle Hon. Timothy Edwards in Stockbridge. . . . The
:
day after Burr left
our uncle's I called at the house to talk over the impressions on this unwonted visit.
My aunt was a venerable and pious woman. ' I want to tell you, cousin,' said she,
' the scene I passed through this morning. When Col. Burr's carriage had driven up
to the door, I asked him to go with me into the north room, and I cannot tell you
how anxious I felt, as I, an old woman, went through the hall with that great man
Col. Burr, to admonish him, and to lead him to repentance. After we were by our-
selves, I said to him :
with you ;
p. 750.
" Colonel Burr, I have a thousand tender memories associated
I took care of you in your childhood, and I feel the deepest concern over
'* Hatfield's Elizabeth, ut supra, p. 325.
" The American Biogr. Dictionary. .
243
By William Allen. Third Ed. Boston, 1857,