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General Ogden married, in 1776, Hannah daughter of Brigadier-
General Elias Dayton of Elizabethtown, N. J.; and had, beside a child
whose name has not been ascertained :
247 ' I- George Montgomery^ (b. 1779, d. 1824); who was graduated at
the College of New Jersey in 1795; "appointed First Lieutenant, nth
U. S. Inf. 3 Mch. 1799 ; became
ing month ;
Regimental Quarter-Master in the follow-
and on the reduction of the army, on the 25 June 1800, was
honorably discharged." He married, in 1828, Euphrosyne Merieult of
248 New Orleans, and had a daughter Frances Blanche'^ (b. 1822, d. 1878);
who married Celestin Defau Baron de Pontalba of Chateau de Mont
L'Evfeque, Seine et Oise, France,
" and had issue :
249-50 "(i-) Edward;^ who married Clotilde Vernois ; (2.) Louise;^ who
married Georges Demenil, Vicomte de Maricourt of Chateau Vieux
251 Maisons, Seine et Marne, France; (3.) Henry ;^ who married Marie de
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Maricourt.
" Celestin de Pontalba was of French and Spanish descent. His
grandfather the Marquis de Pontalba being French, while his father mar-
ried, when on a visit to New Orleans, Md"" Delmonastre the daughter of
a government official under the Spanish rule."
2. Henry ^ (b. 1781, d. 1799).
3. Francis Barber,^ born in 1 783 ;
who
"was appointed Consul of the United States at Liverpool by President
Andrew Jackson in 1829, and held that position until 1840, when he was
transferred by President Van Buren to Bristol, which office he retained
until his death in 1857.
"John O. Sargent, in a lecture delivered before the Boston Lyceum,
in December 1843, thus speaks of Mr. Ogden : 'While opposed by such a
powerful array of English scientific wisdom, the inventor (John Ericson)
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