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317 viii. David^ (d. 1789). Family-tradition says that he fell in love
with his niece Susan Edwards, which, being a hopeless attachment, caused
him to become deranged. " He was just ready to be admitted to the New
Haven Bar, ordered a full suit of black, dressed himself in it, and shot
himself." His Will, dated 1789, in the Probate Registry of New Haven,
commences with these words :
" In the name of God, sole Governor of all Worlds, Jesus Christ, the Holy
Ghost, the Twelve Apostles, Saints, thrones. Powers, Virtues, Angels, Arch Angels,
Cherubim and Seraphim—Amen."
His principal legatee was his sister-in-law Mrs. Mary (Cozzens)
Ogden, to whom he bequeathed all his
"worldly Concerns, as Goods, Chatties, Lands, Tennements and Hereditaments,
which I, whilst an Inhabitant of this Planet, was in Possession of . . . she first
paying . . . Also
paying to Susan Edwards, my Lovely Niece, the sum of ^25.,
New York money, to be lain out for a Mourning dress for her the said Susan, by
her the said Susan."
All the descents from JONATHAN (5) OGDEN of the second
generation, son of "Good old John Ogden," having been thus set forth,
with as much of detail and exactness as our information rendered possible,
we have next to give the hues of descent from DAVID (6) OGDEN,
next younger brother of Jonathan, by his wife Elizabeth (Swayne) Ward.
The eldest child of David and Elizabeth (Swayne-Ward) Ogden was :
318 i. David^ (b. 1677, d. 1734) ;
called Captain David Ogden, though a
lawyer by profession ; of Newark, N. J.; who married Abigail .
In the porch of Trinity Church at Newark is the following inscription :
" Here lieth interred the Body of Capt. David Ogden, who died
July y" ii"", A. D. 1734, aged 56 years."
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