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He had :
1. Sarah ;* born November 2, 1699 ; who
married Nathaniel Johnson
of Newark, N. J. (see 3)0i)n!S0n part of this monograph).
2. John* (b. 1708, d. 1795); Judge John Ogden ;
who
married
Hannah daughter of Capt. Jonathan Sayre of Elizabethtown, N. J.,
descended from Joseph Sayre, one of the founders of Elizabethtown ; and
by her had, beside other children not named: [}.) John ;^ Capt. John
Ogden; {2.') Aaron ;^ (t^.) Hannah^ (b. 1737, d. 1780); who, in 1763,
married Rev. James Caldwell of EHzabethtown, N. J.
" Mr. Caldwell was a Virginian. His father John Caldwell, of Scotch
ancestry, came to this country from the county of Antrim, Ireland.
Located on Cub Creek, Va., a branch of the Staunton river, in what is
now Charlotte Co. Here in the wilderness, James, the youngest of seven
children, was born in April 1734. He graduated at Princeton College
Sept. 1759, and pursued his theological course of study under the tuition
of President Davies. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Bruns-
wick, July 29, 1760. He was ordained, Sep. 17, 1760, by the Presbytery
of New Brunswick, and appointed by the Synod to supply the southern
vacancies, particularly those in Carolina. He received a call from the
Presbyterian church of Elizabethtown in Nov. 1761, which he accepted.
. . . At
various times, through the long years of the war .
. .
Mr. Caldwell served not only as Chaplain of the Jersey Brigade, but as
Assistant Commissary-General. . . . After the murder of his wife
(Connecticut Farms, June 8, 1780), he purchased a small house at Turkey
(New Providence), and resided there until his decease. At the fall election
of I 780 he was chosen by his fellow citizens, in testimony of their high
regard, a member of the State Council. He was shot by a soldier 24 Nov.
1
781." A niece of his (brother's daughter) was the mother of John
Caldwell Calhoun of South Carolina.
Rev. James and Hannah (Ogden) Caldwell had ten children
\. Margaret,^ born in 1764; who married Isaac Canfield of Morristown,
N. J.;
2. Joh7i Dickinson,^ born in 1 765 ; who died in infancy ;
born in 1767; who married, in 1790, James R. Smith of
3. Hannah,^
New York;
A,. John Edwards,^ born in 1769; who died in 18 19; ^. James B.^ born
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