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"He was graduated at Yale College in 1728, and became '
one of
these giants of the law in New Jersey.' From 1772 to 1776 he was a
Judge of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. At the breaking out of the
War Mr. Ogden went to New York, and became a very active loyalist,
Member of the Board of Refugees 1779. His correspondence with
Galloway, the Pennsylvania loyalist, evinces great bitterness against the
Americans, or '
rebels.' He drew up a plan of government for the colonies
after their subjection by Great Britain, which he said was '
sure to take
place soon.' The Upper House was to be a House of Lords, and Barons
were to be created to fill it. After peace had been declared, he went to
England, to urge the claims of the loyalists whose property had been con-
fiscated by the Americans. His own property had been confiscated, and
he was remunerated by the British Government 1 790. He returned to the
United States, and settled in Queens co., L. I., where he lived until he
died. . . . His
1 769-70." »^
house was burned during the Anti-Lawyer Riots of
He married Gertrude daughter of Abraham Gouverneur and "grand-
daughter of Hon. Jacob Leisler, who was tried on a charge of high treason,
and executed 16 May, 1691 ;" by whom he had eleven children:
(^i.) Isaac ;^ {2}) Josiah ;^ (2,.^ Isaac.^
" ' Isaac [410] Ogden joined the British in New York, remained there
during the war, then went to England, and afterwards settled in Canada,
where he was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court, and so continued
until his death.'"*
He was twice married : first, to Mary daughter of Rev. Isaac Browne ;
and, secondly, to Sarah Hanson. By his first marriage he had : i. Mary ; ®
412-13 2. Catharine ;'° who married Major Andrews ;
. . . By
T^.Peier;^
who "' spent a
^ Abridged from The Provincial Courts of New Jersey, with Sketches of the Bench and Bar.
pp. 182-88.
Richard S. Field. Collections of the New Jersey Historical Society. New York, 1849,
»5 Id., p. 188.
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