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were educated some of the most eminent men of the country, among whom
were Richard Stockton, Gabriel Ford and Josiah Ogden Hoffman. In the
minds of some persons Abraham Ogden was deemed of doubtful politics,
and as such he was denounced to General Washington. To avert from
him any persecution on that score Washington proposed to make his house
the Headquarters of the army, and thus became, for several weeks, an
inmate of his family. Thomas L. Ogden was at that time a lad of 4 or 5
years of age, and the Commander-in-Chief, putting him astride the pummel
of his saddle, would often appear before the army with this youthful aide-
de-camp in front. In one of their fencing bouts, the button of the foil
dropping off, Washington was scratched in the wrist, and thus received, it
is believed, his only wound. This, being magnified into an attempt at
assassination, alarmed the country people, and convinced them that the
General was not safe in the house of Squire Ogden. .
. . Abraham
Ogden was appointed by Washington a Commissioner to obtain the relin-
quishment of a title which the Iroquois Nation of Indians had to a portion
of the Northern part of New York. This brought him to a local knowl-
edge of the county of St. Lawrence, and resulted in the purchase of a large
tract of country by Abraham Ogden, Samuel Ogden, Gouverneur Morris,
Nicholas Hoffman, Richard Harison, and Stephen Van Rensselaer, and
Ogdensburg was founded.' " ®
Abraham Ogden married, in 1767, Sarah Frances Ludlow; and had:
I. David A.^ (d. 1829); who married Rebecca Edwards; and had:
{\^ Isaac Edwards ;'' who married: first, Euphrosyne (Merieult) widow
of George Montgomery Ogden (see above) ; secondly, Letitia Hannah ;
and, thirdly, EHzabeth Chamberlain; (2.) Sarah, '^ who married
Charles R. Codman ;
"(3.) William ; '' who
married his cousin Harriett S.
daughter of Gouverneur Ogden; (4.) Wallace;'^ (5.) Mary E.;'^ who
married H. LeRoy Newbold ;
'' Waddington ; (7.) Catharine H.;
cousin ; (8.) Susan W.; '' who
"' Isaac Ogden's MS. Memoir of Thomas L. Ogden.
(6.) Sarmiel C.;'^ who married Sarah
who
married Samuel Ogden, her
married William Roebuck ; (9.) Rebecca E.; ''
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