The Passaic valley, New Jersey, in three . ates of the colony. Hesat in the General Courtas a representative fromS()utha!ii])ton in May,165!t, and in the UpperHouse in May, 1661, andafterward. The Dutchiiaviug taken possessionof New York, John Og-den w a s appointed Schout for the sixtowns — Elizabeth-towne, Middletown, NewYorke, Woodbridge, Pis-cattaway, and Schrus-biiry. his commissiondating September, this time he was vir-tually Governor of the English towns of New Jersey. Hedied in 168S, the acknowledged pioneer of the town, inwhose house the first white child of the se
The Passaic valley, New Jersey, in three . ates of the colony. Hesat in the General Courtas a representative fromS()utha!ii])ton in May,165!t, and in the UpperHouse in May, 1661, andafterward. The Dutchiiaviug taken possessionof New York, John Og-den w a s appointed Schout for the sixtowns — Elizabeth-towne, Middletown, NewYorke, Woodbridge, Pis-cattaway, and Schrus-biiry. his commissiondating September, this time he was vir-tually Governor of the English towns of New Jersey. Hedied in 168S, the acknowledged pioneer of the town, inwhose house the first white child of the settlement wasborn. Sydney Norris Ogdens father, ^Morgan Lewis Ogden,was born in-NeAV York City. January 7, 18U9, and died inNew^ark, N. J., December 23, 1876. He w-as the son ofSnuund Gouverneur Ogden and Eliza Lewis, daughter ofFrancis Lewis, of New York City, and a granddaughter ofFrancis Lewis, one of the signers of the Declaration of In-dependence. Morgan Lewis Ogdens grandfather. Iiev. FzalOgden, married Mary Gouverneur, and figured prominently. SYDNEY NORRIS OGDEN. lilOCKArilHAL 139 in II ;wly liisloi-v nf NCwnik. Tlic Kcv. I/.n! Oiidciis jiTCiil-iiniiKlmdllicr. l^lizaldl h Ward, wilV of l>a\i(l tlic daiiulitcr of Samuel Swaiiic aiul tiic widow otJosiali Ward. She was tlu tradilional licroiiic who was thefirs! lo hiiid on our Iassaic shores froui tlie Iilurinis :ii/,a (ileiidy (his wife) was horn Seideiiil»er2X, ISIT, in Halliniore, .Mil., and died Deceniher S-l lS(i2, inWasliintiloii, ji. (. Slie was tiie (huiiihler of .Malliiew . and Sydney Kacvtdy Xorris. Sydney Norris O^den was horn in New York <ily, Ani;nst7, 1853. In 1855 he moved willi liis jiai-enls (o Washin-iton,D. raetice of hiw intJHSupreme Court (dihe Iuited States. In \SiVA tlie familymoved to Newark, N. •!., wiiere lliey passed the summer inthe Old Kearny .Mansion on I!ellevilie .\venue, whosetwenty-five acres hordeied on the Iassaic IJiver. In 1S(&
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