Historic Newark; a collection of the facts & traditions about the most interesting sites, streets and buildings of the city; . n-fiscated by the New Jersey authorities. In the estimate of his losses David Ogden lists his mansion house,out-houses, garden, coach-house, barns, granaries, stables, and aboutthree acres of land, at Newark, in the main street, between the churchand Presbyterian meeting-house, also several other lots of land. In January, 1777, accompanied by the Rev. Isaac Browne, pastorof Trinity Church, David Ogden fled to New York, and, after havingamassed debts amounting to seven
Historic Newark; a collection of the facts & traditions about the most interesting sites, streets and buildings of the city; . n-fiscated by the New Jersey authorities. In the estimate of his losses David Ogden lists his mansion house,out-houses, garden, coach-house, barns, granaries, stables, and aboutthree acres of land, at Newark, in the main street, between the churchand Presbyterian meeting-house, also several other lots of land. In January, 1777, accompanied by the Rev. Isaac Browne, pastorof Trinity Church, David Ogden fled to New York, and, after havingamassed debts amounting to seven hundred pounds, before his allowancefrom the government came, he sailed for England. In their hasty flightfrom Newark the rector and his invalid wife left all their householdgoods behind them. Being stanch Royalists, they were anxious to reacha Royalist stronghold, then New York. After this flight the Rev. wrote of Trinity Church being used by the rebels as a hospitalfor the sick. He added also that they broke up and destroyed theseats and erected a large stack of chimneys in the middle of it. HISTORIC N E WARK. NEWARK, , IN 1851-1858 Overlooking the city from the residence of T. V. Johnson, Esq., which stood on Wallace Placeand Bank Street. From a print by Smith, Fern & Co., 218 Fulton Street, New YorkOwned by the New Jersey Historical Society Colonel Josiah Ogden died before the Revolutionary War, andwas buried somewhere in the Old Burying-ground. Now a slab liesover his remains, which have found a final resting-place at the entranceof Trinity Church. The inscription states that Colonel Josiah Ogdendied May 17, 1763, in the eighty-fourth year of his age. I give,he said in his will, to the rector, church wardens, and vestry ofTrinity Church, in Newark, my silver cup and porringer with twohandles to the same, for and to the only use of said Church. Tom Aioore, the Irish poet, when he visited the United States in1804, tradition says, was a guest of the Ogdens, by w
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