The Ogden family in America, Elizabethtown branch, and their English ancestry; John Ogden, the Pilgrim, and his descendants, 1640-1906 . an evidence of the industry displayed by them it may be stated that within three yearsafter their arrival they had built them each a house, and had a saw-mill in operation, with acarding machine at work in the upper story. Soon after this they added a fulling mill, andwere manufacturing woolen goods suitable for the demands of the times. During the administration of President Monroe, the state of New York, in order toencourage the manufacture of woolen g
The Ogden family in America, Elizabethtown branch, and their English ancestry; John Ogden, the Pilgrim, and his descendants, 1640-1906 . an evidence of the industry displayed by them it may be stated that within three yearsafter their arrival they had built them each a house, and had a saw-mill in operation, with acarding machine at work in the upper story. Soon after this they added a fulling mill, andwere manufacturing woolen goods suitable for the demands of the times. During the administration of President Monroe, the state of New York, in order toencourage the manufacture of woolen goods, offered a silver tea set as a prize for the bestwoolen goods made in the state. This prize was awarded Abraham Ogden, and is still inpossession of his descendants. In design it was emblematic of the woolen industry, and isshown in the accompanying illustration. The land comprising the Walton tract was covered with a growth of immense pinetrees, and these had only to be cut and rafted down the Delaware to Philadelphia to find 200 ao ^ mS > o -1 o z ^ ? z- o CO ^ * -a r> £ w 3 >» 3;c > TO n ^ s - 2: £? >n r. *^i?^B»i6iJ*»^i>«asi;jc^i
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