The Ogden family in America, Elizabethtown branch, and their English ancestry; John Ogden, the Pilgrim, and his descendants, 1640-1906 . Louis XVI. by his friendGeneral Lafayette. The French monarch, wishing to pay him a compliment, and titlesor orders being out of the question with a republican officer, granted him the distin-guished honor of le droit du tabouret. He died at the early age of thirty-six years,and was buried in the First Pres. churchyard, Elizabethtown, N. J. The horizontal slabover his tomb is thus inscribed: Sacred to the memory of General Matthias Ogden who died on the 31^ d
The Ogden family in America, Elizabethtown branch, and their English ancestry; John Ogden, the Pilgrim, and his descendants, 1640-1906 . Louis XVI. by his friendGeneral Lafayette. The French monarch, wishing to pay him a compliment, and titlesor orders being out of the question with a republican officer, granted him the distin-guished honor of le droit du tabouret. He died at the early age of thirty-six years,and was buried in the First Pres. churchyard, Elizabethtown, N. J. The horizontal slabover his tomb is thus inscribed: Sacred to the memory of General Matthias Ogden who died on the 31^ day of March 1791 Aged XXXVI years In him were united those various virtues of the Soldier the Patriot and the Friend which endear men to society. Distress failed not to find relief in his bounty. Unfortunate merit a refuge in his generosity. If manly sense and dignity of mind If social virtues libral and refind Nippd in their bloom deserve coinpassions tears Then reader Weep, for Ogdens dust lies here Weed his grave clean ye men of geniusfor he was your kinsmanTread lightly on his ashes ye men of feelingfor he was your brother 134. Gov. AARON OGDEN, No. 315 ^ijctl^ (feneration CHILDREN (Chart 6): 892. George Montgomery Ogden, b. 1779; d. 1824; m. Euphrosine Merieult. 893. Henry Ogden, b. 1781; d. unm. 1799. 894. Francis Barber Ogden, b. Mar. 3, 1783; d. July 4, 1857; m. Louisa S. Pownall. 895. Jane Chandler Ogden, b. Nov. i, 1784; d. Sept. 9, 1785. 896. Peter Vroom Ogden, b. 1785; d. 1820; m. Celestine du Plessis. 315. Gov. Aaron Ogden, (Robert^^ Robert^, Jonathan^,John), b. Dec. 3, 1756; d. Apr. 19, 1839; m. Oct. 27, 1787, ElizabethChetwood, b. 1766; d. Sept. 27, 1826; dau. of John Chetwood and MaryEmott, his wife. Governor, or as he was usually called Col. Aaron Ogdensis was, like his father andbrothers, a man of remarkable characteristics. Born in Elizabethtown, N. J., he graduatedat Princeton College before he was seventeen ye^rs old, and in 1775 became tutor in
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