Jonathan Ogden

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• Alternate death: 3 Jan 1732, Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey

Family/Spouse: Rebekah. Rebekah was born in Nov 1648; died on 11 Sep 1723 in Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Hannah Crane in 1712. Hannah (daughter of Jasper Crane and Joanna Swaine) was born in 1691; died on 30 Oct 1726 in Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Speaker of the New Jersey Assembly during the early runup to the Revolution. Attended the 1765 congress of the American colonies as one of the three delegates from New Jersey, but resigned over procedural differences, causing him to be accused of loyalist sympathies. In the next decade he and his family were active in the Revolutionary cause. In 1776 he was chairman of the Elizabethtown Committee of Safety, and his son Matthias was colonel of the 1st New Jersey Regiment.

Robert married Phebe Hatfield in 1736. Phebe (daughter of Matthias Hatfield and Hannah Miller) was born on 25 Nov 1720; died on 22 Dec 1796. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 22 Dec 1822, Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut

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From The Ogden Family in America, Elizabethtown Branch, and Their English Ancestry by William Ogden Wheeler (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1907):

RHODA (Ogden) EDWARDS died at Litchfield, Conn., while visiting friends. She was a remarkable woman, loyal and conscientious. An autobiography of a nephew by marriage has this important entry: "In the summer of 1809 I met my cousin Aaron Burr at the house of our common uncle Hon. Timothy Edwards in Stockbridge....The day after Burr left our uncle's I called at the house to talk over the impressions of this unwonted visit. My aunt was a venerable and pious woman. 'I want to tell you, cousin,' said she, 'the scene I passed through this morning. When Col. Burr's carriage had driven up to the door, I asked him to go with me into the north room, and I cannot tell you how anxious I felt, as I, an old woman, went through the hall with that great man Col. Burr, to admonish him, and to lead him to repentance. After we were by ourselves I said to him: "Colonel Burr, I have a thousand memories associated with you. I took care of you in your childhood, and I feel the deepest concern over your erring steps. You have committed a great many sins against God, and you killed that great and good man General Hamilton. I beseech you to repent, and fly to the blood and righteousness of the Redeemer for pardon, I cannot bear to think of you as being lost, and I often pray most earnestly for your salvation." The only reply he made me,' continued the excellent old lady, 'was, "Oh! aunt, don't feel so badly; we shall both meet in heaven yet; meanwhile may God bless you." He then tenderly took my hand, and left the house.'"

Rhoda married Timothy Edwards on 25 Sep 1760 in Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey. Timothy (son of Rev. Jonathan Edwards and Sarah Pierpont) was born on 25 Jul 1738 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts; died on 28 Oct 1813 in Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusetts; was buried in Stockbridge Cemetery, Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]