Friday, January 8, 2010

Jonathan Ogden 1646-1732 Rebecca Wood 1648


The Ogden family is afflicted with misinformation perpetuated by the infamous Gustave Anjou, a fake genealogist. This is why you need to find original sources when possible. 


Transcription of headstone:
Here Lyeth ye Body of Mr Jonathan Ogden
Decd Jan. ye 3d 1732 in ye 86th year of his Age.
 My Life was Christ my Death is gain
This bed gives ease To all my pain
My Dust is safe my Soul at home
To meet with Joy when Christ shall come

-H-
6th Great Grandfather

Jonathan Ogden

Parents: Unknown
Born 11 January 1646 Probably Southampton, Long Island, New York
Married Rebecca Wood abt 1674
Died 3 Jan 1732 New Jersey
Buried First Presbyterian Churchyard, Elizabeth, Union, New Jersey
Sources
Family Search
ancestry.com
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7151820/jonathan-ogden





"Here
Lieth ye Body
of Rebekah Og
den of Elifabethtown
born in November
in the year 1648 who
Departed this Life
ye 1th Day of September
Anno Domini 1722"

Rebecca Wood

Born Nov 1648
Died 11 Sep 1722 Elizabethtown, Union, New Jersey
Buried First Presbyterian Churchyard, Elizabeth, Union, New Jersey
Sources
Family Search
ancestry.com




CHILDREN


*Jonathan Ogden
Born abt 1676 New Jersey
Married Elizabeth Wheeler (?)
Children:
Died 10 Jun 1732
Buried
Sources
Family Search
ancestry.com
Samuel Ogden
Born abt 1678 New Jersey
Married 1) Hannah J Schellinger 10 Sep 1707
2) Rachel Gardner
Died 1715 New Jersey
Sources
Family Search
ancestry.com
Rebecca Ogden
Born abt 1680 New Jersey
Married James Ralph
Sources
Family Search
ancestry.com
Hannah Ogden
Born Abt 1682 New Jersey
Married John Meeker abt 1692
Died 1730
Sources
Family Search
ancestry.com
His epitaph reads:  
Here lieth the remains of Robert Ogden, Esq.  Obit (Died) 30 Nov 1733 age 46
One dear to God, to man most dear, A Saint in both Church and State, Whose soul doth with bright angels mate, His name immortal shall remain Till this cold clay revives again.

Robert Ogden

Born abt 1687 New Jersey
Married 1) Hannah Crane 1712 (died in 1726)
Children:  Hannah, Robert, Phoebe, Moses, Elihu, David
2) Phoebe Roberts 1727
Note: widow of Jonathan Baldwin with whom she had Joanna and Matthias
Children:  Rebecca, Mary, Sarah
Died 30 Nov 1733 Elizabethtown, Union, New Jersey
Buried First Presbyterian Churchyard, Elizabeth, Union, New Jersey
NOTE: his stone wears evidence of being struck by a musket ball during the June 1780 revolutionary war battle of Springfield.
Sources
Book: The Halstead and Ogden Families by Elizabeth Ross King, 1896, New York
Family Search
ancestry.com

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