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Birth:          19 Sep 1609 Bradley Plain, Hampshire, England
Death:          20 May 1682 Elizabethtown, NJ

Notes
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/historical/southernnewyork/s_ny_55.htm

(VI) John Ogden, the pilgrim, son of Richard (2) and Elizabeth (Huntington) Ogden, 
was born at Bradley Plain, Hampshire, England, September 19, 1609, where he 
married, May 8, 1637, Jane, daughter of Jonathan Bond.  He prospered and acquired 
property; and three children, two of whom were twins, were born to him in England.  
The name of the vessel in which he sailed for America is not known, but it probably 
landed at Southampton, on the southern shore of Long Island, early in 1640, as he is 
first mentioned as residing here, where, on April 17, 1640, he received a grant of land 
known as Shinnecock Hill, adjoining Southampton on the west.  He was a leader 
among the settlers in founding the town.  He later sold his "housing and home lot, 
etc." in Southampton, to a cousin of the same name in Rye, now Westchester County, 
New York and in 1642 was of Stamford, Connecticut.  In this same year he entered 
into a contract, in connection with his brother Richard, with Governor Kieft, to build a 
stone church in the fort at New Amsterdam; the cost was to be two thousand five 
hundred Dutch guilders, to be paid in cash, beaver, skins or merchandise.  Harassing 
warfare with the Indians retarded the work on the structure, but it was completed in 
1645.  This was the first church erected in what is now New York City, and stood for 
nearly a century, having been destroyed by fire in 1741.

          In 1644 the Dutch governor of the New Netherlands granted to John Ogden 
and five others a tract of land then known as the Great Plains, extending from the 
sound to the south shore and embracing a large portion of what is now the borough of 
queens, New York.  But the misgovernment of the Dutch and their cruelty toward the 
Indians repelled John Ogden, who was noted for his justice and humanity, and he 
returned to eastern Long Island to dwell again among his own countrymen.  In 1647 he 
obtained permission of the Southampton authorities to plant a colony of six families at 
North Sea, on the Great Peconic Bay, which afterwards was called Northampton.  
Here he established the whaling industry of Long Island, which remained until the 
discovery of petroleum in 1859, perhaps the most important source of wealth and 
employment to the inhabitants.  On March 31, 1650, he was made freeman of 
Southampton by the general council, and in the same year became a magistrate and 
town treasurer.  His written treaty with Wyandanch, sachem of Paumanicke or Long 
Island, and chief of the Shinnecock Indians, is still preserved. 

          After residing upon Long island for a period of twenty-four years the earliest 
settlers upon the eastern side of the island saw greater possibilities of material 
advancement by transferring their interests to New Jersey.  It is possible that they 
were strongly influenced by home affiliations and blood relationships, the Ogdens, 
Cranes, and Bonds being all Hampshire people, as was Sir Philip Carteret to whom 
extensive grants in New Jersey were made by the king.  In the summer of 1664, 
therefore, John Ogden and his fellow colonists visited what is now Elizabeth, New 
Jersey, purchasing from the Indians their title to the land, October 25 of the same 
year.  A month afterward a patent was granted them by the Duke of York for "the 
parcell of land bounded on the South by a River commonly called the Raritan River, 
on the East by ye Sea wch partes Staten Island and the Main, to Run Northwards up 
after cull Bay till you come to the first River wch sets Westwards, etc."

          John Ogden appears to have taken the leading position among the New Jersey 
settlers, and in 1665 took the oath of supremacy upon the restoration of Charles II.  
According to family tradition, he named the town in honor of his mother, Elizabeth 
Huntington; other tradition is that it was named in honor of Lady Elizabeth, wife of Sir 
George Carteret.  Governor Carteret constituted the Ogden settlement the seat of his 
colonial government, and in October, 1665, appointed John Ogden a justice of the 
peace; a month later he was appointed member of the governor's council and deputy 
governor, other honors following.  He was one of the commissioners who negotiated 
with the Massachusetts Bay Colony in regard to purchasing part of the Elizabeth town 
patent, and was also one of the commissioners who adjusted the boundary line 
between Elizabeth and Newark.  When New York was retaken by the Dutch in 1673, 
the official position of John Ogden was not disturbed although Carteret was 
overthrown.  By commission dated September 1, 1673, the Dutch generals and council 
of war appointed him Schout, or Burgomaster, of Elizabeth, Newark, Shrewsbury, and 
other settlements in New Jersey, and this constituted him virtually governor of New 
Jersey.  He was a man of more than ordinary mark, a true patriot and a genuine 
Christian.  He died at Elizabeth in May, 1682.  

          Little is known concerning his wife, Jane Bond, except that she was the 
daughter of Jonathan Bond of England; she was very probably a sister of Robert bond, 
her husband's intimate associate both of Southampton and Elizabeth.  In his will by 
which she was made administratix of his estate, John Ogden refers to her as his 
"Deare and beloved wife and soe hath been for above fowerty yeares". Children:  1. 
John, born in England, March 3, 1638, died November 24, 1702; married Elizabeth 
Phum.  2. David, born in England, January 11, 1630' will proved February 27, 1892; 
married Elizabeth (Swaine) Ward.   3. Jonathan, twin of David, mentioned below.  4. 
Joseph, born in America, November 9, 1642, died before January 15, 1690; married 
Sarah Whitehead.  5. Benjamin, born in America about 1654, died November 20, 1722, 
in his sixty-ninth years; married Hannah Woodruff.  6. Mary, born in America; married 
John Woodruff the second.


Parents
OGDEN [CHG FROM OKEDEN] Richard (15 May 1568 - )
HUNTINGTON Elizabeth (ABT 1571 - )

Siblings
OGDEN John (19 Sep 1609 - 20 May 1682)

Marriage To BOND Jane (1616 - 1682)
    m. 8 May 1637 Bradley Plain, Hampshire, England

Notes

Parents
BOND Jonathan (ABT 1580 - )
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Children by BOND Jane 1616 - 1682
OGDEN Jonathan (11 Jan 1639 - 3 Jan 1713)

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