Samuel Ogden

Colonel Samuel Ogden (December 9, 1746 — December 1, 1810) was a colonial businessman in New Jersey who had an iron works. He fought on the winning side during the American Revolutionary War. Afterward, he became a developer and land speculator for a large tract of land in upstate New York. He worked with his brother Abraham Ogden, brother-in-law Gouverneur Morris, and others on developing this tract. The City of Ogdensburg, New York, at the confluence of the Oswegatchie with the St. Lawrence River, was named for him. Early life Samuel Ogden was born in 1746 in Newark, New Jersey, one of five sons of David Ogden (1707—) and Gertrude (née Gouverneur) Ogden (1716—1775). His father was a noted jurist and a member of the supreme court for the royal Province of New Jersey before the Revolutionary War. Among his siblings were Sarah (née Ogden) Hoffman (who married Nicholas Hoffman and was the mother of Josiah Ogden Hoffman); Abraham Ogden (who married Sarah Frances Ludlow); Chief Justice Isaac Ogden (father of Peter Skene Ogden); and Nicholas Ogden (who married Hannah Cuyler). His paternal grandparents were Catherine (née Hardenbrock) Ogden and Col. Josiah Ogden, a direct descendant of John Ogden, who was known as "The Pilgrim" and was an early settler in New England who was an original patentee of the Elizabethtown Purchase, "the first English settlement in the Colony of New Jersey." His maternal grandparents were Isaac Gouverneur (brother of Speaker of the Assembly Abraham Gouverneur) and Sarah (née Staats) Gouverneur (herself a granddaughter of Abraham Staats).