Excerpt from Kings College Alumni

Isaac Ogden was a member of the Ogden family of Connecticut, which emigrated to New Jersey from Long Island, to which they had removed in 1642. John Ogden received in 1664 a patent for the tract between the Raritan River and the Passaic River from Governor Richard Nicolls, which was subsequently ratified by Sir George Carteret. Two years later the country was settled by a large emigration from the old New Haven colony, the first settlers founding the city of New Worke or Newark. Isaac Ogden was a descendant of John Ogden in the fifth generation and a son of David Ogden, an alumnus of Yale College in the class of 1728. David Ogden had become the leader of the bar in New Jersey, and, in addition to being a member of the King's Council, he was in 1772 appointed a judge of the supreme court of New Jersey. At the outbreak of the American Revolution, David Ogden bade adieu to his home and sought refuge under the protection of the British in New York. Of his five sons, Isaac and two others joined their father, while the other two became officers in the American army.

Isaac Ogden, after graduating from Kings College in 1758, was admitted to practice in New Jersey and was already a lawyer of considerable prominence in Newark when the-revolution broke out. He had served as clerk of the Supreme Court and as a member of the Provincial Congress of New Jersey, and his legal ability was recognized by his companions. At the outbreak of the Revolu tion, however, he joined his father in New York and remained there under the protection of the British until the end of the war. Nor was he satisfied with mere neutrality. He was not only a loyalist, but an active and determined one. His father was a member of the board of refugees established in New York in 1799, composed of delegates from the loyalists of the different colonies and of which Governor Franklin was at one time president, and Isaac Ogden was equally active. Hamilton said of Isaac, in 1777, that he is one of the most barefaced, impudent fellows that ever came under his observation, and his letters to Galloway in 1778 bear testimony to the truth of this assertion.1907] Kings College Alumna.

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