Born c.1687 in Newark, New Jersey, to David and Elizabeth (nee Swaine) Ogden, Swain Ogden was in his 68th year at the time of his death. On May 5, 1711 he married Maritje/Mary Ackerman, daughter of David and Hillegondt (nee Ver Planck) Ackerman, in the Dutch Reformed Church of Hackensack. The couple resided in Bergen County for about a dozen years, and the five eldest of their nine children--Elizabeth, David, Samuel, Hillegondt/Hulda, and Nathaniel--were baptized in the church where their parents had wed. By 1724 Ogden returned to the Newark area with his family, and four more children--Abraham, Sarah, Mary, and John--were born and baptized in the Belleville Dutch Reformed Church just north of the city, where he served as an overseer and Essex County freeholder.
April may well have been "the cruelest month" for Swain Ogden's family, not only for his passing in 1755, but for the "fearful pestilence" that had killed little Sarah, Mary, and John twenty years earlier. The epidemic, thought to be diptheria, claimed the lives of many children in the New England and Mid-Atlantic colonies during the chilly wet spring of 1735. By that time the Ogdens had settled farther west, where they were attending the Orange Presbyterian Church. The three youngest children were subsequently interred in its churchyard, as was Mr. Ogden after his death in 1755. Mrs. Ogden, who survived him by a little over a year, is buried beside him. His brown sandstone stele features a soul effigy of the winged death's head type in its tympanum, a symbol which was as popular during the early colonial era as it appears grim to modern eyes.
April may well have been "the cruelest month" for Swain Ogden's family, not only for his passing in 1755, but for the "fearful pestilence" that had killed little Sarah, Mary, and John twenty years earlier. The epidemic, thought to be diptheria, claimed the lives of many children in the New England and Mid-Atlantic colonies during the chilly wet spring of 1735. By that time the Ogdens had settled farther west, where they were attending the Orange Presbyterian Church. The three youngest children were subsequently interred in its churchyard, as was Mr. Ogden after his death in 1755. Mrs. Ogden, who survived him by a little over a year, is buried beside him. His brown sandstone stele features a soul effigy of the winged death's head type in its tympanum, a symbol which was as popular during the early colonial era as it appears grim to modern eyes.
Born c.1687 in Newark, New Jersey, to David and Elizabeth (nee Swaine) Ogden, Swain Ogden was in his 68th year at the time of his death. On May 5, 1711 he married Maritje/Mary Ackerman, daughter of David and Hillegondt (nee Ver Planck) Ackerman, in the Dutch Reformed Church of Hackensack. The couple resided in Bergen County for about a dozen years, and the five eldest of their nine children--Elizabeth, David, Samuel, Hillegondt/Hulda, and Nathaniel--were baptized in the church where their parents had wed. By 1724 Ogden returned to the Newark area with his family, and four more children--Abraham, Sarah, Mary, and John--were born and baptized in the Belleville Dutch Reformed Church just north of the city, where he served as an overseer and Essex County freeholder.
April may well have been "the cruelest month" for Swain Ogden's family, not only for his passing in 1755, but for the "fearful pestilence" that had killed little Sarah, Mary, and John twenty years earlier. The epidemic, thought to be diptheria, claimed the lives of many children in the New England and Mid-Atlantic colonies during the chilly wet spring of 1735. By that time the Ogdens had settled farther west, where they were attending the Orange Presbyterian Church. The three youngest children were subsequently interred in its churchyard, as was Mr. Ogden after his death in 1755. Mrs. Ogden, who survived him by a little over a year, is buried beside him. His brown sandstone stele features a soul effigy of the winged death's head type in its tympanum, a symbol which was as popular during the early colonial era as it appears grim to modern eyes.
April may well have been "the cruelest month" for Swain Ogden's family, not only for his passing in 1755, but for the "fearful pestilence" that had killed little Sarah, Mary, and John twenty years earlier. The epidemic, thought to be diptheria, claimed the lives of many children in the New England and Mid-Atlantic colonies during the chilly wet spring of 1735. By that time the Ogdens had settled farther west, where they were attending the Orange Presbyterian Church. The three youngest children were subsequently interred in its churchyard, as was Mr. Ogden after his death in 1755. Mrs. Ogden, who survived him by a little over a year, is buried beside him. His brown sandstone stele features a soul effigy of the winged death's head type in its tympanum, a symbol which was as popular during the early colonial era as it appears grim to modern eyes.
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"Here lies ye Body
of Swain Ogden
who Died April
2 0, 1 7 5 5
in ye 68th year
of his Age."
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