Uzal Ogden

Uzal Ogden (1744 - November 4, 1822) was an American clergyman, at first a member of the Episcopal Church and later as a minister of the Presbyterian Church. Early life Ogden was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1744. He was the son of Elizabeth Charlotte (née Thébaut) Ogden and Judge Uzal Ogden Sr. (-), an owner of the Ringwood Iron Works on Sussex County, New Jersey. His older brother, Provincial Congressman Lewis Ogden, married Margaret Gouverneur and his younger brother, Charles Ogden, married Hannah Gouverneur, both sisters of Uzal Jr.'s wife Mary Gouverneur. One of his sisters, Mary Ogden, married Peter Schuyler, son of Philip Schuyler and grandson of Arent Schuyler. Through his paternal grandfather Capt. David Ogden Jr., he was a direct descendant of colonist John Ogden. His maternal grandfather was Gabriel Lewis Thébaut of the island of Antigua. Ogden graduated from Princeton University in 1762. He studied theology in Elizabethtown, and then, going abroad, received at the same time both deacon's and priest's orders in the Protestant Episcopal church on 21 September 1773, from the bishop of London.