Matthias Ogden
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Matthias Ogden was an American soldier and politician. He fought in the American Revolutionary War, and served in various political positions afterwards.
Detail from a painting by John Trumbull depicting Ogden (in red uniform) and Gen. Richard Montgomery
The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec, December 31, 1775 by John Trumbull (1786)
Elias Dayton
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Elias Dayton was an American merchant and military officer who served as captain and colonel of the local militia and in 1783 rose to become a brigadier general during the American Revolutionary War.
Matthias Ogden
…his mint in Elizabethtown. In the 1789 presidential election, Ogden was an elector for New Jersey. Ogden was married to Hannah Dayton, a daughter of Elias Dayton. They had a son, Francis Barber Ogden (1783–1857), who was named after fellow Jersey Continental officer and in-law, Francis Barber, who was married…
Brigadier General Elias Dayton, attributed to Ellen Sharples