Abraham Ogden (December 30, 1743 – January 31, 1798) was an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 1791 to 1798 and negotiated the Treaty of New York (1796).

[1] His father was a noted jurist and a member of the supreme court for the royal province of New Jersey before the Revolutionary War.

[2] His brother, Samuel Ogden (1746–1810), served as a Colonel of the New Jersey Militia during the Revolutionary War, and was later prominent in the iron business.

[3] Ogden befriended George Washington, who often visited his family residence while the Continental Army was quartered in Morristown.

They intended to plat and sell it to new settlers; many migrants were entering the state from New England, and some men made fortunes in land speculation.