John Ogden (colonist)

Previous histories showing that he was born in Hampshire are unfounded and were the result of a fraudulent genealogy created by Gustave Anjou in the early 1900s.

[2] After arriving in the American Colony around 1640, he moved to Stamford, Connecticut, then called Rippowam, where he constructed a dam and grist mill.

In 1642, he built "the first permanent stone church in Fort Amsterdam," a Dutch settlement at the southern tip of what is now Manhattan Island.

In 1644 he relocated to Long Island, where "he established the first commercial whaling enterprise in America.

"[3] In 1665, he became a patentee of the Elizabethtown Purchase in present-day Elizabeth, New Jersey, where he lived until his death in 1682.