1783, Major Aaron Ogden, Patriot, N. J. Governor, Signed Revolutionary War Pay
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This is a wonderful, original document, dated 1783, a final payment from Timothy Pickering, Quartermaster of the Army to then Major of the Jersey Brigade, Aaron Ogden, for final payments due for forage. Document is 5x8, overall fine condition.Aaron Ogden (December 3, 1756 – April 19, 1839) was an American soldier, lawyer, United States Senator and the fifth Governor of New Jersey. Ogden is perhaps best known today as the defendant in ...;Gibbons v. Ogden which destroyed the monopoly power of steamboats on the Hudson River in 1824.In the American Revolutionary War, Ogden was appointed a lieutenant in the 1st New Jersey Regiment; his older brother Matthias Ogden was the lieutenant colonel. Aaron Ogden served in various roles through the war, seeing action and rising to the rank of brigade major.In 1778, he visited the house also occupied by the family of diarist Sally Wister, who described him as "a genteel young fellow, with an aquiline nose." He was wounded at the siege of Yorktown in 1781.Ogden was an original member of the New Jersey Society of the Cincinnati. He served as the Society's President General from 1829 until his death in 1839.Please view the other historical and Civil War related documents I'll be listing this week.SEE SCAN.I now accept PAYPAL but PREFER other forms of traditional paper payment. Buyer pays shipping(usually FREE within the US and $12 for International), payment must be received within 5 days.
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