Samuel Ogden (1746-1810)

He was the "source of the great losses sustained by the Gouverneur family" and more specifically the firm of Gouverneur & Kemble - see the notes on Peter Kemble. Endorsed by his first cousin, Samuel Gouverneur, the money lent to Ogden, "was spent in his famous Miranda expedition, undertaken in the year 1805 against South America, which ended so disastrously, and which was wound up by the hanging of ten Americans, selected from the prisoners by the Spanish authorities".