sentences:  Ogden, with his brothers Thomas Ludlow Ogden and Gouverneur Ogden (1778–1851), developed through the Ogden Land Company huge tracts of northern New York state.Through their position as counsel to the Holland Land Company, David and Thomas Ogden influenced the settlement of Western New York, the construction of the Erie Canal, the determination of property law in New York, even political competition in the Republican party.Their company was succeeded in buying the majority of the Seneca Indian's reservation through the reported use of bribery and intimidation in August 1826.