Son of the mayor of New York, Cadwallader David Colden (d. 1834); he was admitted to the New York Bar in 1819 and visited England in 1840.

REFERENCES TO David Cadwallader Colden:

Charles Dickens to Samuel Rogers, 22 March 1842 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)