Revision history for LawrenceUpdike
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Lawrence appears to have been prosperous. His father and sons were large land-holders, and there is reason to believe that he was also. He was the highest bidder at the Maidenhead town meeting in 1730 for the 100 acre town lot. The absence of recorded conveyances to or from him is explained by the fact that in those days deeds were not generally recorded, but were preserved in old chests.
Lawrence was the author of the Updike spelling in New Jersey, and was the ancestor of almost every New Jersey Updike, excepting the Virginia branch. The will of his father, Johannes Opdyck, appointing him one of the executors, spelled his name with an 0; upon the back of the will, where was written the executors oath, his name appears in a clear hand as "Lawrence Opdyck; " but he signed this oath, "Lowrance Updick." In his own will of 1745, his name and those of his three sons are spelled "Updike," and his descendants have ever since so written their names.
Lawrence in his will mentioned a possible defect in the title to some of his lands,-" So as to be taken away By Law By Cox or any other pearson." This doubtless refers to a long and famous litigation concerning the title to all the lands in Hopewell. In the division of West Jersey into one hundred parts among the Proprietors, the tract called the "30,000 acres above the Falls of the Delaware" fell to Thomas Sadler and Edward Billinge. They sold it in 1685 to Dr. Daniel Coxe of London. This was the original township of Hopewell. The region had been fairly purchased from the Indians for Dr. Coxe by treaty of 30 Mch. 1688, for 100 fathoms of wampum, 30 guns, 20 kettles, 20 shirts, 80 hatchets, 100 knives, 300 pipes, 300 needles, and various other articles. Coxe was governor of West Jersey from 1687 to 1690, but conducted his office by deputy. In 1691 he conveyed the government to the " West Jersey Society." In 1700, " on the petition. of some of the inhabitants above the Falls for a new township, to be called Hopewell," that township was set off, containing the 30,000 acres and also a 10,000 acre tract of the Society,-including what are now Ewing and Trenton townships. The West Jersey Society, through their agent Thos. Revell, had made various conveyances to settlers, when Coxe claimed that he had parted with only the jurisdiction and not the title of the land. We find that there was some agreement made in April 1703, between Coxe and those that had then purchased, which was ratified at the meeting at house of Ralph Hunt, 26 Aug. 1703, mentioned under Johannes Opdyck. Further difficulties arose, and in 1731 fifty Hopewell landholders signed an agreement binding themselves mutually to defend their rights against ejectment suits brought by Col. Coxe. The contest continued many years; the cases were removed, on account of alleged prejudice in favor of the occupants from Hunterdon to Burlington County, where they were tried by Chief Justice Hooper and a jury of Quakers, and a verdict was rendered for Coxe The defendants made an unsuccessful appeal to the Court of Errors. This litigation was the great event of the period; the records of the case may be found in the archives of the N. J. Supreme Court. Although successful Coxe seems to have finally compromised his claims, as most of the defendants remained on their farms, some of which are still held by their descendants.
Born about 1708; married 1738 Mary Bragaw of Newtown, Long Island; died 1790; was a farmer near Cherry Valley a few miles north of Princeton, N. J., in what was then called "the Western Precinct" or Hillsborough, later Montgomery township in Somerset County, and now Princeton township in Mercer County.
The records show: that he was the second son and executor of his father Lawrence (1748) but did not act as executor; that he brought a suit in Hunterdon in 1730; resided in Maidenhead township (where his father lived) in 1730, 2, 4; owned a large tract of land in Somerset Co., north of Princeton, in 1744, 1763, and 1764, through which three roads were laid out; was a landholder in Hillsborough township near Princeton in 1750, and in the same township in 1758 and 1763; his tract of land north of Princeton in 1765 was of sufficient importance to be a landmark in a map of the Middlesex and Somerset County Line, although not adjoining it; he traded at Princeton in 1767-8; made his will in 1783 in Somerset Co., and there died in 1790.
The large tract of land, so often above mentioned, was evidently just south of Cherry Valley in Somerset Co., and near the eastern line of Maidenhead and Hopewell townships of Hunterdon Co. He therefore settled and remained almost 50 years only a few miles away from his father's home in Maidenhead, and his tract probably adjoined and possibly included the land , on Stony Brook in Maidenhead, owned by his grandfather Johannes Opdyck. In the List of Marriage Bonds issued by the Secretary of the State of N. Y., published officially, Vol. 1, 69, appears the marriage of John Updike and Mary Bragaw of Newtown, Long Island, May 11, 1738. In Riker's Annals of Newtown, L. I., we find that the Bragaw family of Newtown were descended from Bourgon Broudard, a French Huguenot exile who fled from persecution in France to Manheim and thence came with his wife Catherine Lefebre in 1675 to Bushwick, Long Island. He and his wife were among the earliest members of the French Church in New York; in 1688 they moved to Dutch gills near Newtown and purchased there a large tract of land. Their son Isaac Bragaw, born 1676, was taught the trade of a weaver, acquired considerable property at Dutch gills, bought his father's farm in 1713, was a prominent supporter of the Dutch Church, and died 1757, aged 81. His will, on record in N. Y. City Surrogate's Office, mentions his daughter Mary as the wife of "Johannes Opdyke," almost the spelling of the old Johannes Opdyck, who had formerly been a close neighbor of the Broucard or Bragaw family in Newtown, instead of the spelling which the grandson John Updike always used. Isaac Bragaw had, beside Mary, children named Isaac, Peter, Ruloff, and Bergoon ; the last was a very tall and strong man and Captain of the Newtown Militia. John Updike may have came back to his grandfather's old home at Newtown to seek a wife for his great plantation in the Jersey wilderness; or he may have met Mary at the houses of her uncles who all moved to Somerset, N. J., where their descendants are now the well-known Brokaws. It should be a subject of pride for the descendants of John Updike that they have in their veins such excellent Huguenot blood. John named his first son Lawrence for his father according to the time-honored custom; and then named four sons for his wife's brothers mentioned above.
In many ways John Updike is an interesting figure. His descendants have been so numerous as to make him the ancestor of more than half the Updikes in America. He forms a midway mark in the emigration of his line to and from New Jersey. In 1697 his grandfather Johannes Opdyck came from Long Island with children and grandchildren in wagons to the richer land of the primeval forests of West Jersey, and there John was born, lived and died; almost precisely a century later, five of John's sons took up the march from New Jersey with their children and grandchildren in covered wagons back again to yet richer lands in New York State, but this time it was to the magnificent Lake Country, recently made safe for settlers by Gen. Sullivan's terrible punishment of the savages of the Five Nations during the Revolution.
Lawrence was the author of the Updike spelling in New Jersey, and was the ancestor of almost every New Jersey Updike, excepting the Virginia branch. The will of his father, Johannes Opdyck, appointing him one of the executors, spelled his name with an 0; upon the back of the will, where was written the executors oath, his name appears in a clear hand as "Lawrence Opdyck; " but he signed this oath, "Lowrance Updick." In his own will of 1745, his name and those of his three sons are spelled "Updike," and his descendants have ever since so written their names.
Lawrence in his will mentioned a possible defect in the title to some of his lands,-" So as to be taken away By Law By Cox or any other pearson." This doubtless refers to a long and famous litigation concerning the title to all the lands in Hopewell. In the division of West Jersey into one hundred parts among the Proprietors, the tract called the "30,000 acres above the Falls of the Delaware" fell to Thomas Sadler and Edward Billinge. They sold it in 1685 to Dr. Daniel Coxe of London. This was the original township of Hopewell. The region had been fairly purchased from the Indians for Dr. Coxe by treaty of 30 Mch. 1688, for 100 fathoms of wampum, 30 guns, 20 kettles, 20 shirts, 80 hatchets, 100 knives, 300 pipes, 300 needles, and various other articles. Coxe was governor of West Jersey from 1687 to 1690, but conducted his office by deputy. In 1691 he conveyed the government to the " West Jersey Society." In 1700, " on the petition. of some of the inhabitants above the Falls for a new township, to be called Hopewell," that township was set off, containing the 30,000 acres and also a 10,000 acre tract of the Society,-including what are now Ewing and Trenton townships. The West Jersey Society, through their agent Thos. Revell, had made various conveyances to settlers, when Coxe claimed that he had parted with only the jurisdiction and not the title of the land. We find that there was some agreement made in April 1703, between Coxe and those that had then purchased, which was ratified at the meeting at house of Ralph Hunt, 26 Aug. 1703, mentioned under Johannes Opdyck. Further difficulties arose, and in 1731 fifty Hopewell landholders signed an agreement binding themselves mutually to defend their rights against ejectment suits brought by Col. Coxe. The contest continued many years; the cases were removed, on account of alleged prejudice in favor of the occupants from Hunterdon to Burlington County, where they were tried by Chief Justice Hooper and a jury of Quakers, and a verdict was rendered for Coxe The defendants made an unsuccessful appeal to the Court of Errors. This litigation was the great event of the period; the records of the case may be found in the archives of the N. J. Supreme Court. Although successful Coxe seems to have finally compromised his claims, as most of the defendants remained on their farms, some of which are still held by their descendants.
Born about 1708; married 1738 Mary Bragaw of Newtown, Long Island; died 1790; was a farmer near Cherry Valley a few miles north of Princeton, N. J., in what was then called "the Western Precinct" or Hillsborough, later Montgomery township in Somerset County, and now Princeton township in Mercer County.
The records show: that he was the second son and executor of his father Lawrence (1748) but did not act as executor; that he brought a suit in Hunterdon in 1730; resided in Maidenhead township (where his father lived) in 1730, 2, 4; owned a large tract of land in Somerset Co., north of Princeton, in 1744, 1763, and 1764, through which three roads were laid out; was a landholder in Hillsborough township near Princeton in 1750, and in the same township in 1758 and 1763; his tract of land north of Princeton in 1765 was of sufficient importance to be a landmark in a map of the Middlesex and Somerset County Line, although not adjoining it; he traded at Princeton in 1767-8; made his will in 1783 in Somerset Co., and there died in 1790.
The large tract of land, so often above mentioned, was evidently just south of Cherry Valley in Somerset Co., and near the eastern line of Maidenhead and Hopewell townships of Hunterdon Co. He therefore settled and remained almost 50 years only a few miles away from his father's home in Maidenhead, and his tract probably adjoined and possibly included the land , on Stony Brook in Maidenhead, owned by his grandfather Johannes Opdyck. In the List of Marriage Bonds issued by the Secretary of the State of N. Y., published officially, Vol. 1, 69, appears the marriage of John Updike and Mary Bragaw of Newtown, Long Island, May 11, 1738. In Riker's Annals of Newtown, L. I., we find that the Bragaw family of Newtown were descended from Bourgon Broudard, a French Huguenot exile who fled from persecution in France to Manheim and thence came with his wife Catherine Lefebre in 1675 to Bushwick, Long Island. He and his wife were among the earliest members of the French Church in New York; in 1688 they moved to Dutch gills near Newtown and purchased there a large tract of land. Their son Isaac Bragaw, born 1676, was taught the trade of a weaver, acquired considerable property at Dutch gills, bought his father's farm in 1713, was a prominent supporter of the Dutch Church, and died 1757, aged 81. His will, on record in N. Y. City Surrogate's Office, mentions his daughter Mary as the wife of "Johannes Opdyke," almost the spelling of the old Johannes Opdyck, who had formerly been a close neighbor of the Broucard or Bragaw family in Newtown, instead of the spelling which the grandson John Updike always used. Isaac Bragaw had, beside Mary, children named Isaac, Peter, Ruloff, and Bergoon ; the last was a very tall and strong man and Captain of the Newtown Militia. John Updike may have came back to his grandfather's old home at Newtown to seek a wife for his great plantation in the Jersey wilderness; or he may have met Mary at the houses of her uncles who all moved to Somerset, N. J., where their descendants are now the well-known Brokaws. It should be a subject of pride for the descendants of John Updike that they have in their veins such excellent Huguenot blood. John named his first son Lawrence for his father according to the time-honored custom; and then named four sons for his wife's brothers mentioned above.
In many ways John Updike is an interesting figure. His descendants have been so numerous as to make him the ancestor of more than half the Updikes in America. He forms a midway mark in the emigration of his line to and from New Jersey. In 1697 his grandfather Johannes Opdyck came from Long Island with children and grandchildren in wagons to the richer land of the primeval forests of West Jersey, and there John was born, lived and died; almost precisely a century later, five of John's sons took up the march from New Jersey with their children and grandchildren in covered wagons back again to yet richer lands in New York State, but this time it was to the magnificent Lake Country, recently made safe for settlers by Gen. Sullivan's terrible punishment of the savages of the Five Nations during the Revolution.
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Lawrence was the author of the Updike spelling in New Jersey, and was the ancestor of almost every New Jersey Updike, excepting the Virginia branch. The will of his father, Johannes Opdykk, appointing him one of the executors, spelled his name with an 0; upon the back of the will, where was written the executors oath, his name appears in a clear hand as "Lawrence Opdykk; " but he signed this oath, "Lowrance Updick." In his own will of 1745, his name and those of his three sons are spelled "Updike," and his descendants have ever since so written their names.
Lawrence in his will mentioned a possible defect in the title to some of his lands,-" So as to be taken away By Law By Cox or any other pearson." This doubtless refers to a long and famous litigation concerning the title to all the lands in Hopewell. In the division of West Jersey into one hundred parts among the Proprietors, the tract called the "30,000 acres above the Falls of the Delaware" fell to Thomas Sadler and Edward Billinge. They sold it in 1685 to Dr. Daniel Coxe of London. This was the original township of Hopewell. The region had been fairly purchased from the Indians for Dr. Coxe by treaty of 30 Mch. 1688, for 100 fathoms of wampum, 30 guns, 20 kettles, 20 shirts, 80 hatchets, 100 knives, 300 pipes, 300 needles, and various other articles. Coxe was governor of West Jersey from 1687 to 1690, but conducted his office by deputy. In 1691 he conveyed the government to the " West Jersey Society." In 1700, " on the petition. of some of the inhabitants above the Falls for a new township, to be called Hopewell," that township was set off, containing the 30,000 acres and also a 10,000 acre tract of the Society,-including what are now Ewing and Trenton townships. The West Jersey Society, through their agent Thos. Revell, had made various conveyances to settlers, when Coxe claimed that he had parted with onlythe jurisdiction and not the title of the land. We find that there was some agreement made in April 1703, between Coxe and those that had then purchased, which was ratified at the meeting at house of Ralph Hunt, 26 Aug. 1703, mentioned under Johannes Opdyck. Further difficulties arose, and in 1731 fifty Hopewell landholders signed an agreement binding themselves mutually to defend their rights against ejectment suits brought by Col. Coxe. The contest continued many years; the cases were removed, on account of alleged prejudice in favor of the occupants from Hunterdon to Burlington County, where they were tried by Chief Justice Hooper and a jury of Quakers, and a verdict was rendered for Coxe The defendants made an unsuccessful appeal to the Court of Errors. This litigation was the great event of the period; the records of the case may be found in the archives of the N. J. Supreme Court. Although successful Coxe seems to have finally compromised his claims, as most of the defendants remained on their farms, some of which are still held by their descendants.
Born about 1708; married 1738 Mary Bragaw of Newtown, Long Island; died 1790 ; was a farmer near Cherry Valley a few miles north of Princeton, N. J., in what was then called " the Western Precinct " or Hillsborough, later Montgomery township in Somerset County, and now Princeton township in Mercer County.
The records show : that he was the second son and executor of his father Lawrence (1748) but did not act as executor; that he brought a suit in Hunterdon in 1730 ; resided in Maidenhead township (where his father lived) in 1730, 2, 4; owned a large tract of land in Somerset Co., north of Princeton, in 1744, 1763, and 1764, through which three roads were laid out; was a landholder in Hillsborough township near Princeton in 1750, and in the same township in 1758 and 1763 ; his tract of land north of Princeton in 1765 was of sufficient importance to be a landmark in a map of the Middlesex and Somerset County Line, although not adjoining it ; he traded at Princeton in 1767-8 ; made his will in 1783 in Somerset Co., and there died in 1790.
The large tract of land, so often above mentioned, was evidently just south of Cherry Valley in Somerset Co., and near the eastern line of Maidenhead and Hopewell townships of Hunterdon Co. He therefore settled and remained almost 50 years only a few miles away from his father's home in Maidenhead, and his tract probably adjoined and possibly included the land , on Stony Brook in Maidenhead, owned by his grandfather Johannes Opdyck. In the List of Marriage Bonds issued by the Secretary of the State of N. Y., published officially, Vol. 1, 69, appears the marriage of John Updike and Mary Bragaw of Newtown, Long Island, May 11, 1738. In Riker's Annals of Newtown, L. I., we find that the Bragaw family of Newtown were descended from Bourgon Broudard, a French Huguenot exile who fled from persecution in France to Manheim and thence came with his wife Catherine Lefebre in 1675 to Bushwick, Long Island. He and his wife were among the earliest members of the French Church in New York; in 1688 they moved to Dutch gills near Newtown and purchased there a large tract of land. Their son Isaac Bragaw, born 1676, was taught the trade of a weaver, acquired considerable property at Dutch gills, bought his father's farm in 1713, was a prominent supporter of the Dutch Church, and died 1757, aged 81. His will, on record in N. Y. City Surrogate's Office, mentions his daughter Mary as the wife of "Johannes Opdyke," almost the spelling of the old Johannes Opdykk, who had formerly been a close neighbor of the Broucard or Bragaw family in Newtown, instead of the spelling which the grandson John Updike always used. Isaac Bragaw had, beside Mary, children named Isaac, Peter, Ruloff, and Bergoon ; the last was a very tall and strong man and Captain of the Newtown Militia. John Updike may have came back to his grandfather's old home at Newtown to seek a wife for his great plantation in the Jersey wilderness; or he may have met Mary at the houses of her uncles who all moved to Somerset, N. J., where their descendants are now the well-known Brokaws. It should be a subject of pride for the descendants of John Updike that they have in their veins such excellent Huguenot blood. John named his first son Lawrence for his father according to the time-honored custom; and then named four sons for his wife's brothers mentioned above.
In many ways John Updike is an interesting figure. His descendants have been so numerous as to make him the ancestor of more than half the Updikes in America. He forms a midway mark in the emigration of his line to and from New Jersey. In 1697 his grandfather Johannes Opdykk came from Long Island with children and grandchildren in wagons to the richer land of the primeval forests of West Jersey, and there John was born, lived and died; almost precisely a century later, five of John's sons took up the march from New Jersey with their children and grandchildren in covered wagons back again to yet richer lands in New York State, but this time it was to the magnificent Lake Country, recently made safe for settlers by Gen. Sullivan's terrible punishment of the savages of the Five Nations during the Revolution.
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**[[MetteOpdyck|Mette Opdyck]]** ; **[[PeterOpdyck|Peter Opdyck]]** ; **[[PamOpdyck|Pam Opdyck]]** ; **[[OttoOpdyck|Otto Opdyck]]** ; **[[MetteOpdyck|Mette Opdyck]]** ; **[[AgnesOpdyck|Agnes Opdyck]]**
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@@**LAWRENCE UPDIKE (OPDYCK)**
[Grandfather of **[[AbrahamUpdike|Abraham Updike]]**]@@
[Grandfather of **[[AbrahamUpdike|Abraham Updike]]**]@@
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By LEONARD ECKSTEIN OPDYCKE.
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//Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land.//
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Mette Opdyck ; Peter Opdyck ; Pam Opdyck ; Otto Opdycke ; Mette Opdyke ; Agnes Updike
Catherine's family is a bit of a challenge to trace.
Catherine's family is a bit of a challenge to trace.
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======Lawrence Updike (Opdyck)======
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**[[TryntieOpdyck|Tryntie Opdyck]]**
**[[EngeltieOpdyck|Engeltie Opdyck]]**
Lawrence Opdyck (Updike)
**[[AnnetjeOpdyck|Annetje Opdyck]]**
**[[AlbertOpdyck|Albert Opdyck]]**
**[[JohnOpdyck|John Opdyck]]**
**[[BartholomewOpdyck|Bartholomew Opdyck]]**
**[[ElizabethOpdyck|Elizabeth Opdyck]]**
**[[AgnesOpdyck|Agnes Opdyck]]**
**[[EngeltieOpdyck|Engeltie Opdyck]]**
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**[[AlbertOpdyck|Albert Opdyck]]**
**[[JohnOpdyck|John Opdyck]]**
**[[BartholomewOpdyck|Bartholomew Opdyck]]**
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**[[LouisJensenTryntye|Louis Jensen Tryntye]]** and **[[Cyriqui|Cyriqui]]**
**[[LawrenceUpdikeJr|Lawrence Updike, Jr]]**
**[[LawrenceUpdikeJr|Lawrence Updike, Jr]]**
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**[[LouisJensenTryntye|Louis Jensen Tryntye]]** and **[[CyriquiUnknown|Cyriqui Unknown]]**
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**[[LourisJansenOpdyck|Louris Jansen Opdyck]]** and **[[ChristineStenclia|Christine Stenclia]]**
**[[LouisJensenTryntye|Louis Jensen Tryntye]]** and **[[Cyriqui|Cyriqui]]**
**[[LouisJensenTryntye|Louis Jensen Tryntye]]** and **[[Cyriqui|Cyriqui]]**
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======Lawrence Updike======
>>@@**Lawrence Updike**{{image url="http://updikeandpotter.com/images/LawrenceUpdike.jpg" title="Lawrence Updike" alt="Lawrence Updike" width="300" class="middle" link="http://updikeandpotter.com/images/LawrenceUpdike.jpg"}}@@>>b. 1675 (Newton, Queens, New York)
m. 1701 (Burlington, New Jersey)
d. 17 May 1748 (Maidenhead, New Jersey)
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Tryntie Opdyck
Engeltie Opdyck
Lawrence Opdyck
Annetje Opdyck
Albert Opdyck
John Opdyck
Bartholomew Opdyck
Elizabeth Opdyke
Agnes Opdyck
**[[AgnietjePost|Agnietje Post]]**
**[[JohnUpdike|John Updike]]**
**LAWRENCE UPDIKE (OPDYCK)**
(Son of Johannes, p. 154; son of Louris, p. 136.)
""[""Father of **[[JohnUpdike|John Updike]]**""]""
""[""Grandfather of **[[AbrahamUpdike|Abraham Updike]]**""]""
Born about 1675; died, 1748; married Agnes ......; was a planter in Maidenhead, N. J., near what is now Lawrenceville, between Princeton and Trenton.
The record of his baptism is doubtless among the missing registers of the early Dutch church on Long Island; he must have been born about 1675, as his father was born 1651, and Lawrence acted as trustee of the Maidenhead church farm in 1698. He and his wife baptised their son William, 1704, in the Dutch church of Raritan, N. J.; the pastor probably visited Maidenhead for the purpose, as the church building near Somerville was not erected until 1721, the same that was burned by the British during the Revolution. It is perhaps this record of baptism that led Dr. Messler, in his Cent. Hist. Somerset Co., to place Lawrence Opdyke among the heads of Dutch families from Long Island who settled along the Raritan; and this probably caused the error of the late Teunis G. Bergen, printed in a Somerville historical magazine in 1873, in stating that Lawrence was descended from Gysbert Opdykk.
Lawrence joined his father and brothers-in-law in subscribing at the Maidenhead town meeting in 1712 to the expenses of setting off Hunterdon County. The township elected him Overseer of the Poor in 1719, Overseer of Roads in 1719, and Commissioner in 1726, 1727, and 1729. The County Court records show him as Overseer of the Poor for Hopewell in 1725; this leads us to believe that his homestead may have been on the line between the two townships.
Lawrence appears to have been prosperous. His father and. sons were large land-holders, and there is reason to believe that he was also. He was the highest bidder at the Maidenhead town meeting in 1730 for the 100 acre town lot. The absence of recorded conveyances to or from him is explained by the fact that in those days deeds were not generally recorded, but were preserved in old chests.
Lawrence was the author of the Updike spelling in New Jersey, and was the ancestor of almost every New Jersey Updike, excepting the Virginia branch. The will of his father, Johannes Opdykk, appointing him one of the executors, spelled his name with an 0; upon the back of the will, where was written the executors oath, his name appears in a clear hand as "Lawrence Opdykk; " but he signed this oath, "Lowrance Updick." In his own will of 1745, his name and those of his three sons are spelled "Updike," and his descendants have ever since so written their names.
Lawrence in his will mentioned a possible defect in the title to some of his lands,-" So as to be taken away By Law By Cox or any other pearson." This doubtless refers to a long and famous litigation concerning the title to all the lands in Hopewell. In the division of West Jersey into one hundred parts among the Proprietors, the tract called the "30,000 acres above the Falls of the Delaware" fell to Thomas Sadler and Edward Billinge. They sold it in 1685 to Dr. Daniel Coxe of London. This was the original township of Hopewell. The region had been fairly purchased from the Indians for Dr. Coxe by treaty of 30 Mch. 1688, for 100 fathoms of wampum, 30 guns, 20 kettles, 20 shirts, 80 hatchets, 100 knives, 300 pipes, 300 needles, and various other articles. Coxe was governor of West Jersey from 1687 to 1690, but conducted his office by deputy. In 1691 he conveyed the government to the " West Jersey Society." In 1700, " on the petition. of some of the inhabitants above the Falls for a new township, to be called Hopewell," that township was set off, containing the 30,000 acres and also a 10,000 acre tract of the Society,-including what are now Ewing and Trenton townships. The West Jersey Society, through their agent Thos. Revell, had made various conveyances to settlers, when Coxe claimed that he had parted with onlythe jurisdiction and not the title of the land. We find that there was some agreement made in April 1703, between Coxe and those that had then purchased, which was ratified at the meeting at house of Ralph Hunt, 26 Aug. 1703, mentioned under Johannes Opdyck. Further difficulties arose, and in 1731 fifty Hopewell landholders signed an agreement binding themselves mutually to defend their rights against ejectment suits brought by Col. Coxe. The contest continued many years; the cases were removed, on account of alleged prejudice in favor of the occupants from Hunterdon to Burlington County, where they were tried by Chief Justice Hooper and a jury of Quakers, and a verdict was rendered for Coxe The defendants made an unsuccessful appeal to the Court of Errors. This litigation was the great event of the period; the records of the case may be found in the archives of the N. J. Supreme Court. Although successful Coxe seems to have finally compromised his claims, as most of the defendants remained on their farms, some of which are still held by their descendants.
Lawrence was however more identified with Maidenhead, where he is found almost continuously during fifty years, from 1698 until his death in 1748. Barber and Howe's Hist. Coll. N. J. states that Maidenhead was settled about 1700; the many records already quoted by us show that the Opdyck family and others were settled there several years earlier. The `Presbyterian church was established there in 1709, when the people of Maidenhead and Hopewell applied to the Presbytery of Philadelphia for pulpit supplies, and Mr. Smith was directed to preach in Maidenhead on his way to and from New England. Their first house of worship was erected at what is now Lawrenceville, where the earliest settlers were buried; on one stone in the churchyard can still be read 1713, but the names are mostly illegible. Rev. Jedediah Andrews administered baptism 1713-4; Robert Orr was ordained as pastor in 1715; Rev. Joseph Morgan was preaching there to the people of both townships from 1731 until 1736, when David Colwell was ordained. In 1769 Maidenhead and Hopewell were still served by one pastor, who divided his time between the church at Lawrenceville, the church at Trenton, and the old meeting-house at Ewing. There was a famous law-suit in 1778, when the trustees of the Maidenhead church successfully defended their title to the 100 acres conveyed in 1698 by the West Jersey Society to Johannes and Lawrence Opdyck, the Andersons and others, in trust for the inhabitants of Maidenhead "for ye Erecting of a Meeting House and for Burying grounds and School House." The church sold this farm in 1804; a few years later another 100 acres were devised to them by Jasper Smith for a parsonage farm, and this still serves for the residence and support of their pastor. The first Hunterdon County Court was held in Maidenhead in 1714, and from then until 1719 alternately there, and in Hopewell at a private house on what is now Front Street in Trenton. The court records at Flemington contain an entry, 5 June 1716, " Court adjourned to Meeting House, Maidenhead." The front of the present church at Lawrenceville, 45 ft. by 32 ft., was erected in 1764. Additions were built to its rear in 1833 and 1855, making the edifice as it now stands.
The growth of Maidenhead was very rapid from its first settlement till 1750, and it continually sent out settlers who colonized the northern Jersey wilderness. These pioneers are proudly claimed by their respective counties, without however the knowledge of their real place of origin. The old Maidenhead Town Book, rebound and labeled "Lawrence Town Records," has lately been deposited for safe keeping with the Mercer County Clerk at Trenton, and will be found a mine of genealogical information concerning families in all parts of the State. It has a still wider interest, for the stream of colonization in the early part of the last century seems to have flowed largely from New England and Long Island to New Jersey. The grandchildren of those that moved about 1700 to Maidenhead spread beyond the boundaries of New Jersey into the western part of New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia; and their children and grandchildren, in turn, have settled in Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana.
>>@@**Lawrence Updike**{{image url="http://updikeandpotter.com/images/LawrenceUpdike.jpg" title="Lawrence Updike" alt="Lawrence Updike" width="300" class="middle" link="http://updikeandpotter.com/images/LawrenceUpdike.jpg"}}@@>>b. 1675 (Newton, Queens, New York)
m. 1701 (Burlington, New Jersey)
d. 17 May 1748 (Maidenhead, New Jersey)
Parents:
Tryntie Opdyck
Engeltie Opdyck
Lawrence Opdyck
Annetje Opdyck
Albert Opdyck
John Opdyck
Bartholomew Opdyck
Elizabeth Opdyke
Agnes Opdyck
**[[AgnietjePost|Agnietje Post]]**
**[[JohnUpdike|John Updike]]**
**LAWRENCE UPDIKE (OPDYCK)**
(Son of Johannes, p. 154; son of Louris, p. 136.)
""[""Father of **[[JohnUpdike|John Updike]]**""]""
""[""Grandfather of **[[AbrahamUpdike|Abraham Updike]]**""]""
Born about 1675; died, 1748; married Agnes ......; was a planter in Maidenhead, N. J., near what is now Lawrenceville, between Princeton and Trenton.
The record of his baptism is doubtless among the missing registers of the early Dutch church on Long Island; he must have been born about 1675, as his father was born 1651, and Lawrence acted as trustee of the Maidenhead church farm in 1698. He and his wife baptised their son William, 1704, in the Dutch church of Raritan, N. J.; the pastor probably visited Maidenhead for the purpose, as the church building near Somerville was not erected until 1721, the same that was burned by the British during the Revolution. It is perhaps this record of baptism that led Dr. Messler, in his Cent. Hist. Somerset Co., to place Lawrence Opdyke among the heads of Dutch families from Long Island who settled along the Raritan; and this probably caused the error of the late Teunis G. Bergen, printed in a Somerville historical magazine in 1873, in stating that Lawrence was descended from Gysbert Opdykk.
Lawrence joined his father and brothers-in-law in subscribing at the Maidenhead town meeting in 1712 to the expenses of setting off Hunterdon County. The township elected him Overseer of the Poor in 1719, Overseer of Roads in 1719, and Commissioner in 1726, 1727, and 1729. The County Court records show him as Overseer of the Poor for Hopewell in 1725; this leads us to believe that his homestead may have been on the line between the two townships.
Lawrence appears to have been prosperous. His father and. sons were large land-holders, and there is reason to believe that he was also. He was the highest bidder at the Maidenhead town meeting in 1730 for the 100 acre town lot. The absence of recorded conveyances to or from him is explained by the fact that in those days deeds were not generally recorded, but were preserved in old chests.
Lawrence was the author of the Updike spelling in New Jersey, and was the ancestor of almost every New Jersey Updike, excepting the Virginia branch. The will of his father, Johannes Opdykk, appointing him one of the executors, spelled his name with an 0; upon the back of the will, where was written the executors oath, his name appears in a clear hand as "Lawrence Opdykk; " but he signed this oath, "Lowrance Updick." In his own will of 1745, his name and those of his three sons are spelled "Updike," and his descendants have ever since so written their names.
Lawrence in his will mentioned a possible defect in the title to some of his lands,-" So as to be taken away By Law By Cox or any other pearson." This doubtless refers to a long and famous litigation concerning the title to all the lands in Hopewell. In the division of West Jersey into one hundred parts among the Proprietors, the tract called the "30,000 acres above the Falls of the Delaware" fell to Thomas Sadler and Edward Billinge. They sold it in 1685 to Dr. Daniel Coxe of London. This was the original township of Hopewell. The region had been fairly purchased from the Indians for Dr. Coxe by treaty of 30 Mch. 1688, for 100 fathoms of wampum, 30 guns, 20 kettles, 20 shirts, 80 hatchets, 100 knives, 300 pipes, 300 needles, and various other articles. Coxe was governor of West Jersey from 1687 to 1690, but conducted his office by deputy. In 1691 he conveyed the government to the " West Jersey Society." In 1700, " on the petition. of some of the inhabitants above the Falls for a new township, to be called Hopewell," that township was set off, containing the 30,000 acres and also a 10,000 acre tract of the Society,-including what are now Ewing and Trenton townships. The West Jersey Society, through their agent Thos. Revell, had made various conveyances to settlers, when Coxe claimed that he had parted with onlythe jurisdiction and not the title of the land. We find that there was some agreement made in April 1703, between Coxe and those that had then purchased, which was ratified at the meeting at house of Ralph Hunt, 26 Aug. 1703, mentioned under Johannes Opdyck. Further difficulties arose, and in 1731 fifty Hopewell landholders signed an agreement binding themselves mutually to defend their rights against ejectment suits brought by Col. Coxe. The contest continued many years; the cases were removed, on account of alleged prejudice in favor of the occupants from Hunterdon to Burlington County, where they were tried by Chief Justice Hooper and a jury of Quakers, and a verdict was rendered for Coxe The defendants made an unsuccessful appeal to the Court of Errors. This litigation was the great event of the period; the records of the case may be found in the archives of the N. J. Supreme Court. Although successful Coxe seems to have finally compromised his claims, as most of the defendants remained on their farms, some of which are still held by their descendants.
Lawrence was however more identified with Maidenhead, where he is found almost continuously during fifty years, from 1698 until his death in 1748. Barber and Howe's Hist. Coll. N. J. states that Maidenhead was settled about 1700; the many records already quoted by us show that the Opdyck family and others were settled there several years earlier. The `Presbyterian church was established there in 1709, when the people of Maidenhead and Hopewell applied to the Presbytery of Philadelphia for pulpit supplies, and Mr. Smith was directed to preach in Maidenhead on his way to and from New England. Their first house of worship was erected at what is now Lawrenceville, where the earliest settlers were buried; on one stone in the churchyard can still be read 1713, but the names are mostly illegible. Rev. Jedediah Andrews administered baptism 1713-4; Robert Orr was ordained as pastor in 1715; Rev. Joseph Morgan was preaching there to the people of both townships from 1731 until 1736, when David Colwell was ordained. In 1769 Maidenhead and Hopewell were still served by one pastor, who divided his time between the church at Lawrenceville, the church at Trenton, and the old meeting-house at Ewing. There was a famous law-suit in 1778, when the trustees of the Maidenhead church successfully defended their title to the 100 acres conveyed in 1698 by the West Jersey Society to Johannes and Lawrence Opdyck, the Andersons and others, in trust for the inhabitants of Maidenhead "for ye Erecting of a Meeting House and for Burying grounds and School House." The church sold this farm in 1804; a few years later another 100 acres were devised to them by Jasper Smith for a parsonage farm, and this still serves for the residence and support of their pastor. The first Hunterdon County Court was held in Maidenhead in 1714, and from then until 1719 alternately there, and in Hopewell at a private house on what is now Front Street in Trenton. The court records at Flemington contain an entry, 5 June 1716, " Court adjourned to Meeting House, Maidenhead." The front of the present church at Lawrenceville, 45 ft. by 32 ft., was erected in 1764. Additions were built to its rear in 1833 and 1855, making the edifice as it now stands.
The growth of Maidenhead was very rapid from its first settlement till 1750, and it continually sent out settlers who colonized the northern Jersey wilderness. These pioneers are proudly claimed by their respective counties, without however the knowledge of their real place of origin. The old Maidenhead Town Book, rebound and labeled "Lawrence Town Records," has lately been deposited for safe keeping with the Mercer County Clerk at Trenton, and will be found a mine of genealogical information concerning families in all parts of the State. It has a still wider interest, for the stream of colonization in the early part of the last century seems to have flowed largely from New England and Long Island to New Jersey. The grandchildren of those that moved about 1700 to Maidenhead spread beyond the boundaries of New Jersey into the western part of New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia; and their children and grandchildren, in turn, have settled in Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana.
Deletions:
>>@@**John Updike**{{image url="http://updikeandpotter.com/images/JohnUpdike.jpg" title="John Updike" alt="John Updike" width="300" class="middle" link="http://updikeandpotter.com/images/JohnUpdike.jpg"}}@@>>b. 1708 (Princeton, Sommerset, New Jersey)
m. 11 May 1738 (Sommerset, New Jersey)
d. 1790 (Maidenhead, New Jersey)
Parents:
**[[LawrenceUpdike|Lawrence Updike (Opdyck)]]** and **[[AgnietjePost|Agnietje Post]]**
**[[WilhelmusPost|Wilhelmus Post "William"]]** and **[[AeltjeTeuniseAlida|Aeltje Teunise Alida]]**
John Updike
Tryntie Opdyck ; Engeltie Opdyck ; Annetje Opdyck ; Albert Opdyck ; John Opdyck ; Bartholomew Opdyck ; Elizabeth Opdyke ; Agnes Opdyck
Willem Post ; Annache Post ; Barbara Post ; Ache Post ; Belitje Post ; Jannetje Post ; Elizabeth Post ; Teunis Post ; Echje Post
**[[MaryBragaw|Mary Bragaw]]**
**[[IsaacUpdike|Isaac Updike]]**
**[[BurgoonUpdike|Burgoon Updike]]**
**[[MaryUpdike|Mary Updike]]**
**[[RoliphUpdike|Roliph Updike]]**
**[[JacobUpdike|Jacob Updike (twin)]]**
**[[AbrahamUpdike|Abraham Updike (twin)]]**
**[[PeterUpdike|Peter Updike]]**
**[[JohnUpdikeJr|John Updike Jr]]**
**[[SarahUpdike|Sarah Updike]]**
**[[GysbertUpdike|Gysbert Updike]]**
**ABRAHAM UPDIKE**
(Son of John, p. 206; Son of Lawrence, p. 185; Son of Johannes, p. 154; Son of Louris, p. 136.)
[[Father of [[JacobAUpdike|Jacob A Updike]]""]""
[[Grandfather of [[AbrahamGroverUpdike|Abraham Grover Updike]]""]""
Born 1752, died 1827; married Jane Vandervort; was a farmer in Montgomery, Somerset (now Princeton, Mercer), N. J., and in Enfield, Tompkins County, N. Y.
The descendants of the four brothers, Burgoon, Roliph, Abraham and Jacob, who moved together to Tompkins County, N. Y., all remember Abraham as a twin brother of Jacob, and a brother of Burgoon and Roliph; and he is remembered as a brother of William and Peter by the oldest living descendants in New Jersey. The Family Record of a grandson of Jacob Updike shows
"Abraham Updike died March 12, 1827, aged about 75 years."
"Jane, wife of Abraham Updike, died Feb. 11, 1832, aged about 80."
Jacob also is said to have died in 1827, thus fulfilling the popular belief that twins die in the same year."
The records of the old Dutch Church at Harlingen, Somerset Co., N. J., contain an entry of the baptism of a child named Maria in 1775 by " Abraham Opdyke and his wife Jane; " the only entry of the family name on the books of that church. In 1777 Abraham Updike saw the horse of his brother Burgoon in the possession of a Continental officer, and testified to that effect in 1782 when Burgoon made his claim upon the Government for its value. In 1795 Abraham and John Jr. were witnesses for Jacob Updike of Montgomery township, Somerset, in buying a farm in Hunterdon County. These, and that in his father's will, are all the mentions which have been found of Abraham on the New Jersey records.
The date of the removal of Abraham and his brothers to the Lake Country is variously stated. A memorial notice of Abraham G. Updike, published in the Trumansburg Sentinel in 1881, says that Abraham G. was not a year old when his grandfather brought him from New Jersey; this would make the year 1800. A grandson of Jacob writes that Jacob and his twin brother Abraham moved together to Tompkins County in 1802. But the slight difference in date is unimportant.
Mr. Rensselaer Updike, of Schuyler County, N. Y., a great-grandson of Abraham, writes thus:
"My great-grandfather Abraham, with his three sons Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, named after the old patriarchs, came from New Brunswick or, Trenton, N. J., in company with other Updikes, and all settled near each other in Tompkins County. The place was called the Updike Settlement. My great-grandfather died m 1827, the year in which I was born. When the Updikes came in to this country, it was all a howling wilderness. They must have been of a religious cast, as the records show that they were among the first to build a church, which was of logs like their dwellings; the seats were made of slabs with holes bored for the legs. I remember going there in the days of my childhood, to meeting. In regard to the characteristic traits of the old Updikes of this State, they ranked among the best of farmers, but were not aspiring for rank or position. In stature they were above the medium height, many of them over six feet; square and strongly built, with regular features; of a gleeful, mirthful, yet go-ahead disposition as a rule, moral and religious."
Mr. Samuel Updike of Grass Lake, Michigan, a grandson of Abraham, writes:
"My grandfather Abraham and his two brothers, Jacob and Burgoon, In the Spring of 1802 when the four patriarch brothers, Burgoon, Roliph, Abraham and Jacob Updike, set out from New Jersey in teams and on horseback with their families, their flocks and their herds, for what was then known as the Far West, (soon to be followed by a fifth brother John Jr., and later by two sons of another brother Lawrence and a son of a seventh brother William, all to settle in Tompkins Co., N. Y.), the last covered wagon of the long procession brought a little grandson in his mother's arms, whom she had named ** ABRAHAM GROVER UPDIKE ** for his grandfathers.
