Pane-Joyce Genealogy
Katherine Smith (2965) & Gysbert Opdyck (5879)
8531. Elizabeth Opdyck. Born ca 1644 in New Amsterdam. Elizabeth was baptized in New Amsterdam Reformed Church, on 27 Jul 1644.159 Elisabeth, dau. of Gysbert op ten Dyck & Elisabeth, witnesses Willem Kieft-Gouvneur, Cornelis Van Tienhoven-secretaris, & Hendrick Huygen. Elizabeth died in Kingston, RI between 25 Dec 1712 and 26 Apr 1716.464
Ca 1663 Elizabeth married George Wightman (14663) , son of John Wightman (5276) (ca 1597/8-ca 1669).464 Born on 4 Nov 1632 in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire. George died in North Kingstown, RI between 25 Jan and 1 Feb 1721/2.464 Occupation: tailor. Religion: Baptist.

George settled in Kingstowne, RI and was made a freeman there 6 May 1673.

For more on George Wightman and his descendants, see The Wightman Ancestry: including George Wightman of Quidnessett, RI (1632-1721/2) and Descendants by Mary Ross Whitman, compiled by Wade C. Wightman, Bookcrafters, Chelsea, MI, 1994.464
Their children include:
22706i.
Elizabeth Wightman (26 Jan 16[64]-ca Jan 1756)
22707ii.
Alice Wightman (9 Dec 16[66]-aft 1752)
22708iii.
Rev. Daniel Wightman (2 Jan 16[68]-31 Aug 1750)
22709iv.
Sarah Wightman (24 Feb 1671-1712)
22710v.
Dea. George Wightman (8 Jan 1673-between 1 Mar 1760 and 15 Jan 1761)
22711vi.
John Wightman (16 Apr 16[74]-bef 8 May 1750)
22712vii.
Samuel Wightman (9 Jan 16[76]-summer 1724)
22713viii.
Rev. Valentine Wightman (16 Sep 16[81]-7 Jun 1747)
8532. Lodowick Updike. Born ca 1646 in New Amsterdam. Lodowick was baptized in New Amsterdam Reformed Church, on 10 Jun 1646.159 Lodowyck, son of Gysbert Opdyck, witnesses Michiel Ter Oycken, Jean de La Montagne, Richard Smit, & Margariet Kalder. Lodowick died in Wickford, North Kingston, RI in 1737.5 Occupation: Planter.

Excerpts from Charles Wilson Opdyke’s The Op Dyck Genealogy, pages 85–93:5
    Lodowick Updike sas baptised June 10, 1646, in the Dutch Church of New Amsterdam, in the presence of his father Gysbert Opdyck, and of his grandfather Richard Smith and the fiscal de La Montagne who acted as sponsors. Three years of his infancy were probably passed at Fort Hope (Hartford) where his father was commander. His childhood and youth were spent at New Amsterdam in his father's house on Stone Street or in the house “next the City Hall,” and on Long Island about Hempstead and Newtown. The lad must have often accompanied his Smith grandfather and uncle in their sloop to the trading-house at Narragansett. He was eighteen years of age when the English seized the New Netherlands, and New Amsterdam became New York. ...
    At the age of 22, Lodowick is found at Wickford joining others in a petition to Connecticut, for the protection of that government. There had been much conflict as to the jurisdiction over the Narragansett country. In 1665 the King’s Commissioners had constitued that territory into a separate district under the name of the King’s Province, and it remained for many years a bone of contention between Connecticut, Rhode Island, the Marquis of Hamilton, and the Atherton claimants. The question was not decided in favor of Rhode Island until long afterward, and some of the boundaries were finally settled only in the next century when Lodowick’s son Daniel was Attorney General. At the early age of 25, Lodowick was appointed by the authorities at Acquednesitt, on a committee of twenty, with his brother Richard and the husband of their sister Elizabeth, to select a Conservator of the Peace to act with Richard Smith.
    ...
    [Page 87:]
    Lodowick is found continually on the Rhode Island and Wickford records, and must have been a man of prominence and energy. He was Lieutenant, Assessor, repeatedly Grand Juryman and on the most important Town Committees, and Deputy to the R. I. General Assembly. To attract settlers he laid out the town of Wickford and sold many lots. It has been supposed that the town derived its name from '”Lodo wick’s ford;” but this is an error, as Richard Smith dated a letter from “Wickford” in 1664. No new comer was allowed to settle except on a year's probation, and he must find some one to be security that he would not become a town charge.
Lodowick married Abigail Newton (8523) , daughter of Thomas Newton (ca 1612-bef 28 May 1683) & Joan Smith (2963) (-1664). Born ca 1654. Abigail died between 1742 and 1745.

Lodowick and Abigail were first cousins; their mothers were sisters.
Their children include:
22669i.
Richard Updike (bef 1691-1734)
22670ii.
Daniel Updike (ca 1694-15 May 1757)
22671iii.
Esther Updike (-1755)
22672iv.
Catherine Updike (Died unmarried) (-1782)
22673v.
Abigail Updike (ca 1700-1770)
22674vi.
Sarah Updike (-1770)
22675vii.
Marhta Updike (Died unmarried) (-1780)
8533. Richard Updike. Born ca 1648 in New Amsterdam. Richard died in Wickford, North Kingston, RI on 19 Dec 1675.

From The Op Dyck Genealogy, page 94:5
    Richard Updike as probably born between the dates of baptism of Lodowick and Sarah, 1646-1650. His baptism does not appear on the records of the Dutch Church at New Amsterdam, but it is known that some of these records have been lost. He may have been baptised at Fort Hope, where Gysbert was stationed between the above dates. The Rhode Island traditions place him positively as a son of Gysbert and a brother of Lodowick, James, Daniel &c. He was undoubtedly named for his mother's father, Richard Smith.
    Richard, like his brother Lodowick, moved to Narragansett, where he appears in 1671. On Dec. 19, 1675, he was killed in the great “Swamp Fight” fought between the one thousand soldiers of New England and all the Indians under King Phillip, and resulting in the annihilation of the savage tribes in Rhode Island. The colonists burned the Indian villages which might have sheltered them, and returned in the bitter winter weather to Richard Smith’s block-house, carrying their dead and wounded. Forty of the slain, including Richard Updike, were buried under the “grave apple-tree,” which is still [1889] pointed out in tlie grounds of the old “Smith Castle,” or “Updike Mansion,” at Wickford.
8534. Sarah Opdyck. Born ca 1650 in New Amsterdam. Sarah was baptized in New Amsterdam Reformed Church, on 23 Oct 1650.159 Sara, daughter of Gysbert op Dyck, witnesses Marten Cregier & Christina Capoens.

From The Op Dyck Genealogy, pages 94–95:5
    Sarah Opdyck was baptised Oct. 23, 1650, in the Dutch Church in New Amsterdam; the
sponsors were Martin Cregier, who was afterwards Burgomaster many years, — and Christina Capoens, who was a lady of some prominence and later applied for leave to form a village in the vicinity of the Wallabout. Sarah died after 1704, the year in which her brother Daniel bequeathed
“to sister Sarah Whitehead, cattle in the hands of brother Lodowick.” The same will, and also the will of her brother James in 1727, made large bequests to her children Richard and Sarah Whitehead, and mentioned no other children.
    Her residence after marriage, and the full name of her husband, are not positively known. No Whitehead appears on the Wickford records. At Hempstead, Long Island, where her father Gysbert owned land in 1655-7, there lived a Daniel Whitehead who had been one of the first settlers there as early as 1647, and who witnessed Gysbert's deed at Hempstead in 1655. It is quite probable that G-ysbert named his son Daniel for this friend Daniel Whitehead, and that a son of Daniel Whitehead married Gysbert’s daughter Sarah.
Children:
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Richard Whitehead
22715ii.
Sarah Whitehead
8535. Johannes Updike. Born ca 1658 in New Amsterdam. Johannes was baptized in New Amsterdam Reformed Church, on 16 Jan 1658.159 Johannes, son of Gysbert op Dyck & Catharina Smit, no witnesess listed.
8536. James Updike. Born ca 1658 in New Amsterdam. James was baptized in New Amsterdam Reformed Church, on 16 Jan 1658.159 Jacob, son of Gysbert op Dyck & Catharina Smit, no witnesses listed. James died in Wickford, North Kingston, RI in 1729.5 Occupation: Sea captain.

James moved to Boston by 1674, and was wounded in the Swamp Fight of 1675.5
8537. Daniel Updike. Born in New Amsterdam. Daniel died in England in 1704.5

Daniel was a mariner. He was captured by Algerine pirates 23 Jan 1680 and was ransomed by his uncle, Richard Smith Jr., by the payment of 1500 gunlocks. His will, dated 9 Feb 1704, proved Sep 1704, called himself Daniel Updike of St. Dunstans, Stepney, County Middlesex, mentions his sister Sarah Whitehead, nephew Richard Whitehead, nephew Daniel Updike, brothers Lodowick and James, niece Sarah Whitehead, Stephen Smith son of Matthew Smith, Elizabeth daughter of Moses Moyle, wife Martha.5
Daniel married Martha.
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