Jacob A Updike
Jacob A Updike
m. 13 Mar 1800 (Sommerset, New Jersey)
d. 1848 (Newfield, Tompkins County, New York)
Parents:
Abraham Updike (twin) and Jannetje Vandervoort "Jane"
Grandparents:
John Updike and Mary Bragaw
Michael Vandervoort and Marya Fonteyn
Siblings:
Maria Updike
Jacob A Updike
Isaac Updike
Abraham G Updike Jr
Elaine Vandervoort Updike "Leaney"
Charity Updike
Catherine Updike
Mary Ann Updike "Ann"
Peter Updike
Aunts & Uncles:
Via Father:
Via Mother:
Theodosia Grover
Children:
Abraham Grover Updike
Abraham's wife: Lorinda Hoos Hooper
Mary Updike "Polly"
Mary's husband: Jesse Coykendall
John R Updike
John's wife: Phoebe Hausner
Jane UpdikeEnoch Updike "Alexander"
Enoch's wife: Elizabeth Henry
Pierson Updike
Pierson's wife: Elizabeth Morgan
Jacob C Updike
Jacob's wife: Asenath Almira Rockenstyne
Elizabeth Updike
Elizabeth's husband: Samuel Osborne
Eliza Updike
Eliza's husband: Simeon Rose McKinley
Grandchildren:
NOTE:
Some sources site birth near Maidenhead (now Lawrenceville), New Jersey.
Leaney married her first cousin Gilbert, son of her uncle Roliph Updike.
Charity married her first cousin Jacob, son of her uncle Jacob Updike.
Catherine's husband, John Creque, was proprietor of a foundry at Trumansburg, Tompkins Co.
Abraham Grover was sent to his uncle John Creque's foundry at 16 to learn the blacksmith trade.
Historical Info.:
from:
THE Op DYCK GENEALOGY,
CONTAINING THE
OPDYCK- OPDYCKE - OPDYKE- UPDIKE
AMERICAN DESCENDANTS
OF THE
WESEL AND HOLLAND FAMILIES,
By
CHARLES WILSON OPDYKE,
WITH AN INVESTIGATION INTO THEIR OP DEN DYCK ANCESTORS IN EUROPE,
THE Op DYCK GENEALOGY,
CONTAINING THE
OPDYCK- OPDYCKE - OPDYKE- UPDIKE
AMERICAN DESCENDANTS
OF THE
WESEL AND HOLLAND FAMILIES,
By
CHARLES WILSON OPDYKE,
WITH AN INVESTIGATION INTO THEIR OP DEN DYCK ANCESTORS IN EUROPE,
By LEONARD ECKSTEIN OPDYCKE.
Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land.
PRINTED FOR
CHARLES W. OPDYKE, LEONARD E. OPDYCKE AND WILLIAM S. OPDYKE,
NEW YORK, 1889,
BY WEED, PARSONS & CO., ALBANY, N. Y.
ABRAHAM UPDIKE
[Father of Jacob A Updike]
[Grandfather of Abraham Grover Updike]
(Son of John, p. 206; Son of Lawrence, p. 185; Son of Johannes, p. 154; Son of Louris, p. 136.)
Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land.
PRINTED FOR
CHARLES W. OPDYKE, LEONARD E. OPDYCKE AND WILLIAM S. OPDYKE,
NEW YORK, 1889,
BY WEED, PARSONS & CO., ALBANY, N. Y.
ABRAHAM UPDIKE
[Father of Jacob A Updike]
[Grandfather of Abraham Grover Updike]
(Son of John, p. 206; Son of Lawrence, p. 185; Son of Johannes, p. 154; Son of Louris, p. 136.)
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.
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