Elisabeth
(Elizabeth)
Wightman
formerly op ten Dijck aka Opdycke, op ten Dyck, op den Dyke, Updyke, Updike
Born about in New Amsterdam, New Netherland
Ancestors 
Daughter of Gysbert (op den Dyck) Op den Dyke
and Katherine (Smith) Op den Dyke
Sister of
Lodowick (Op Den Dyke) Updike, Richard Op Den Dyke, Sarah Op Den Dyke, Jacob Op Den Dyke, Johannes op den Dyck and Daniel Op Den Dyke
Wife of
George Wightman
— married
1663 in Kingston, Rhode Island
Descendants 
Mother of
Elizabeth (Wightman) Huling, Alice (Wightman) Waite, Daniel Wightman, Sarah (Wightman) Collins, George Wightman II, John Wightman, Samuel Wightman and Valentine Wightman
Died about
at about age 71
in Quidnessett, North Kingstown, Kings County, Rhode Island
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Biography
Elisabeth was baptized in the Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam on 27 July 1644, recorded as the child of Gijsbert op ten dijck (name often rendered as Gysbert op ten dyck). Witnesses were Governor Willem Kieft (director of New Netherland), Cornelis Van Tienhoven (secretary of New Netherland), and Hendrick Huijgen.[1][2]
Elizabeth's father, Gysbert (Gilbert) op ten Dyke (or "Opdycke" helped settle New Amsterdam (now New York City). He was an officer in the Dutch West India Company, and owned all of Coney Island and several other islands. He lived in New Amsterdam in the Dutch colony of New Netherland, years before it became the city of New York. His daughter Elisabeth married George Wightman in 1663, and they were among the earliest settlers of Rhode Island.
Elizabeth's mother was Katherine Smith. Her parents had married in New Amsterdam in 1643.[3]
Elizabeth's maternal grandfather, Richard Smith, once owned a large portion of Long Island, and also a trading house called "Smith's Castle" in what was then the wilderness south of Massachusetts. Later this area became part of Rhode Island. He leased a very large tract of land from the Indians for the period of 1000 years, payment to be "one red honeysuckle flower every midsummer's day, when lawfully demanded."
Elizabeth married George Wightman in about 1663, probably in Rhode Island.[4]
Elizabeth died about 25 December 1712. [5]
Elizabeth died between 25 December 1712 AND 26 April 1716 at Quidnessett, Kings County, Rhode Island [4]
Church Records
- Baptism
- 1644. den 27 Jul. Gijsbert op ten dijck. Elisabeth. Witnesses: de Hr. Willem Kieft, gouvneur, Corn. Van Tienhoven, Secretaris, Hendrick Huijgen.[1]
Research Notes
LNAB: If we are going to abide by the principle of being faithful to Dutch orthography, her LNAB is op ten Dijck, the name recorded for her father at her baptism. (The digraph "ij" is often mistakenly rendered as "y.") Smith-62120 03:07, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Evans, Thomas Grier. "Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York. Baptisms from 25 December, 1639 to 27 December, 1730." Collections of the New-York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Vol 2. New York: Printed for the Society, 1901. Page 17.
- ↑ Updike, Wilkins. A History of the Episcopal Church in Narragansett, Rhode Island, Boston, The Merrymount Press, 1907, p. 411 https://archive.org/details/historyofepisc01updi/page/n6/mode/1up
- ↑ Whitman, page 4.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Whitman, page 1.
- ↑ North America, Family Histories 1500-2000 citing "George Wightman of Quidnessett, RI 1632-1721/2 and descendants: Waitman, Weightman, Whiteman; Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 61157 #384527 for Elizabeth Updyke, bpt: 27 Jul 1644 New Amsterdam, Dutch (daughter of Gysbert Updyke & Catherine Smith); d: 25 Dec 1712
- "New Jersey, County Marriages, 1682-1956," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VW5P-QXR : accessed 08 Jun 2014), Elizabeth Updike in entry for William Collins and Sarah Wightman, 1697; citing p. , Gloucester, New Jersey; FHL microfilm 850324.
- "New Jersey, County Marriages, 1682-1956," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VW5P-QXB : accessed 08 Jun 2014), Elizabeth Updike in entry for George Wightman and Elizabeth Wood, 1698; citing p. , Gloucester, New Jersey; FHL microfilm 850324.
- Groton, Conn. 1705-1905, by Charles Rathbone Stark (http://books.google.com/books?id=SAoWAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false : accessed 06 June 2014) pg. 127
- Whitman, Mary Ross. George Wightman of Quidnessett, R I , 1632-1721/2, and descendants : Waitman, Weightman, Whiteman, Whitman, Whytman, Wightman, Wyghtman, Chicago, Illinois, 1939. Accessed on Ancestry.com at https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/384527:61157
- http://www.rootcellar.us/wightman.htm
- http://www.wightmanfamily.com/wgtgeorge.html
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998. Ancestral File Number 8WJT-SC
- Unsourced family tree handed down to Ken Lundgren.
- Ancestry Family Trees submitted by ancestry.com member Record Collection 1030
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Robin Lee
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Ellen Smith
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Ellen Smith
Teresa Downey
Steven Mix
Robin Lee
Updyke-56 and Op ten Dyck-1 appear to represent the same person because: while death dates are different, source added to Updyke-56 indicates that they are intended to be the same person
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Robin Lee
Can someone from the project please complete this merge?
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Ellen Smith
I did the merge. Actually, any pre-1700 member could have completed the merge of the nearly-unsourced orphaned profile into the PPP profile. After I had researched her records, determined the Dutch orthography for her LNAB, identified the Dutch spelling as her LNAB, revised the LNAB, and added PPP, it was ready for any pre-1700 member to complete the merge. (And after I had revised the LNAB, I probably mistakenly thought I had completed the requested merge. ;-) )
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Robin Lee
There is NO possible way that the parents are correct as they lived over 100 years before this person.
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Jeffry Johnson
This entry probably refers to Elizabeth (op ten Dyck) Wightman (abt.1644-abt.1716).
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by Jeffry Johnson
Ellen Smith
The Updike-407 profile was merged into this Op_ten_Dyck-1 profile earlier this year. There is no need to continue discussing the proposal to merge these profiles.
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C Platte
Updike-407 and Op ten Dyck-1 are the same people. Richard Smith's will I give ...the children of my dec'd daughter Katherine, sometimes wife to Gilbert Updike..George Wightman's uncle worked for Richard Smith.
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Ken Lundgren
Updike-407 and Op ten Dyck-1 appear to represent the same person because: Same birthday, same birthday, mother of Valentine.
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Rodney Bowers
Updike-407 and Op ten Dyck-1 do not represent the same person because: Too much differing information
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by Rodney Bowers
Teresa Downey
Updike-407 and Op ten Dyck-1 appear to represent the same person because: Op ten Dyck is in PPP profile. same birth date and location, same husband name (in process of merge), same son (in process of merge), similar death date, same death location
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by Teresa Downey
Steven Mix
Updyke-27 and Updyke-4 appear to represent the same person because: This is the same daughter. No tree conflicts. Thanks!
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