Abigail Updike

Abigail — Joseph Reynolds. [Group Sheet]

Lodowick married Abigail Gardiner 1759. Abigail (daughter of John Gardiner and Mary Hill) was born Abt 1740; died 1826. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

The will of Abigail Updike, proved c1826, mentions: sons Daniel, James, Lodowick, and Alfred; daughters Anstis Lee, Mary Munday, Abigail Reynolds, Sarah Hagans, and Lydia Crary; granddaughters Abigail d/o Daniel and Abigail d/o Joseph Reynolds.

Notes:

"Daniel (died 1757) was in charge of the plantation [at Smith's Castle, North Kingstown, RI] between 1736 and 1757. Trained as a lawyer, he served as attorney general from 1722 to 1728; the fine furniture and clocks which can be seen at Smith's Castle date from his period of prosperity. Daniel Updike maintained contacts with Newport, and he was the first signer of the "Laws and Orders" of the cultural society which was the parent organization of the Redwood Library there."
(source: "The Rhode Island Atlas" by Marion I. Wright and Robert J. Sullivan, Providence: RI Publications Society, 1982, p. 148)

Daniel Updike, Lt. Col. and Aty. Gen. of RI, was baptized by immersion at St. Paul's Episcopal Church on 2 May 1730.

From findagrave.com:
"John O. Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, p 399: "The family burial ground where he was laid is at Cocumscusset...or Smith's Castle, near Wickford, for nearly two hundred years the seat of this family" (also see obituary, near the end of this biography). The birth year is an approximation based on the date of his first marriage and the sequencing of his siblings.

"Daniel was the son of Lodowick Updike and Abigail Newton of Kingstown, Rhode Island. He was married three times: (1) at Trinity Church in Newport, RI on 20 Dec 1716 to Sarah ARNOLD, b. 3 Nov 1698, d. 26 Jan 1718, the daughter of Benedict Arnold and Sarah Mumford. Sarah died in childbirth with their infant born and died in 1718. Sarah and infant are buried in the Governor Arnold Lot on Pelham Street in Newport. Daniel m. (2) 21 Dec 1722 Anstis Jenkins, b. 28 Oct 1702, d. c. 1744, the daughter of Richard Jenkins and Mary Wilkins; and (3) 14 March 1745 Mary (GODFREY) Wanton, the widow of William Wanton, and daughter of John Godfrey and Elizabeth Carr. Daniel had four children with his second wife, only the older two of whom survived childhood.

"Daniel was the Attorney General of the Rhode Island colony from 1722 to 1732, and again from 1743 to 1757. He studied under tutors 'at his father's house,' including the subjects of Greek, Latin, and French. As a young man he went to the Barbados, after which he studied law, soon moving to Newport. In 1729 he and three others were appointed to a committee to revise and print the laws of the colony.

"In 1730 he was a Lieutenant Colonel of the local militia, and that same year he was baptized in the Pettasquanscutt River by Rev. James McSparren. Also in 1730, he was one of the founders of the literary institution in Newport, later known as the Redwood Library.

"In 1732 he was nominated for Governor to oppose William Wanton, but lost. From 1741 to 1743 he was an attorney for Kings County (now Washington County), and during the same time he was appointed on a committee to revise the laws.

"His obituary, appearing in the records of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, under the rectorship of Dr. James McSparren, reads: 'Colonel Updike of North Kingstown, Attorney General of the Colony, died on Saturday the 15th of May, 1757, about noon, and after a funeral discourse was preached by Dr. McSparren, was interred in the burial ground of the family, beside the remains of his father and second wife Anstis Jenkins, mother of Lodowick and Mary Updike his surviving children.' "

The children of Daniel and Anstis were:

* Lodowick, b. 12 July 1725, m. Abigail GARDINER.

* Mary, b. 11 April 1727, m. Hon. John COLE.

* Gilbert, b. 9 May 1729, predeceased his father.

* Wilkins, b. 9 Mary 1729, predeceased his father.

Daniel married Anstress Jenkins 21 Dec 1722, Newport, RI. Anstress was born 1702; died 1744. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

He was "of South Kingstown" on 13 Dec 1739. I have estimated his year of birth and first marriage.

John married Mary Hill Abt 1722. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

"Lodowick Updike I lived on the plantation between 1692 and 1736. The name Wickford had been applied to the general area since 1664, but when Updike laid out the first house lots in the present-day village of Wickford, for a while the village was known as Updike's Newtown." (source: "The Rhode Island Atlas" by Marion I. Wright and Robert J. Sullivan, Providence: RI Publications Society, 1982, p. 148)

Excerpts from Charles Wilson Opdyke's The Op Dyck Genealogy, pages 85-93:
"Lodowick Updike was 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

Lodowick — Abigail Newton. Abigail was born Abt 1663; died Abt 1745. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Abigail Updike, wife of Capt. Lodowick, was baptized at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Narragansett/Wickford RI, on 11 Sep 1726 at age 63 (note: clinical baptism).

From Findagrave.com:
"There is no inscribed marker for Abigail in this cemetery, nor is there any record of her burial. However, her husband is known to be buried here, based on the obituary of their son Daniel, and Abigail was married to Lodowick for nearly 50 years, and died as his widow in this town. It is inconceivable that she would have been buried anywhere other than in the family cemetery near her husband. The birth year given is a crude approximation based on her probable year of marriage, and the death year is the year her will was proved.

"Abigail was the daughter of Thomas Newton and Joan Smith of New Amsterdam, Long Island, and Fairfield, Connecticut. She was married about 1690 to her first cousin, Lodowick Updike, the son of Gilbert Updike and Katherine Smith. Her mother Joan and her husband's mother Katherine were sisters, both being daughters of Richard Smith of Cocumscussoc (known as Smith's Castle), Wickford, RI.

"Abigail's will, dated 10 May 1742, and proved 8 May 1745, names daughter Catherine as executrix, and gives to son Daniel; to the seven children of her son Richard, deceased; to daughter Abigail Cooper; and also to her other three daughters Esther, Sarah, and Martha."

Notes:

William's parents were "of Narragansett, RI."

William married Abigail Remington Between 1696 and 1698, Newport or North Kingstown, RI. Abigail (daughter of John Remington, III and Abigail Richmond) was born 1681, Newport or Kingston, RI; died 6 Feb 1763, South Kingstown, Washington Co., RI; was buried , Historical Cemetery 36, Shermantown Rd., North Kingstown, RI. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

GARDINER Abigail, wife of William, of Boston Neck, bapt. at her sister Mumford's in Groton, CT, Nov. 2, 1731

The will of Abigail Almy, maiden name Remington, widow of Job Almy and previously widow of William Gardiner, was written 3 Apr 1762, and proved 11 Apr 1763 at South Kingstown, RI. The will was witnessed by Mary Chappell, Robert Stoddard, & Francis Willett. Abigail was the mother of Hannah (Gardiner) MacSparran, wife of Rev. James. (source note: RI Genealogical Register, Vol. 2, No. 3, p. 157)

The will mentions sons John & Sylvester Gardner, daughter Abigail Robinson, and the following grandchildren: Josiah Arnold, Anstis Robinson, Abigail Updike, Abigail Stewart, & Mary Dockray.

The date of 6 Mar 1763 is given for Abigail's death in some genealogies, but according to Jane Fletcher Fiske in "The Abigail Connection," that date of death belongs to another Abigail who married John Carr.