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Note: N4351 From The Op Dyck Genealogy by C W Opdyke:
Samuel J. Updike... "was a child in the Revolution and was carried away from the house by some straggling British soldiers as they retreated north after the battle of Princeton, going across his father's farm; they gave him up on being given something to eat. Samuel's marriage to Helena Grover in 1799 appears upon the records of Middlesex Co; she was a sister of Eliza and Theodosia Grover who married Samuel's brothers William and Levi. The Somerset Co records contain the following example of old institutions:
1838. 'Samuel Updike of Mercer, late Co of Somerset, certifies to the birth of the following children of his female slave Elizabeth Skillman, living in his family in Montgomery Twp John S. born 1817; Hiram S. born 1819; Azariah S. 1821; Pary S. 1827.'
The family bible of Samuel J. Updike, in the posession of his grandson Ebenezer Stockton, contains the family record. Samuel's wife died in 1848, aged 65. He died in 1855....Ebenezer had a daughter Ella, who married and lived in New York City."
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