Charles Wilson Opdyke
Published: 2015-08-05
Total Pages: 550
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Excerpt from The Op Dyck Genealogy: Containing the Opdyck Opdycke Updyke Updike American Descendents of the Opdyke and Holland Families Descendants of the Wesel and Holland Families This collection of records and recollections was begun three years ago to gratify my own interest, and has now so grown that its preservation requires this book. Beside the many members of the various branches of the family who have contributed valuable material to the work, the following antiquarians are entitled to my thanks for their kind assistance in matters relating to the colonial and revolutionary periods: Hon. Berthold Fernow, Keeper of State Historical Records at Albany; James Riker of Waverly, N. Y., author of Annals of Newtown; Van Brunt Bergen, of Bay Ridge, L. I., who has given access to the valuable unpublished notes of his father, the well known genealogist Tennis G. Bergen; J. O. Austin of Providence, the Rhode Island genealogist; William S. Stryker, Adjt. Gen. of N. J., the compiler of the Rolls of N. J. Soldiers in the Revolution; William H. Still well of Brooklyn, the historian of Gravesend; Dr. Henry Race of Pittstown, N. J., an untiring student of old Hunterdon history; Andrew d. Mellick, Jr., of Plainfield, a most successful collector of accurate information regarding colonial life in New Jersey; Mr. O'Gorman, the antiquarian Town Clerk of Newtown, L. I.; Hon. Charles D. Deshler of New Brunswick, N. J.; and William F. Wyckoff of Jamaica, L. I. My kinsman, L. E. Opdyeke, desires me to express his sense of obligation to the following gentlemen for their courteous aid in his searches in Germany and Holland: the Rev. Dr. Boelitz, Senior Pastor at Wesel-on Rhine; the Privy Counsellor Dr. Waldemar Harless, Director of the Royal Prussian Archives at Dusseldorf; Heer J. F. Bylevelde and the Baron Sloet, Director and Assistant Director of the Royal-provincial Archives at Arnhem, Holland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.