138–139. Benjamin Opdyke of Hunterdon County, New Jersey was born in Dutch Hill, Long Island, New York, in 1721, and died in 1807. Joanna _____ was born in Dutch Hill about 1729. He is the son of Albert and Elizabeth (_____) Opdyke. They had six children:
| i. |
Mary Opdycke was born
in Bethlehem, Hunterdon County, New Jersey,
on May 21, 1742, and died
on August 10, 1801.
She married first _____ Reynolds who died; she married
second Obediah Campbell on September 1, 1763.
He was born July 2, 1740, and died March 26, 1819. Their nine children were
Benjamin, John, Hannah, James, Robert, Joanna, Obadiah, _____, and Albert. This information was written in 1832 by James, the fourth child, and provides one certain birthday in the Opdyke family. | |
| ii. | Albert Opdycke, (Capt.) was born in Bethlehem in 1750, and died in 1790. He married Martha Hendrickson. | |
| iii. | Margaret Opdycke was born in Bethlehem about 1752. She married _____ Farrow. | |
| iv. | Sarah Opdyke [#69]: She was born in Bethlehem Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, about 1754. | |
| v. | Joshua Opdycke was born in Bethlehem in 1756, and died in 1800. He married Mary Dusenbury. | |
| vi. |
Jane Opdycke was born
in Bethlehem
about 1758, and died
in Manchester, Adams County, Ohio,
about 1833.
She married Joseph Curtis. He was the elder son of Joseph and Anne (Watson) Curtis of Ogston, Mansfield Township, Burlington County, was born in 1749. He died at Paris, Edgar County, Illinois, in 1837 and was buried there. Their children were Joseph, Ann, Sarah, Diadama, Lydia, Elizabeth, and Rebecca. The National Genealogical Society Quarterly ... has more detail. |
The will of Benjamin Opdyke of Bethlehem Township, dated 22 October
1806 and proved 23 September 1807, ordered his moveable estate to be sold and
devised one tenth of the proceeds thereof "to my daughter Jane Curtis."