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About Lodowick Updike, Sr.
(IV) Lodowick Updike, the first born of Daniel Updike, attorney-general of Rhode Island, and his second wife, Anstis (Jenkins) Updike, was born at Newport, R. I., in 1725, died in 1804.
From History of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations: Biographical NY: The American Historical Society, Inc. 1920
Under the custom of his day he was educated under private tutors, studied law, but never practiced, devoting all his life to the care of his private estate. He became an eminent citizen of Rhode Island, and while his qualifications were such as fitted him for high position at the bar, in political or military life, he preferred the dignity and scholarly leisure of his private life of a landed gentleman. He owned five farms, 1500 acres, resided in Smith Castle, the Updike Mansion, near Wickford, which descended down to him through his father and grandfather from Richard Smith. To strong intellectual powers he added taste and attainment, entertained with an almost royal hospitality, and the doors of the Smith Castle were never closed to traveler of either low or high degree. In fact, his great delight was the entertaining of his numerous friends. He was a zealous adherent of the Church of England, and to his interest was largely due the erection of an Episcopal church at Wickford. In personal appearance he was tall and fine looking, always wore a wig, and small clothes, and was said to resemble George III, of England. He is interred in the family burial plot at Wickford, as are his wife and children.
He married, January 25, 1759, Abigail Gardner, of Boston. They were the parents of eleven children:
- 1. Daniel, a lawyer and attorney-general of Rhode Island.
- 2. James, died unmarried.
- 3. Anstis, married William Lee, and died on her one hundredth birthday; her memory is perpetuated in St. Paul's Church by a beautiful communion table imported from Europe, a century and a half ago.
- 4. Mary, married Nathaniel Mundy, a merchant of Wickford.
- 5. Abigail, married Joseph Reynolds, a farmer.
- 6. Sarah, married David Hagan, a mariner.
- 7. Lydia, married Frederick Cary, a merchant. 8. Lodowick, a merchant of Rhode Island and New York City.
- 9. Alfred, a mariner and merchant of Wickford.
- 10. Gilbert, a mariner of Rhode Island, who later went West.
- 11. Wilkins, of futher mention.
From Charles Wilson Opdyke. The Op Dyck genealogy, containing the Opdyck--Opdycke--Updyke--Updike American descendents of the Wesel and Holland families. (page 18 of 65)
We extract the following from a published sketch of " The Narragansett Planters," by Edward Channing, Ph. D.
"In the southern corner of Rhode Island there lived in the middle of the eighteenth century a race of large landowners who have been called the Narragansett Planters. Unlike the other New England aristocrats of their time these people derived their wealth from the soil and not from their success in mercantile adventures. They formed a landed aristocracy which had all the peculiarities of a landed aristocracy to as great an extent as did that of the Southern colonies. Nevertheless,
"these Narragansett magnates were not planters in the usual and commonly-accepted meaning of the word. It is true enough that they lived on large isolated farms surrounded by all the pomp and apparent prosperity that a horde of slaves could supply. But, if one looks under the surface, he will find that the routine of their daily lives was entirely unlike that of the Virginia Planters. The Narragansetter's wealth was derived not so much from the cultivation of any great staple like tobacco or cotton as from the product of their dairies, their flocks of sheep, and their droves of splendid horses, the once famous Narragansett pacers. In fine they were large — large for the place and epoch — stock farmers ..."
Lodowick Updike, the first born of Daniel Updike, attorney-general of Rhode Island, and his second wife, Anstis (Jenkins) Updike, was born at Newport, R. I., in 1725, died in 1804.
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Lodowick Updike, Sr.'s Timeline
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December 12, 1725
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Newport, Newport, Rhode Island
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May 12, 1761
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1784
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June 6, 1804
Age 78
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Rhode Island, United States
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1804
Age 78
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Ayrault-Congdon-Updike Lot Also known as: Rhode Island Hist. Cemetery North Kingstown #43, North Kingston, Washington , Rhode Island, United States
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