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- ELIZABETH OPDYCK (WIGHTMAN).
(Daughter of Gysbert Opdyck)
Was baptised July 27, 1644, in the Dutch Church of New Amsterdam in the presence of Governor Kieft and Secretary van Tienhoven, sponsors. Died before 1722. Married George Wightman, who appears to have been a man of prominence at Wickford, R. I., from the very earliest records of that Colony.
1673, May 6. George Weightman of Narragansett admitted freeman of Colony of R. I. and Prov. Plantations, at meeting of General Assembly at Newport............................ (R. I. Col. Rec. II 483)
1671, May 20. "Acquednesitt Court, calledRead commission from Gen. Assembly for holding this Court." George Wightman was among 13 who desired " to know whither or noe this Court on behalf of the Colony doe lay any claim to their possession, which they now inhabit; to which demand, this present Court doe returne unanimously their answer, that on behalfe of the Colony, this Court doe not lay any claime to their possessions which they now inhabitt." "The persons engaged at Acquednesitt by the Court," twenty in all, included George Wightman, Lodowick Updike, and Richard Updike. "These persons being engaged, were desired to nominate a person for to be the Conservator of the Peace, in jointe commission with Mr. Richard Smith and Mr. Samuel Dyre; and also a Constable." The persons selected by them were "solemnly engaged" by the Court as such officers .. (Same, 391.)
1722. Will of George Wightman, on the half-burned records, mentions his three daughters; Elizabeth (Ruling), Alice (Weight), Sarah (Peterson), to whom he wills household articles of "my deceased wife;" to a grandson "my chest which I brought from England; " to a son he devised 300 acres .............................. . (Wickford Rec.) George Wightman and Elizabeth Updike, his wife, had the following children, born between 1664 and 1681: Elizabeth, Alice, Daniel, Sarah, George, John, Samuel, and Valentine. (Austin's R. I. Geneal.) Some descendants of the above are still living at Wickford; among them is Mr. Chistopher Weightman, Warden of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and now having charge of its old records. Other branches of the family have changed their name to Witman, in other neighborhoods. The name Weight," of a son-in-law of Elizabeth, is now spelled Waite by his descendants. (Charles Wilson Opdyke, American Descendants of the Wesel Family 1889)
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The Back Rhodes of Our Genealogy
1644 - 1716 (71 years)
