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ohannes Op Dyck, "born 1651, died 1729. He accompanied his father upon
his emigration to the new world, and subsequently was a planter at Dutch
Kills, Long Island, and in Maidenhead and Hopewell, New Jersey, deriving
therefrom a lucrative livelihood. He removed to New Jersey in 1697,
becoming the owner of two hundred and fifty acres of land above the
falls of the Delaware. In May or June of 1697 he moved his family in
carts and wagons, and settled in Lawrence township, near Lawrenceville,
and July 12 purchased thirteen hundred acres, extending one and
three-eights miles north and south and two miles east and west,
including the present site of the borough of Pennington, New Jersey.
While residing in Hopewell he, with others, founded the Baptist church.
His wife, Catherine Opdyck, bore him the following children: Tayntie,
married Enoch Andrus, a landowner in Trenton, New Jersey, who gave one
hundred and fifty square feet of land for the First Presbyterian church
of Trenton, long called Anderson Meeting House, April 10, 1727; she died
1741. Engeltie, married Joshua Anderson, of Maidenhead; she died 1741.
Annettie, married Cornelius Anderson, of Maidenhead; she died 1746.
Lawrence, see forward. Albert, born 1685, died 1752; he married
Elizabeth (???) and resided in Hopewell and Maidenhead, New Jersey.
(???), died 1730. Bartholomew, a resident of Maidenhead, New Jersey. "

SOURCE: Genealogical and Personal Memorial of Mercer County, New Jersey
under the editorial supervision of Francis Bazley Lee, Page 721.