Brief Life History of Margaret
When Margaret Opdycke was born on 20 February 1782, in Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States, her father, Thomas Opdycke, was 26 and her mother, Anne Cowell, was 26. She married Aaron Barcroft on 1 June 1800. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She died on 13 November 1858, at the age of 76, and was buried in Rosemont, Delaware Township, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States.
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- Margaret Barcroft in household of Aaron Barcroft, "United States Census, 1850"
- Margaret Barcroft, "Find A Grave Index"
- Ancestry Family Trees
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1783 · A Free America
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
1787 · New Jersey Plan
Also referred to as the Small State Plan, the New Jersey Plan was an important piece of legislation that William Paterson presented during the Constitutional Convention. The plan was created because states with smaller populations were concerned about their representation in the United States government. The New Jersey plan proposed, among other things, that each state would have one equal vote. This was in contrast to the Virginia Plan, which suggested that appointment for Congress should be proportional to state population. The Connecticut Compromise merged the two plans, allowing for two "houses" of congress: one with proportional representation, and the other with equal power from each state (as the New Jersey Plan had suggested).
1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of Dutch Opdijk, itself a fused (and shortened) variant of Op Dijk or Op de Dijk: topographic name for someone who lived ‘on (the) dike’, from Middle Dutch op ‘up, on’ + dike ‘dike’ (see Van Dijk ). The surname Opdijk or Op Dijk is no longer found in the Netherlands. Compare Opdyke , Updike , and Updyke .
History: Gijsbert Opdijk (also Gysbert Opdycke) was born in Wesel, Germany, in 1605 and arrived in New Amsterdam in New Netherland (now New York City, NY) before 1638. He was an officer of the Dutch West India Company and the Commander of Fort Goede Hoop (now Hartford, CT) in the 1640s. He was the ancestor of the American writer John Updike.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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