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months at Taunton, and then removed to New Amsterdam, where his daughter Catharine married Gysbert op ten Dyck or op Dyck, ofan old family at Wesel, in Westphalia, where owing to a sort of hereditary burgomastership, the records of their genealogy are traceable in the records of the town, from father to son since the fifteenth century. Smith subsequently removed to Narragansett, and died there, and the estate acquired by him passed into the hands of the Updikes, and remained in the family for about two hundred years. The town of Wickford was at one time known as Updike’s New Town, and is so inscribed in old maps. Mr. Updike came of a race of lawyers, his grandfather having been for twenty— five years Attorney—General of the Colony, and one of the first lawyers of the Colony; and his elder brother enjoying the same OHlCC. His father, however, lived a life of leisure. Mr. Updike was educated first at home, afterward at the Academy in Plainfield, Connecticut, which in those days had great vogue as a classical school. After leaving the Academy he studied law in the office of James Lanman, afterward Senator from Connecticut, and later in the oflices of the Honorable William Hunter, and the Honorable Asher Robbins and Elisha R. Potter. He was admitted to the Bar in 1808. He married September 23, 1809, and lived at Tower Hill, and later at Cocumscussuc, which his father gave him. Owing to becoming security for his brother Lodowick, he lostthis property in 1 8 14; a loss about which he felt so strongly that until the end of his life he avoided passing it, or speaking of it. And the name Lodowick, which had alternated with that of Daniel for many generations, has not since been used in the family. Occupied for many years in politics} and the practice of law, and sitting for a long period in the Legislature, he still found time to collect the materials for a vol— ume of sketches of lawyers of an earlier day, which he published in 1849., under the title of Memoirs oftbe Rhoda Bland Bar. He also amused his leisure hours by collecting the materials for the history of the Episcopal Church in the Narragan« sett country, in which for many reasons he was interested. His family had always been Churchmen, and benefactors of S. Paul’s parish, in which Cocumscussuc lay. The Rev. James MacSparran an S. P. G. missionary to S. Paul’s Church, Wickford, married his aunt, and many of his papers were in his possession; Bishop Berkeley had been the intimate friend of his grandfather, and was a con— neétion of his family, as was also Seabury, Bishop of Connecticut. This and his love for the history of men and families, his knowledge of the older state of society, in Which he had been brought up and of which he was a part, enabled him to do this work with real interest, and to do it as perhaps no one else could. The book was issued in 1847 under the title of Hirtory of the Episcopal Cbarc/o in Narragansett. It has long been a bibliographical rarity.

Mr. Updike possessed a large and very curious library which had been the ac— cumulation ofgenerations at Cocumscussuc. It contained some superb editions of the Greek and Latin classics, an enormous quantity of Anglican theological trea- tises, chiefly aimed against Methodists, Socinians and the Church of Rome, politi— cal pamphlets, law books, and a very interesting accumulation of letters and

papers.