Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Wynkoop, Henry
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Upper Makefield Township


   HENRY WYNKOOP retired, P.O. Brownsburg, was born in 
Northampton township, Bucks county, January 16, 1809, and is 
a son of David and Ann (McNair) Wynkoop, the former a native 
of Northampton township, and the latter of Upper Makefield. 
Peter Wynkoop was the first of the name to emigrate to 
America. He was born in 1616, and came from Holland to New 
York in 1640, and settled in Albany, N. Y., in 1644. He was 
commissioned by the Patron to purchase land about the 
Catskills from the natives, and in connection with the 
commissary, General Curler, to recover land and other 
property which were alleged to have been purchased and 
misappropriated by Adrian Van der Donck, a former agent.  
Judge Henry Wynkoop, a descendant of the above, was born 
March 2, 1737. He was a lieutenant of the revolutionary war, 
and was associate judge of the common pleas court of Bucks 
county. He resigned the eldership of his church in 
Northampton and Southampton townships because of his absence 
while in congress. He died March 25, 1816. Gerardus, the 
grandfather of the present Henry Wynkoop, made a settlement 
in Northampton township in the latter part of the eighteenth 
century, and there lived until his death. He was a farmer by 
occupation. His son, David, father of Henry, was also a 
farmer. He represented Bucks county in the legislature six 
successive years, and in 1836 emigrated to Licking county, 
O., where he died in 1842. He was the father of seven 
children:  Elizabeth (deceased), James, Martha, who resides 
in Ohio and is now in her eighty-fifth year; Stephen R. 
(deceased), who was a clergyman and a missionary to Africa 
for some time, and died in Princeton, N. J.; Henry, Charles, 
Mary A. (deceased), and Henry, who was reared on the 
homestead of his father and worked on the farm. He has been 
a resident of Upper Makefield township since 1813. In 1870 
he moved to where he now lives. He owns this and another 
very fine farm in the same township, both places being 
finely improved. He was married October 9, 1833, to Lydia, 
daughter of Adrian and Lena (Craven) Cornell.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Wynkoop are the parents of seven children:  Louisa A., wife 
of James Jamison; Ellen, Mary, Henry, and Harriet, wife of 
Abraham Quick, living; and Stephen R. and David, deceased. 
Mr. and Mrs. Wynkoop are members of the Presbyterian church. 
He has been an elder in the Thompson Memorial church, 
Solebury township, for forty-five years. He is an 
intelligent old gentleman, and a man of enterprise and 
integrity.