December 22, 1784 The Pennsylvania Gazette

To be SOLD at public Vendue,
At the Coffee-House, on SATURDAY, the 8th day of January next, at six o'clock in the evening,

    ONE undivided moiety or half part of 657 acres of LAND, belonging to the estate of Abraham Wynkoop, deceased, situate in Cedar creek hundred, Sussex county, in the state of Delaware, about one mile and a half from two public landings on Mispillion creek, between 30 and 40 acres whereof are cleared, the rest consists chiefly of level well timbered land, increasing in value from the general scarcity of timber and cord-wood, equally convenient by water carriage to Philadelphia market. The terms will be made known on the day of sale, by
PHEBE VINING, Executrix,
BENJAMIN WYNKOOP, Executor.

Source:

Unknown, "To Be Sold At Public Vendue," The Pennsylvania Gazette, Philadelphia, Pa., Wednesday, 22nd December 1784.

    Phebe Vining and Benjamin Wynkoop were the two eldest children of Abraham Wynkoop.

    Richard Wynkoop, in the 1904 edition of the Wynkoop Genealogy in the United States of America, has this to say about Abraham Wynkoop on pages 35-36:

    52. Abraham Wynkoop, (Benjamin 8, Cornelius 1,) born July 1, 1703, bp. N. Y., July 4: died before July, 1768. He married 1st, Esther Fisher; 2d, Mary Dyer, who died in June, 1778. Esther was daughter of Thomas and Margery (Maud) Fisher. Thomas was son of John Fisher, who accompanied William Penn, on his first voyage, to America, in October, 1682. Margery was daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth (Parr) Maud, and Elizabeth was of the family of Catharine Parr. Mary Dyer was daughter of William Dyer, and granddaughter of William and Mary (Dyer) Dyer, of Rhode Island. The second Mary Dyer had married 1st, in 1732, Nicholas Hammond, who came from the island of Jersey, in 1730. Their son, Nicholas Hammond, Jun., went to the island of Jersey, and there married Margaret Lempriere. His son, also named Nicholas, was sent, in 1772, aged 14, to Philadelphia, to the house of his grandmother then the widow Wynkoop, to be educated. In 1778, while the British were occupying Philadelphia, the widow Wynkoop, and her family, were at Appoquinimink Hundred, Newcastle, Del. Benjamin Wynkoop, probably the one who was her step-son, and his family, also were refugees at that place, and were very gently entertained. In 1780, this Nicholas Hammond married his cousin, Sarah George, and settled at Cambridge, Md. She died, in 1781; and, in 1789, he removed to Easton, Md.; and, some years later, he built the place "St. Aubin." In 1792, he married Rebecca Hollyday. His letters breathe a gentle, brotherly spirit, for his connections, as well as for his blood relations. He maintained and educated Lieut. Dyer Sharpe Wynkoop [435], and Hester Catalina Wynkoop [441], from her fourth to her sixteenth year. Her father, James [177], in his last sickness, took her to Hammond's house; and there James died.
    Mary Dyer, while she was the widow Hammond, received a conveyance of land at Appoquinimink. Abraham Wynkoop, in 1745, obtained land in the neighborhood of that of his second wife, by deed, which described him as of Sussex County, Del. This land was in Cedar Creek Hundred, near Milford, Sussex County. (See Cornelius P., 479). Abraham was originally of New York; afterwards of Philadelphia and Delaware.
    The executors of the will of Abraham Wynkoop made a contract, July 21, 1768, for the sale of one hundred and forty-four and a half acres of land, part of a tract, belonging to him, in Cedar Creek Hundred; which they afterwards conveyed, by deed, dated June 25, 1789.
    Children of Abraham and Esther Wynkoop:
174. Phoebe: b. Oct. 28, 1729: m. John Vining.
175. Benjamin: b. Nov. 23, 1734: m. 1st, Sarah Wooddrop Sims: probably m. 2d, a sister of Sarah.
    Children of Abraham and Mary Wynkoop:
176. Abram: d. about 1783: m. Rachel Sharpe.
177. James: physician: d. about 1788: m. Hester Peterson.

    Chris