September 7, 1774 The Pennsylvania Gazette

PHILADELPHIA, September 7.

    Last Thursday night, about ten o, a barn belonging to Mr. Garret Wynkoop, in the Manor of Moreland, was set on fire by lightning, which, with 50 bushels of wheat winnowed for fee, and a quantity of hay, was entirely consumed, together with a quantity of wheat, rye and oats, in barracks, supposed to be about 600 bushels; two hogs, that were lying near the barn when it was struck, were both killed.

Source:

Unknown, "Barn set on fire by Lightning," The Pennsylvania Gazette, Philadelphia, Pa., Wednesday, 7th September 1774.

    Richard Wynkoop, in the 1904 edition of the Wynkoop Genealogy in the United States of America, has this to say about Garret Wynkoop on page 68:

    163. Gerrit Wynkoop (Philip 48, Gerret 5, Cornelius 1), Philip "Winekoop" had a child baptized February 9, 1744, Abington, Pa., but no name recorded: it was this Gerrit.
    Gerrit died in 1822, aged 78 years. 176 He married, March 28, 1793, Nancy Van Horn, Abington church. She died, in 1837, aged 86 years. He was an executor of the will of his father, in 1771.
    Child of Gerrit and Nancy Wynkoop:
400. Margaret: bp. Jan. 16, 1800, Abington church: m. George M. Woodward, of Burlington County, N. J., who died there, in 1850, aged 65. She was living in the same place, in 1868, and had six living children.

    Chris