DEPUY.-The ancestor in this country of the DePuy family is Nicolas du Pui, from Artois, France. He set sail in October, 1662, for this country in the ship Purmerland Church with his wife, Catrina De Voz, and three children, Nicholas, John and Moses. He settled on Long Island. The sons Nicholas and John remained in the vicinity of New York. Moses, the youngest son, came and settled at Rochester, in the county of Ulster. He married Maria, daughter of Cornelis Wynkoop and Maria Janse Langendyck. There is a tradition in reference to his marriage, that he was about to set sail in command of a ship, and pending the loading of the vessel he visited Kingston and met Miss Wynkoop, fell in love at first sight, abandoned his contemplated voyage, and courted and married her. Thus was he drawn in this direction, and became one of the pioneer settlers of the town of Rochester, and one of the original trustees named in the grant of Queen Anne to the town of Rochester in 1703.
    There appears to have been a wonderful intimacy and more than friendly feeling existing between his family and that of Jochem Schoonmaker, as indicated by the following statement of marriages. Three of his sons and one of his daughters married in the family of Jochem Schoonmaker and Ann Hussey, as follows:
    Moses De Puy, February 14th, 1716, married Margaret Schoonmaker.
    Benjamin DePuy, September 3, 1719, married Elizabeth Schoonmaker.
    Catharine DePuy, May 10th, 1722, married Benjamin Schoonmaker.
    Jacobus DePuy, August 20th, 1725, married Sarah Schoonmaker.¹

    WYNKOOP.-Cornelis Wynkoop was in Albany as early as 1657. He removed to Kingston prior to 1671, for in that year he was an elder in the Kingston Church. His wife was Maria Janse Langendyck. Their children were:
    Johannis, known as Major Johannis Wynkoop, who married, June 7th, 1687, Judith Bloodgood. After her death he married, in 1696, Cornelia, daughter of Dirck Wessels Ten Broeck, of Albany.
    Maria married Moses, son of Nicholas Depuy.
    Evert, who married, August 26th, 1688, Gertrude, daughter of Jacobus Elmendorf and Greetje Aertse Van Wagonen. After her death he married Antje, daughter of Roeloff Kierstede and Eicke Roosa.
    Gerrit married Hillitje, daughter of Gerrit Fokker and Jacomyntje Slecht.
    Benjamin married, October 20th, 1697, Femmitje, daughter of Abraham Vanderheul and Tryntje Hendrick Kip.²

Sources:

¹ Schoonmaker, Marius, History of Kingston, New York From its Early Settlement to the Year 1820, New York, Burr Printing House, 1888, pp. 476-477.

² Ibid., pp. 494-495.

    Many thanks to Gene Fossey of Santa Barbara, California for sending me a Xerox of these pages way back in 1998. I only just rediscovered these while searching for some other material that I just received permission to transcribe. Sorry for the delay, Gene. I really appreciate your generosity of spirit in sending me these pages in the first place.

    All my best,

    Chris