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    Wynkoop (Cornelius), a Holland Dutchman, purchased property at Fort Orange, now Albany, January 29, 1657, m. Maria Jans. Langedyck, had son Evert (2), b. Mar. 24, 1765, [sic] d. July 31, 1746, m. Aug. 26, 1688 Gertrude Elmendorf, had son Tobias (3), bap. Apr. 28, 1717, m. Nov. 11, 1741, Leah Legg. They had Major William (4); Cornelius; Hezekiah; Tobias; Petrus: Ann; Leah; Catherine.

    (4) Major William, bap. Mar. 4, 1753, served during the Rev. war in the Ulster County Militia and was present at the surrender of General Burgoyne. He came to Chemung from Esopus in 1788 or 1789, probably the latter as the papers for this land purchase were made out in Albany in 1788. There is a doubt as regards the date of his death, some alleging that he d. at the age of 80, others 89. We believe the latter to be correct. From the best information we can obtain, he with his wife and Benjamin and his wife were buried on a knoll at the side of Wynkoop creek, a short distance below the Erie R. R. bridge. He married Widow Charity Schemerhorn, 2 children: Hannah, b. Feb. 9, 1778, m. Sept. 1, 1776, Benjamin Wynkoop, a distant relative, see Benj. line; Jane, m. Philip McConnold. She and her husband d. at Newtown, Chemung Co., N. Y., childless.

    Benjamin the settler, was a jeweller by trade, b. Apr. 1769. He was persuaded to come to Chemung to make jewelry and trinkets for the Indians, by Major William whose dau. he married. He was son of Benjamin, bap. Apr. 9, 1732, who married Grissel, dau. of Jabez Frost, of Fairfield, Conn., Mar. 6, 1754, and remained there until his death by drowning in 1782; son of Benjamin bap. May 23, 1705, probably in N. Y. City as he was admitted to Fairfield Church by letter from Dutch Church that place, Oct. 6, 1734, m. Eunice, dau. of Judge Peter Burr, cousin of Aaron, Sr., president of Princeton College; son of Benjamin, bap. Nov. 5, 1673, m. Femetje Van-

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derHuil Oct. 20, 1687, records show that he was of Kingston, she of N. Y.; son of Cornelius and Maria Jans Langedyck, the ancestor of Major William. Benjamin, the pioneer had 4 bro. and 2 sisters. Abraham disappeared during the Revolution; John lived Conn., 1813, after which his widow, Esther Griffin moved to Chemung; Gershom settled in Tioga Co.; Peter was a sea captain; Grissel m. Mr. Hurd, had dau. Delia m. Chauncy Wilcox, lived in Waverly, after his death Anna married and had dau. Harriet and Mary Ann.

    Benjamin married Hannah, dau. of Major William Wynkoop, b. Feb. 9, 1778, children: Harriet b. May 19, 1797, m. Alonzo Fey and lived in town of Chemung, raised large family; Julia Antoinette (5); Alonzo Illus (6); Almira b. July 19, 1803; m. Nelson Quick; Minola Theban (7); Nile Frost (8); Ann, single, b. Jan. 25, 1810; Archimedes Burr b. June 6, 1812, went to California; Cornelia Amanda (9); William Tell (10); Delia b. Aug. 29, 1819, m. Sayre Redfield.

    (5) Julia Antoinette, b. Apr. 18, 1799, d. Sept. 23, 1855, Bellevue, Iowa, m. William Seaward, 5 children: Amos; Benjamin Wynkoop; Hannah Jane; Ophelia Cecelia; William Tell.

    (6) Alonzo Illus, farmer of town of Chemung, b. June 17, 1801, d. Sept. 15, 1874, m. Phebe, dau. of Philip Heerman and Mary Fellows of Scranton, Pa., b. July 4, 1818, d. 1913, 6 children: Mary Cornelia (11); Harriet Louise, b. June 6, 1841, m. Prof. Charles S. Farrar, of Vassar College; Helen Mar (12); Josephine, teacher, single, b. Jan. 9, 1846; Frank, only son, b. Sept. 23, 1849, d. in Wauconda, Ill., Apr. 8, 1874, single; Myra Kate, b. June 8, 1856, d. July 1919.

    (7) Ninola Theban b. Aug. 19, 1805, d. Mar. 26, 1869 at Bellevue, Iowa, m. Christine Moore dau. of ______ Fullerton, of Minisink, Orange Co., N. Y. After Ninola's death, the family moved to Howells, Orange Co., N. Y., 10 children: Cecilla Bradner b. July 29, 1834 in Chemung, m. Augustus Gideon Hammond; Don Alonzo b. Sept 17, 1836, m. Anne Caroll Coulehan; Sarah Louise b. Dec 7 1838, d. July 26, 1862, m. Edward Ford of Great Barrington, Mass.; Harriet Cornelia b. Jan. 1, 1841, at Phillipsburg, N. Y., m. Henry James Hall; Anne Elizabeth b. Apr. 13, 1842; Mary Isabella b. Apr. 5, 1844, at Thebandale, Orange Co., N. Y.; Phebe Delia b. May 11, 1846, m. Edgar Seaburn Colton; Emma G., b. at Wyoming, Stark Co., Ill., b. June 22, 1850; Kate b. Dec. 29, 1852; Alice Almira b. Mar. 19, 1856 at Bellevue, Iowa.

    (8) Nile Frost, farmer at Holberttown, Chemung, b. Nov. 9, 1807, m. Ann Heerman, (sister of Phebe mentioned above), 7 children: Guy b. July 15, 1841, enlisted 10 Reg. N. Y. Cav., taken prisoner to Andersonville, escaped and d. with fever while trying to reach Union lines; Sayre b. Mar. 12, 1844, served 3 years in Rebellion, m. Arabella Clark, lives in Bay City, Mich.; Delia Antoinette b. Feb. 29, 1846, m. Henry S. Bridgman, have son, Guy, lives in Elmira; Alice Louise b. Sept. 1, 1852, m. Charles Rockwell of Burlington, Pa., have Luther, Sayre, killed, Frank, Nellie; Philip H. farmer, Chemung, b. Sept. 25, 1854, m. (1) Kate Snell, 3 children: Dr. Ray, N. Y. City, Kathleen and Fletcher; m (2) Sarah Snell; Adah Belle b. Oct. 31, 1857, m. Joseph Rockwell, live in Burlington, Pa.; Joe Frost b. May 26, 1864, m. Mattie Bodine of Burlington, Pa.

    (9) Cornelia Amanda b. Oct. 6, 1814, m. Daniel J. Watkins, 6 children: Wm. Wynkoop d. young; Wm. Wynkoop (2) b. Yazoo Co., Miss., b. Mar. 19, 1845; George Torrey b. at Bellevue, Iowa, Jan. 23, 1848, d. young; May Hannah; Daniel J.; Cornelia.

    (10) William Tell b. May 25, 1817, m. Sarah Jane Booth. He was killed by a runaway team at Bellevue, Iowa, Jan. 30, 1870.

    (11) Mary Cornelia b. July 15, 1839, d. July 17, 1867, m. Charles Munson Young, merchant, N. Y.

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City, b. at Wantage, N. J., Sept. 11, 1834, son of Silas Young and Huldah Lewis, had Charles Munson, Jr., reared by his grand-parents after his mother d., b. Nov. 30, 1864, now (1913) a farmer at Andover, N. J., m. Margaret McGregor.

    (12) Helen Mar b. Sept. 7, 1843, m. Wm. Waite, son of John and Catharine (Brown) Everett, 6 children: Kate; Walter W.; Harry H.; Maude; Josephine; Frank.

Source:

Albertson, Capt. Charles L., "Wynkoop," History of Waverly, N.Y. and Vicinity, Waverly, N.Y., Waverly Sun, 1943, pp. 315-317.