150 HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY.
MYNDERSE WYNKOOP.
The family bearing this name, were among the earliest Dutch settlers in New Amsterdam, and among their descendants are many men of eminence. The subject of this sketch is a descendant of Cornelius Wynkoop, who lived in Ulster county, and had two sons, Hezekiah and Tobias. The latter settled at Kiskatom. The former had a son Evart, who lived at Kingston. In the year 1789, he bought the farm at Catskill now in possession of his descendant. This farm, which was in Lot No. 5 in the Loveridge Patent, is finely situated about two miles below Catskill Landing. He bought this place for his son Hezekiah, who built a block house, which stood about 300 feet east of the present residence. He soon became tired of this new location, and went back to Kingston, and his brother William became the possessor, and made it his home. Here he had four daughters, Altje, Elizabeth, Hannah and Neltje. The last married Egbert Schoonmaker, who bought the farm and homestead.
Source: History of Greene County, New York: With Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men, New York, J.B. Beers & Co., 1884, p. 150.
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