Mynderse Wynkoop.
Mynderse Wynkoop.

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.
    Evart Wynkoop married Altje Myers, and had four children; Hezekiah and William, as mentioned above, also Henry and Catherine. The first married Elizabeth, daughter of William Dederick and had four children; Maria and Evart (twins), Henry and Altje. Of these, Evart married Marie Post and has children, William, Evart and Isaac.
    Henry married, 1st Neltje Mynderse, 2d, Hannah Wynkoop, and has five children; Henry, Mynderse, Hezekiah, Nellie and Maria. Mynderse married Mary E. Schoonmaker, and thus the homestead returned to the family of its original owners. Mr. Wynkoop has eight children; Egbert, Nellie, Sarah, William, Asa, Gillette, Irving and Anna M. His son Asa is now a student in Rutgers College.
    Henry Wynkoop, the father, was judge of the Court of Common Pleas at Kingston, and a soldier in the war of 1812. Evart the great-grandfather was a member of the committee of safety during the Revolution, and a lieutenant of militia under the king. The family residence is a typical Dutch homestead. Its stone walls seem to bid defiance to time and will doubtless last for centuries to come. The date 1792, cut in the stone, tells the time of its erection, and the inscription W.W.K. 1820, indicates the time of its enlargement and improvement.


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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