Henry Wynkoop, a grandson of Gerardus and son of Nicholas, born Mch 2, 1737, and married Ann Kuipers of Bergen County, N.J. became the most prominent member of the family in the last Century. He early espoused the cause of the Colonies, and was a member of the Bucks County Committee of Safety in 1774 & '75, and '76; was a lieutenant in the Army; and a member of the Congress that assembled in Carpenters' Hall, June 18, 1776. Upon the adoption of the Constitution he was elected a member of the first Congress of the United States that assembled in New York, in 1789. He was a man of large frame & of handsome appearance. He was a personal friend of Washington, by whome he was highly esteemed, and also of Alexander Hamilton. It was at the Wynkoop mansion in Northampton Twp. that James Monroe spent part of his time recovering from the wound he received at Trenton. He was associate Judge of the Count of Common Pleas and delivered the first charge to the Grand Jury at Newtown under the Constitution of 1776. He was a conspicuous figure as long as he lived.

    Of the Children of Henry Wynkoop, Christiana, born April 20, 1763, married Dr. Reading Beatty of Newtown, and died at Abington, May 18, 1841; Anna, born in 1765, married James Raguet, a French exile in 1790, who came to Newtown about 1785, and died suddenly in Philadelphia in 1818. His wife died in 1815; Margaretta, born in 1768, married Herman J. Lombert, & died of Yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1793; Nicholas, born in 1770, married Fanny, eldest daughter of Majr. Francis Murry of Newtown, an ex-officer of the Continental army; in 1793. Their grandson, Francis M. Wynkoop, born near Newtown in 1820, distinguished himself in the Mexican War a Colonel of the first Pennsylvania Volunteer. His uncle Geo. C. Wynkoop, son of Nicholas, was a Brigadier-General in the three month service in the War of the Rebellion and afterward commanded the 9th Pennslyvania Cavalry. Emily, the sister of Col. F. M. Wynkoop, married Wiliam Brindle, who was Lieut. Col. of her brother's rgt. Mex War.

    Notes: The Lombert, Murray & Beatty family.

    Monroe quartered at Robert Neely's previous to Trenton where he was sick, but recovered sufficiently to accompany the Army. A letter by Washington to Wynkoop procured him hospitable quarters for Monroe at Wynkoops. While Monroe was President he expressed in a letter March 24, 1824, the most lively gratitude for the kind help rec'd. Henry Wynkoop residence was the farm in Northampton late Joseph Camm.

    Capt. Murry commanded the force(?) that escorted Hessian prisoners [from] Phila. enroute to Lancaster for Newtown. Murray had lately been released from (?) New York.
    Lee (?) letter of Clement Biddle lefty(?) 22 June, Newtown Dec. 28, 1776. Washington ordered the prisoners to be sent forward.

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Source:

Spruance Library
Bucks County Historical Society
84 South Pine Street
Doylestown, PA 18901

Davis, General W. W. H., Collection
Fol. 48

    General Davis was the founder of the Bucks County Historical Society in Doylestown, Pa. He and Capt. William C. Wynkoop fought long and hard to make it the premiere research facility it is today for those of us with roots in eastern Pennsylvania. During the Mexican War he fought by the side of Col. Francis Murray Wynkoop [1218], the man responsible for unearthing Judge Henry Wynkoop's Genealogical Description which you will find elsewhere on this website.
    Thomas Henry Wynkoop [1164] served with General Davis's 104th Regiment from Bucks County during the Civil War and was killed in battle in June of 1862. The T. H. Wynkoop Post No. 427 of the Grand Army of the Republic in Newtown, Bucks County was named after him and is still active today, (1999). Thomas was the younger brother of Captain William Wynkoop.

    Richard Wynkoop's 1904 edition of Wynkoop Genealogy in the United States of America has this to say about Thomas Henry Wynkoop:

1164. Thomas Henry: b. Aug. 28, 1841: d. June 17, 1862. He was a member of the 104th Reg. Penn. Vol., and was transferred to the gun-boat Mound City, and was killed by her explosion. There were two rebel batteries, at St. Charles, White River, Ark.; and, at the storming of them, a cannon ball penetrated the vessel, and pierced her boiler. Out of 175 men on the vessel, only 26 survived.

    General Davis was the author of a family Genealogy which contains some other Wynkoop references:

Davis, W. W. H., History of the Hart Family of Warminster, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Printed Privately, 1867.

    "This book contains the history of John Hart from England, that settled in Pennsylvania during the sixteenth century."