Cornelius Evertszen WYNKOOP

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Cornelius Wynkoop, in 1671, was Elder of a Dutch Church at Esopus over which Hermanus Blom had labored as Pastor.
ÊÊÊÊOn the 25th of April, 1663, he received a grant of twelve morgens of land at Esopus, Ulster county,. (H. N. N., ii., 592.) The morgen seems to have been equivalent to a little more than two acres. This land is said to have been at New Dorp, now Hurley.
ÊÊÊÊHe removed from Albany to Hurley in 1664. The same year he hired some land of Albert Gysbert, for the price of a pair of horses - 400 guilders.
ÊÊÊÊÊÊIn 1673, he was Schepen of Hurley, Ulster county. (Doc. Rel. to Col. Hist. N. Y., ii., 626.)
ÊÊÊÊOn the 5th of February, 1674, he witnessed the signatures of Indian Sachems to a treaty with Col. Nicolls. (Col. Uls. Hist. Soc., i., 63.) He died in 1674.
ÊÊÊÊThe removal of this Cornelius from Albany to Esopus, as above stated Ð a tradition, preserved through another channel, that he first settled at Albany - and a comparison of dates - make it probable that he was son of the Peter, above mentioned, and the fact is so assumed, though it is uncertain.
ÊÊÊÊA tradition preserved in the family Bible of Judge Henry Wynkoop, of Pennsylvania, is as follows - Cornelius C. Wynkoop, a young bachelor, migrated from Utrecht in the United Dutch Netherlands, early in the 17th Century, to Manhadoes now New York and soon after settled at Vertrange (Fort Orange) now Albany. Here he erected certain water works, but his knowledge of the streams was defective, and a sudden rise of the waters destroyed his works. After this disaster, he removed from Albany to Esopus, where he remained as a farmer, until his death. He left four sons, Everardus, Johannes, Gerardus, and Benjamin. The first two remained at Esopus, as farmers; Gerardus with his family removed to Pennsylvania 1717; and the youngest, Benjamin, a silversmith, settled in New York.

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CORNELIUS VAN WYNKIIO (see above) purchase his home on January 29. 1657 in the village of Beverwyck, at auction, paying the sum of nine hundred and eleven guilders. He signed his name as CORNELIUS WYNKOOP (note change in name). He settled at Esopus in 1664 and obtained a grant of land near the new village of Hurley, grant by Director Stuyvesant of 24 and 48 acres. In April 1669 he was commissary of Kingston and remained in office until 1671 (or 1674). On July 5, 1674 he was a witness to the renewal of the treaty with the Indians. The said CORNELIUS WYNKOOP was Schepen of Hurley during the re-occupation of the province by the Dutch from 1664 to 1674. He was a member of the committee of defense against the French in 1674. On May 15, 1671 it was assigned to him as an inhabitant of Kingston, New York, "To renew his portion of the stockade.:
The following information is taken from "Olde Ulster," Vol. 2, page 197 ("Olde Ulster" i. e. Ulster Co., New York). (The information follows.) "The warring nations entered into a treaty of peace the next year and revived the Treaty of Breda. England relinquished to the United Netherlands possessions in the East Indies while the Netherlands ceded to England their land in America. From this time until the Revolution "Olde Ulster" remained under English control. It is necessary to add the entry from those old court records of the resumption of English Administration:
On this December 20th, 1674. Present. Schout Grevenraedt, CORNELIS WYNKOOP, Roelof Kierstede and Wessel Tenbroeck.
On this day Schout Grvenraedt showed an order of the Lord * * * * by which he has relieve the Magistrates of the oath to which their High Mightenssses and the Prince of Orange, and in compliance with order of the Ld. Governor Edmund Andorra, has surrendered the supreme authority to Mr. Chambers and Mr. Hall.

Mr. Chambers and Mr. Hall have published the order of the Lad. Governor Edmund Andorra, wherein it was slated that the commissary who held office in the year 1672 shall again be re-instated for a period of one-half year, via:, Capt. Chambers, President, Mr. Hall, Schout: CORNELIUS WYNKOOP; Joost Adrelensen; and Roelof Kiersteded; who have taken the oath of allegiance to his Royal Highness, James, Duke of York.
The said CORNELIUS WYNKOOP died in Kingston, New York about 1676. In October, 1678 MARIA JANSE WYNKOOP nee LANGEDYK was referred to as the widow of CORNELIUS VAN WYNKOOP and he Will gives her family name as LANDEDYK. She died in 1679.

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Names of children from Will, dated August 11, 1676. Date of death presumed, will of wife, dated May 16, 1679, describes self as "widow of Cornelis Wynkoop." Richard Wynkoop, Wynkoop Genealogy in the United States of America, p. 14-15 (New York 1904).