September 27, 1764 The Pennsylvania Gazette

    Just imported in the last Ships from London, and to be sold by BENJAMIN WYNKOOP, At his Store in Water street, a few Doors above Chestnut street, A Neat Assortment of East India and European Goods, suitable to the Season; amongst which are, Broadcloths, striped Duffils, Ozenbrigs, Irish Linens, Russia and Ravens Duck, Russia and Irish Sheeting, Taffety, Persian, &c. &c. &c.

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Unknown, "Just imported in the last Ships from London," The Pennsylvania Gazette, Philadelphia, Pa., Thursday, 27th September 1764.

    Richard Wynkoop, in the 1904 edition of the Wynkoop Genealogy in the United States of America, has this to say about Benjamin Wynkoop on pages 74-75:

    175. Benjamin Wynkoop, (Abraham 52, Benjamin 8, Cornelius 1,) born November 23, 1734: died September 2, 1803: married May 18, 1767 Sarah Wooddrop Sims, daughter of Joseph and Anne Sims. His body, and the bodies of several of his children, were buried at the corner of Pine and Third streets, Philadelphia. His widow died December 31, 1814, aged 63.
    His descendents know of no second marriage, and yet he seems to have married, about 1781, and, probably a sister of Sarah. For James Lempriere Hammond wrote, from the Island of Jersey, in May, 1783, to his brother Nicholas, as follows: "Your last letter tells me of the marriage, about a year and a half ago, of Mr. B. Wynkoop to his second wife." The "B. Wynkoop" seems to be this Benjamin, and he named children, after that period, Wooddrop Sims, and Sarah, which suggests that the second wife was sister to the first.
    Benjamin was, in 1788, a member of the Rumseian Society, Philadelphia, and of its committee of correspondence. This society had for its subject James Rumsey's experiments with steamboats.
    Benjamin Wynkoop and his family, in 1778, were at the residence of his step-mother, the Widow Mary (Dyer) Wynkoop, Appoquinimink, Newcastle County, Delaware, while Philadelphia was occupied by the British. Nicholas Hammond, then aged about twenty, grandson of the Widow Wynkoop, wrote as follows: "Mr. Benjamin Wynkoop and family are with us, and by their generally pretty and familiar behavior increase the cordiality which before subsisted among us. They have been here some months, and await, with impatience, the messengers of peace, that they may return to Philadelphia."
    Children of Benjamin and Sarah Wynkoop:
426. Joseph: b. Dec. 3, 1768: d. Mch. 24, 1814.
427. Esther: b. May 18, 1771: d. Nov. 20, 1774.
428. Sarah: b. May 15, 1773: d. Sept. 24, 1777.
429. Anne: b. Dec. 30, 1775: d. June 18, 1849.
430. Benjamin: b. Nov. 15, 1778: d. Sept. 10, 1789.

    Children of Benjamin and ----- Wynkoop:
431. Abraham: b. June 1, 1782: m. Hannah Norman.
432. Wooddrop Sims: b. Oct. 20, 1786: d. in 1814: m. Jan. 19, 1807, Anne Bartleson, Christ Church, Phil. They had no child.
433. Sarah: b. June 30, 1789: d. July 12, 1790.

    Chris