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of Ulster County.
Richard Wynkoop, in the 1904 edition of the Wynkoop Genealogy in the United States of America, has this to say about him on pages 38-39:
63. Adriaan Wynkoop, Major, (Cornelius 9, Maj. Johannes 2, Cornelius 1,) baptized, Kingston, N. Y., August 21, 1726: died m 1795: married, in Kingston, October 25, 1754, Catharine Louw, born January 25, 1733, died November 17, 1796. 118 118 Inscription, West Hurley grave yard.
Wynkoop Genealogy 39of Hurley, to choose deputies to the New York provincial convention; and again, November 7, 1775, for the same purpose, in pursuance of which they chose Dirck Wynkoop [292], among others. He was chairman of the Associators of Hurley, July 6, 1775. As chairman of the Hurley Committee, he notified the provincial convention of the election of militia officers. There was a dispute as to the field officers of the Northern Regiment of Ulster County, and, in response to the provincial convention, he was nominated for Major. He is found as Major, of the First Regiment, Ulster County, May 25, 1775, and May 1, 1776. He was placed in command, October, 1776, of two hundred men, at the instance of the field officers of Ulster County, to guard the passes of the Hudson. Major Adriaan's bill, for £16, 1s 4 1/2d., was allowed January 18, 1777, for pay and subsistence of two hundred men, raised in Ulster County, and employed in guarding the passes, for twenty-seven days. 119 The appointment was for two months' service. 120 The last will of Adriaan, as of Hurley, dated April 22, 1795, proved August 21, gave his whole estate to his wife, Catharine, and his nephew, John C. Wynkoop. It mentioned Dirk his brother, and Cornelius Dumond, son of his sister Elizabeth. 121 Perhaps Dirk was a brother-in-law, or maternal half-brother. Adriaan's widow, in her last will, dated November 13, 1796, proved January 2, 1797, mentioned her brother, Cornelius Low. 121 Her sister, Margaret, married, September 2, 1746, Cornelius Ten Broek [71]. Adriaan had no child.
119 Journal of N. Y. Provincial Convention, vol. i., pp. 23, 189, 36, 193, 219, 178, 294, 489, 62, 98. Richard rearranged Andrew/Adrian Wynkoop's position in the family in the unpublished 1906 Supplement to the Wynkoop Genealogy., on page 4:
63. Adrien, b. Aug., 14, 1726; d. Oct., 21, 1726 (The Major Adriaan (63), of the Genealogy, is 64A. hereof);
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