The three Wynkoops listed here are Gerardus Wynkoop, [No. 153], his cousin, Judge Henry Wynkoop, [No. 157], and Henry's son, Nicholas Wynkoop, [No. 393.] More information regarding them can be found in Richard Wynkoop's 1904 edition of Wynkoop Genealogy in the United States of America.

    I would like to thank George F. Nagle, gnagle2919@aol.com, for his permission to reprint his research material here for the benefit of those of us researching Wynkoop family history in general and Wynkoop family slaves and slaveholders in particular.

    Almost all of this material has been copied from George's monumental project, Central Pennsylvania Slaves and Slaveholders which I can't recommend enough to anyone researching this subject in Pennsylvania during the 18th and 19th centuries.

    Thanks George. Keep up the good work!

    Chris

Bucks County Prothonotary Records;
Register of Slaves

Bucks County Slaveholders and Slaves listed here are:

Wynkoop, Gerandas [sic] (Slaves listed: Flora)
Wynkoop, Henry (Slaves listed: Tom, Toney, Belinda, Peter, Phoebe, Issabel, Tom, Oliver, Mary, Jeffery)
Wynkoop, Nicholas (Slaves listed: Rosetta)

Slaveholder Name: Wynkoop, Gerardas [sic]

City or Township: Northampton
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:

1. Slave Name: Flora
    Sex: Female
    Age: 14
    Date of Birth: 1766 (calculated)
    Status: Slave for life
    Description:
    Source: 72
    Date of Record: 1780
    Notes:

City or Township: Northampton Township Occupation: Judge, farmer
Slaveholder Notes:

1. Slave Name: Tom
    Sex: Male
    Age: 68
    Date of Birth: 1712 (calculated)
    Status: Slave for life
    Description:
    Source: 72
    Date of Record: 1780
    Notes:

2. Slave Name: Toney, or Tony
    Sex: Male
    Age: 31
    Date of Birth: 1749 (calculated)
    Status: Slave for life; Manumitted 1793
    Description: Negro Man
    Source: 72
    Date of Record: 1780
    Notes: Manumitted by Henry Wynkoop in December, 1793 (Source 100).

3. Slave Name: Belinda
    Sex: Female
    Age: 07
    Date of Birth: 1773 (calculated)
    Status: Slave for life
    Description:
    Source: 72
    Date of Record: 1780
    Notes:

4. Slave Name: Peter
    Sex: Male
    Age: 10
    Date of Birth: 1770 (calculated)
    Status: Slave for life
    Description:
    Source: 72
    Date of Record: 1780
    Notes:

5. Slave Name: Phoebe
    Sex: Female
    Age: 17
    Date of Birth: 1763 (calculated)
    Status: Slave for life; Manumitted 1793
    Description: Negro
    Source: 72
    Date of Record: 1780
    Notes: Manumitted by Henry Wynkoop in December, 1793 (Source 100).

6. Slave Name: Issabel
    Sex: Female
    Age: 39
    Date of Birth: 1741 (calculated)
    Status: Slave for life
    Description:
    Source: 72
    Date of Record: 1780
    Notes: According to John Beatty's 3rd Record Book, Isabel was set free sometime after the Pennsylvania Gradual Emancipation Act was passed in 1780.

7. Slave Name: Tom
    Sex: Male
    Age: 14
    Date of Birth: 1766 (calculated)
    Status: Slave for life; Manumitted in 1793
    Description: Negro
    Source: 72
    Date of Record: 1780
    Notes: Manumitted by Henry Wynkoop in December, 1793 (Source 100).

8. Slave Name: Oliver
    Sex: Male
    Age: 11
    Date of Birth: 1769 (calculated)
    Status: Slave for life
    Description:
    Source: 72
    Date of Record: 1780
    Notes:

9. Slave Name: Mary
    Sex: Female
    Age: 58
    Date of Birth: 1722 (calculated)
    Status: Slave for life
    Description:
    Source: 72
    Date of Record: 1780
    Notes:

10. Slave Name: Jeffery
    Sex: Male
    Age: 41
    Date of Birth: 1739 (calculated)
    Status: Slave for life
    Description:
    Source: 72
    Date of Record: 1780
    Notes:

City or Township: Newtown
Occupation: Physician
Slaveholder Notes:

1. Slave Name: Rosetta
    Sex: Female
    Age: -
    Date of Birth: 1796-October 25
    Status: Slave to age 28
    Description:
    Source: 72
    Date of Record: January 13, 1797
    Notes:

    These sources have been copied, with his permission, from George Nagle's webpage at Sources For Slaveowners and Slaves In and Around Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, Page 2.

Reference Number: 72

Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves, LR83; Microfilm roll #5395. (Microfilm at the Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.)

Notes: This register contains three distinct types of slave records: 1780 Registrations of slaves; 1788 and later Registrations of children of slaves; and Manumissions papers. The documents have the appearance of having been copied into a central register, or book, over the course of the years involved, as opposed to being the original scraps of paper written out by the slaveholders themselves and delivered to the County Recorder. If this is the case, it means that errors in spelling and in the recording of details could be present.

Reference Number: 100

Source: Henry Wynkoop's Certificate of Manumission.