There are a number of Wynkoops listed in the existing Moreland Township Tax Records for Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, including Cornelius Wynkoop, [No. 164], Garret Wynkoop, [No. 163], Philip Wynkoop, [No. 166], Catharine (Van Meter) Wynkoop, [No. 144], Isaac Wynkoop, [No. 364], Abraham Wynkoop, [No. 355] and Derick Hogeland Wynkoop, [No. ?]. Garret Wynkoop, [No. 163] in Richard Wynkoop's 1904 edition of Wynkoop Genealogy in the United States of America, (page 68), is the only slaveholder in these tax records:

    163. Gerrit Wynkoop (Philip 48, Gerret 5, Cornelius 1), Philip "Winekoop" had a child baptized February 9, 1744, Abington, Pa., but no name recorded: it was this Gerrit.
    Gerrit died in 1822, aged 78 years. He married, March 28, 1793, Nancy Van Horn, Abington church. She died, in 1837, aged 86 years. He was an executor of the will of his father, in 1771.
    Child of Gerrit and Nancy Wynkoop:
400. Margaret: bp. Jan. 16, 1800, Abington church: m. George M. Woodward, of Burlington County, N. J., who died there, in 1850, aged 65. She was living in the same place, in 1868, and had six living children.

    Garret's slave holdings were reduced from two to one in the February 16th, 1789 tax records. The Pennsylvania Gazette Advertisement for a runaway slave. explains why.

    Sometimes you can recover the past.

    Chris

Tax Records Moreland
1785-1824

Abbreviations:
A = Acres
Asst = Assessment
D = Dwelling
Dols = Dollars
Dwg. = Dwelling
Dwell = Dwelling
Far. = Farmer
Farm. = Farmer
Occp = Occupation
Occpn = Occupation
Ocp = Occupation
Ocpn = Occupation
Occupn = Occupation
PHd = Per Head
Phead = Per Head
Rat = Rate
Wid = Widow

1775:

Assessed the 27^th day of Aug^t 1775:

Garret Wynkoop       Farmer    20/0
192 Acres & Dwelling               768
2 Negroes - - -                           70
3 Horses - - -                             18
4 Cows - - -                               16
                                                  ---
                                                 872

1786:

Assessed by us the subscribers - this 13^th day of April - 1786

Wynkoop, Garret,     Farmer    15/0
134 Acres & Dwelling               816
2 Negroes - - -                           70
3 Horses - - -                             17
4 Cows - - -                               17
                                                  ---
                                                 920

1788:

January 26, 1788

Wynkoop, Garret
174 Acres & Dwell                   783
2 Negroes - - -                           70
3 Horses - - -                             17
4 Cows - - -                               20
Occupation                                 30
                                                  ---
                                                 920

1789:

February 16, 1789

Wynkoop, Garret,      Far.
174 Acres & Dwell                  783
1 Negroe - - -                            37
4 Horses - - -                             20
4 Cows - - -                               20
Occupation                                 30
                                                  ---
                                                 890

1791:

Moreland
1791

Wynkoop, Garret       Farmer     30
174 Acres & Dwelling              783
1 Negro - - -                              27
4 Horses - - -                             24
4 Cowes - - -                             16
                                                  ---
                                                 880

1793:

Moreland
1793
March 11, 1793

Wynkoop, Garret P^Hd
174 Acres & Dwg.                   785
5 Horses - - -                             30
4 Cows - - -                               20
2 Negroes - - -                           40
Occupation
                                                  ---
                                                 905

1795:

Moreland
1795
March 18, 1795

Wynkoop Garret
174 Acres & Dwg.                   785
4 Horses - - -                             25
4 Cattle - - -                               20
1 Negroe - - -                            10
Occupⁿ
                                                  ---
                                                 870

    March 18th, 1795 was the last time that Garret Wynkoop was taxed for the possession of a Negroe [sic]. Presumably he was manumitted later that year. Garret continued paying taxes on a regular basis up to March 26th, 1822. He died sometime before March 24, 1823, when the estate of Garret Wyncope was next taxed.

Source:

Montgomery County Archives
1880 Markley St.
Norristown, Pennsylvania

Tax Records Moreland, 1785-1824
Microfilm Roll 28 of 66
0021634
0021634400701
Years 1785-1824
Missing - 1787, 1790, 1794, 1808, 1815, 1820, 1826