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Wynkoop
Kindly submitted by Molly May |
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Wynkoop Smith, born 1866. Paper read to the Bucks
County Historical Society on the Wynkoop family with
considerable interesting information. For example,
Judge Wynkoop and Alexander Hamilton were together as
members of the First Continental Congress; Washington
wrote a letter to Judge Wynkoop arranging for Munroe
(then Colonel) to stay at his home while Munroe
recovered from wounds from the battle of Trenton. Elias
Ely Smith,M.D. and Susan B. Wynkoop were my
great-grandparents and lived in Bucks County. So that's
where the Wynkoop family ties in. The paper isn't dated
but the writer speaks having "served over three years
in war of '61-4".
page 250 JH Battle History of Bucks County
The recommendation of the first
congress and the county committee that the people
should associate "to improve themselves in the military
art" was not received with general favor, and in
September, 1775, Henry Wynkoop reported the
number of associators at 1688, and the number of those
refusing at 1613, notwithstanding the provincial
authorities had adopted a resolution to consider such
as public enemies. Bucks county was early represented
at "the front," however. Early in 1776 John Lacey
recruited a company of sixty-four men, with Samuel
Smith as first lieutenant, Michael Ryan as second, and
John Bartley and James Forbes as ensigns, for Anthony
Wayne’s regiment. Robert Sample, of Buckingham,
commanded a company in the Tenth Pennsylvania regiment;
Augustus Willett was a captain in Colonel Bull’s
regiment; Alexander Graydon, of Bristol, was a captain
in Colonel Shea’s regiment, and Samuel Benezet was
major in the Sixth Pennsylvania. Beside these
regiments, that of Colonel McGaw drew many recruits
from Bucks county.
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