When William Wynkoop II was born in 1778, in Churchville, Northampton Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Gerrardus Wynkoop, was 46 and his mother, Elizabeth Bennet, was 42. He married Mary Langstroth on 15 April 1801, in Southampton, Upper Southampton Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. He died on 8 July 1833, in Northampton Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Addisville, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Pennsylvania was always against slavery, even though the first settlers, including Penn, came with slaves. Slavery was not prominent in the area.
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
Dutch: variant, archaic or Americanized, of Wijnkoop, a nickname from wijnkoop ‘drinking-bout after a sale, paid for by the buyer’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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