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HISTORY OF BUCKS. COUNTY. 



his life. He married June 15, 1864, Mary 

 Evans, daughter of Darling anl Rachel 

 (Matlack) Evans, and they are the pa- 

 rents of two children: Maurice E., born 

 8 mo. 19, 1865, married Laura S. Thomp- 

 son and has one child, Florence T., born 

 II mo. 8, 1891; and J. Wilmer, the sub- 

 ject of this sketch. 



The first maternal ancestor of Mr. 

 Lundy to land in America was William 

 Evans, of South Newenton, Oxford- 

 shire, carpenter, who came to New Jer- 

 sey prior to 1682 and purchased one- 

 half of a one-fifteenth share of the lands 

 of West Jersey in that year, and several 

 hundred acres were laid out to him on 

 the Rancocas creek in Burlington 

 county. He died in 1688, leaving a wife 

 Jane; a daughter Sarah, wife of Thomas 

 Eves, or Evans; and a son William. 

 William (2) died in 1728, leaving chil- 

 dren Thomas, Jane and John. Of these 

 Thomas, born 12 mo., 12, 1693, died Feb- 

 ruary, 1793, married 10 mo. i, 1715, 

 Esther Haines, and had children: Will- 

 iam, Elizabeth Isaac, Esther, Jacob, 

 Nathan; of -whom William, born 1716, 

 died 1761, married Sarah Roberts, and 

 had children, John, Hannah, Enoch. 

 Esther, Mary, Rebecca and William, of 

 whom William, born 10 mo. 5, 1760, died 

 5 mo. 22, 1845, married 11 mo. 17, 1785, 

 Rebecca Ballinger, and had children, 

 Enoch, Joshua, Sarah, Mary, Darling 

 and Hannah; of whom Darling, born 3 

 mo. 14, 1799, died 12 mo. 19, 1891. mar- 

 ried I mo. 19, 1826, Rachel Matlack, and 

 had children. William, Sarah, Enoch, 

 Rebecca, wife of Thomas Lawrence, 

 Mary, wife of Joseph Lundy, and Ezra, 

 of Trenton, New Jersey. 



J. Wilmer Lundy was born and reared 

 on the farm near Rancocas, and was 

 educated at the Friends' school there and 

 at Moorestown Friends' high school. 

 After teaching school one year he en- 

 tered Trenton Business College, from 

 M'hich he graduated in 1889. From that 

 date until 1893 he filled the position of 

 bookkeeper for his uncle, Ezra Evans, a 

 Trenton grocer. In the latter year he 

 went to Mt. Holly as bookkeeper in the 

 plumbing establishment of George D. 

 Worrel, where he remained until 1900, 

 when he formed a partnership with 

 Elmer J. Shinn. and bought out the 

 plumbing, heating, tin and stove busi- 

 ness of Franklin Smith, at Newtown, 

 Bucks county, which business he has 

 since conducted, his partner having 

 charge of a branch establishment at 

 Princeton, New Jersey. Mr. Lundy is 

 a member of the Society of Friends, and 

 politically is a Democrat. He is a mem- 

 ber of Mt. Holly Lodge No. 14. F. and 

 A. M., the Junior Order U. A. M.. and 

 the Knights of Pythias. He married 

 April .30, 1895. Lizzie Morris Roberts, 

 daughter of Stacy and Harriet Roberts, 

 and they have one child, Elizabeth, born 

 January 5. 1900. 



CAPTAIN WILLIAM WYNKOOP, of 



Newtown, is a representative of a fam- 

 ily that has been prominent in the his- 

 tory of our country for over two cen- 

 turies, many of them at different periods 

 filling high and honorable positions in 

 church and state, in local, state and 

 national affairs. 



The American progenitors of the 

 family were Peter and Cornelius Wyn- 

 koop, who migrated from Holland tO' 

 New York in 1639 and 1642, respec- 

 tively. Peter was born in 1616 and came 

 to New Amsterdam in 1639, and settled 

 in New York state near the present site 

 of Albany five years later, where he be- 

 came prominent in the Dutch colony. 

 His descendants were prominent in the 

 affairs of that section for many gener- 

 ations. A grandson Evert, son of Cor- 

 nelius, was a captain in the French and 

 Indian w\r and died of camp fever in 

 1750. Adrian Wynkoop, another de- 

 scendant, was commissioned major of 

 the First Regiment of Ulster county. 

 New York, May i, 1776, and in the same 

 year was placed in command of two 

 hundred men to guard the passes of the 

 Hudson. His brother Jacobus was a: 

 captain of the Fourth New York Regi- 

 ment in 1775, and was later transferred 

 to the naval service on recommendation 

 of General Schuyler, to take comnjand 

 of all the vessels on Lakes George and 

 Champlain. Another Cornelius was «. 

 colonel in the Continental service in- 

 New York. Cornelius, a son of Peter, 

 married Maria Janse Langedyck, and 

 their third son Gerrit (or Gerardus, as 

 the name came to be spelled later) mar- 

 ried Hilli'tje Folkert. and in the year 

 1717 came to Pennsylvania with his sons 

 Nicholas and Gerritt. He lived for a 

 time in the manor -of Moreland, but 

 later removed to "Northampton town- 

 ship, Bucks county, where he died in 

 1747, leaving sons Cornelius, Nicholas,. 

 Gerrit and Philip, and daughters • Jan- 

 netje Van Buskirk and Jacomyntje Van 

 Meter. He purchased in 1727 five hun- 

 dred and twenty acres in Northampton, 

 which he conveyed in equal parts to 

 his two sons Nicholas and Gerrit in 

 1738, and part of the latter is still the 

 propertj' of the subject of this sketch, 

 having descended from father to son for 

 five generations. Nicholas, the third 

 son, married Ann Kuypers, and their 

 only son was Judge Henry Wynkoop, 

 who was in the opinion of many the 

 most prominent man in the history of 

 Bucks county. He was for many years 

 the leading justice of the courts of 

 Rucks county, and its first president 

 judge. From the time the relations be- 

 tween the colonies and the crown be- 

 came strained, he was the leader of the 

 patriot cause in Bucks county, was one 

 of the delegates to the meeting o'f the 

 proN'incial deputies at Cari)entcr's Halt 

 in July. 1774. was appointed t<> attend 



