Benjamin Wynkoop (November 5, 1673 - buried April 6, 1751) was a

silversmith A silversmith is a metalworker who crafts objects from silver. The terms ''silversmith'' and ''goldsmith'' are not exact synonyms, as the techniques, training, history, and guilds are (or were, at least) largely the same but differed in that t ...

, active in

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in the

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. Wynkoop was born in

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and baptised by the Dominie of Kingston's Old Dutch Church on April 18, 1675. On October 21, 1697, he married Femmetje Van Der Huel in New York City, where they lived in the South Ward of Manhattan Island. He was made freeman of the city in 1698 and served as a Collector and Assessor of Taxes at various times from 1703 to 1732. His Spanish-Indian slave, London, was indicted with others in the

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for conspiring to burn the city. He died in New York City. Wynkoop made much of the communion silver of the

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churches. His work is collected in the

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, and the

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References

"Benjamin Wynkoop"
American Silversmiths. * ''The Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art'', Volumes 16–17, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1921, page 196. * ''American Silver of the XVII & XVIII Centuries: A Study Based on the Clearwater Collection'', Alphonso Trumpbour Clearwater, Clara Louise Avery, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1920, page 26. * ''Early American Silver in The Metropolitan Museum of Art'', Beth Carver Wees, Medill Higgins Harvey, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013, page 78. * ''American Silversmiths and Their Marks: The Definitive (1948) Edition'', Stephen G. C. Ensko, Courier Corporation, 2012. {{DEFAULTSORT:Wynkoop, Benjamin American people of Dutch descent Silversmiths from the Thirteen Colonies 1673 births 1751 deaths 18th-century American artisans People from the Province of New York Slave owners from the Thirteen Colonies