Henry Wynkoop was a member of the Continental Congress

Continental Congress

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 (from 1779) and later a United States Representative for the state of Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...

 during the First United States Congress, 1789 to 1791.

Prior to his term as a representative, he served as a Justice on the Court of Common Pleas  and the orphan's court in Kingston, Pennsylvania

Kingston, Pennsylvania

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 from 1780 to 1789. After his term in Congress, he was appointed as an Associate Judge in Bucks County, as which he served until his death in that county on March 25, 1816; he was interred in the graveyard of the Low Dutch Reformed Church, Richboro, Pennsylvania

Richboro, Pennsylvania

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Further reading

• Beatty, Joseph M., Jr. "The Letters of Judge Henry Wynkoop, Representative From Pennsylvania to the First Congress of the United States." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 38 (January 1914): 39-64, 183-205.

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