In the old French and Indian War, Captain Evert Wynkoop and his command, went, with other forces, to Fort Edward, where they reported to the General in command, and remained there until they were discharged. ¥ (¥ Hist. of Kingston, Schoonmaker, pp. 136, 137).

On the 26th of August, 1688, he intermarried with Gertrude Elmendorf. The record describes him as born at Albany and living at Kingston. He took the oath of allegiance to the British in 1689, in Ulster County. His second wife was Annetje (or Antje) Kiersted. She was daughter of Roelof Kiersted and Eyke Roosa, and a descendant of Annetje Webber, wife of Roelof Jansen, and afterward of Rev. Everardus Bogardus, who is familiarly and expensively known to her descendants, to Trinity Church, and to the courts of New York, as Anneke Janse. Roelof Jansen and wife had a daughter, Sarah Roeloffe, who was married to Hans Kiersted, and their son Roelof Kiersted was husband of Eyke Roosa. The ancestor of the Kiersteds was killed in France for his religion, and his dead body was dragged through the street by the hair of his head. His son, who was a weaver of fine fabrics was stripped of his property. His wife peddled needles and other small things. Both were industrious, and they got together considerable money, which they invested in black broadcloth, and bringing the cloth with them to New Amsterdam, they found profitable sale, for some conspicuous man had recently died, and black goods were in demand, while the supply was short. The sale of the cloth gave them such a start that they were in possession of a large property at the time of their death. Evert is mentioned as a freeholder at Kingston in 1728, and his widow is recorded as a slaveholder at Hurley in 1755. The Caatsbaan church, about three miles above the village of Saugerties, which was built in 1732, and enlarged in 1816, had the initials E. W. K. engraved upon one of the stones in its front wall, along with the initials of other persons. This was a memorial of this Evert. He does not seem to have been a member of that church, but his son, Johannes E., was, in 1738, and his grandson, Evert, in 1759. The church was rebuilt in 1867, and the stone above mentioned was inserted in the rear wall. It seems to have been broken at that time, for the letter E does not now appear with the other initials. Evert's last will, dated Beaverkill of Kingston, June 2, 1746, mentions his wife, Antje; his grandchildren Evert and Tjaatje, children of Cornelius; his son Tobias; his grandchildren Evert and Catharine, children of Hezekiah; his sons Jacobus and Johannes; his daughter Antje; and his granddaughter Geertje Decker. This will was never proven nor recorded, and is in possession of the Compiler, who received it from Judge Henry Wynkoop, of Catskill, No. "320."