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Alida
Wynkoop Eights
Alida Wynkoop was born in 1772. She was the daughter of Manhattan merchant/skipper Jacobus Wynkoop and his wife Anna Koens Myers. Her family left New York City for Albany during the American Revolution. She grew up in Albany's third ward in a house near her father's boatyard.
By
the mid 1790s, she had married Jonathan Eights, a
young physician and the son of one of sailmaker Abraham
Eights - one of her father's business associates.
Their small family included two daughters and a son.
Dr.
Eights set up his practice in his home at 92 North
Pearl Street. Alida lived there for the rest of her
life.
Jonathan
Eights died in 1848 - ending more than fifty years
of marriage. Alida died in May 1849 at the age of
seventy-seven.
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Notes: The
life of Alida Wynkoop Eights is CAP biography number
6951. This profile is derived chiefly from family
and community-based resources. A fair amount of
historical and genealogical information on these
Wynkoops appears on Christopher H. Wynkoop's RWG3
website. See also, his truly impressive Wynkoop Family
Research Library.
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
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