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KIP.
IT is proposed in the following sketch to trace particularly the pedigree of Gerrit Kip5, son of Abraham Kip4 and Maria Vanden Berg, who was born in New York May 11, 1746, and married Feb. 12, 1768, Ellenor or Nelletje Brouwer, and also to give some account of their descendants. We shall, as far as our information enables us, notice as fully as possible the first four generations of the Kips in this country ; to extend our re- searches further, except in the instance above stated, would render this sketch too voluminous, and therefore at variance with the original plan of these contributions to the history of the ancient families of New York.
The transatlantic pedigree of the Kip family has appeared in various American publications within the last thirty years, and while generally agree- ing in the account given of Ruloff De Kype, the first known ancestor of the family in Europe, the statements in reference to the immigrant ancestor to America, Hendrick Hendrickszen Kip, have not always been in accord with each other. It is impossible that the latter was the son of Ruloff De Kypeª, anglicized to Kip, for had he been, his name would have appeared in our early records as Hendrick Ruloffszen Kip, instead of as we now find it, Hendrick Hendrickszen Kip. From this fact and for the reason that no authority for the European pedigree has been given in the publications referred to, it must with all such of like character, be regarded with suspi-
* Sprague's Annals of the American Reformed Dutch Pulpit, p. 83.
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cion .* It has been the intention in these contributions, to confine our researches chiefly to the immigrant ancestors of old New York families and their immediate descendants, drawing the materials therefor, when not otherwise indicated, from the Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York, and from New York wills and conveyances.
I. HENDRICK HENDRICKSZEN KIPI (Kype), the ancestor of the Kip family of New York, came to New Amsterdam prior to 1643, with his wife, probably Tryntje + (anglicized Catharine), and five children who were born in Amsterdam. It is probable that his sixth child Femmetje was born here, his name appearing at her baptism, April 19, 1643, as Mr. Hendrick Hen- dricksz. He was perhaps of noble lineage, as it is related that the arms of the family were painted on the stained-glass windows of the first church erected in New Amsterdam. They were also carved in stone over the door of the Kip's Bay house, which is said to have been built in 1655 }, by his son Jacob.§ They are described as follows : " Azure, a chevron or, between two griffins sejant and a sinister gauntlet apaumē (tinctures not given). Crest, a demi-griffin holding a cross. Motto, 'Vestigia nulla retrorsum."' Hendrick Hendrickszen Kip was a tailor, his name appear- ing sometimes in the records simply as Hendrick the tailor, and again as
* The following is the pedigree referred to. The first ancestor of the Kip family of New York, of whom there is any notice in history, was Ruloff De Kype of Bretagne, France, who was born about 1510-20. He was a warm partisan of Francis Duke of Guise, the furious and bigoted leader of the Catholic party against the Huguenots. On the triumph of the Protestants, which occurred soon after the general massacre of the inhabitants of Vassey in Champagne, in 1562, he fled to Holland with his three sons, where they lived for several years under an assumed name. In 1569, he returned to France with his son Henri, joined the army of the Duke of Anjou, and fell in battle near Jarnac, March 13, of that year. He was buried by his son Jean Baptiste, in a small church near Jarnac, where an altar tomb was erected to his memory. "The inscription on the tomb mentioned him as RULOFF DE KYPE, ECUYER (this title designating a gentleman who had a right to coat armor), and was surmounted by his arms, with two crests, one a game-cock. the other a demi- griffen holding a cross, both of which crests have been used by different branches of the family in this coun- try." He left issue
1. HENRI2, who after his father's death entered the army of one of the Italian princes, and died unmarried.
JEAN BAPTISTE2 a priest in the Church of Rome.
RULOFF2, born 1544; he remained in Holland, became a Protestant, and settled at Amsterdam. He seems to have dropped from his name the French prefix De. He died in 1596, leaving issue :
i. HENDRICK3 (in English Henry), born 1576. "On arriving at manhood, he took an active part in the 'Company of Foreign Countries,' an association formed for the purpose of obtaining access to the Indies, by a different route from that pursued by Spain and Portugal. They first attempted to sail round the northern seas of Europe and Asia, but their expedition, despatched in 1594, was obliged to return on account of the ice, in the same year. In 1609, they employed Henry Hudson to sail to the westward, in the little Half Moon, with happier results." He came to New Amsterdam in 1635, with his children, and some years after returned to Holland, where he died. [He did not return to Holland, but lived and died in New York.] His sons remained in New Amsterdam, and rose to important posi- tions as citizens and landed proprietors. He m. Margaret de Marneil, and had issue :
HENDRICK4, who married Anna, dau. of Nicasius De Sille.
JACOBUS4. born May 15, 1631 ; m. Feb. 14, 1654, Maria, dau. of Johannes De La Montagne.
ISAAC4, who married Ist Feb. 8, 1653, Catalina de Suyers ; m. 2d Sept. 18, 1675, Maria Vermilye, widow of Johannes De La Montagne, Jr. (Compiled from Holgate's American Genealogy ; Lossing's Field Book of the Revolution ; Duyckinck's Cyclopedia of American Literature, vol. 2, p. 551 ; Historical Notes of the Family of Kip of Kipsburg and Kifs Bay, New York. [By Rt. Rev. Dr. William Ingraham Kip.] Privately printed, 1871 ; Corwin Gene- alogy, p. 49.)
+ Bishop Kip gives her name Margaret de Marneil ; Margaret was not a family name among the early Kips, and does not appear in the family before the first quarter of the last century. The name of Tryntie Kip is recorded in the list of old members of the Dutch Church of New Amsterdam, on the second line below that of Hendrick Kip, in the original record. As Tryntje, or Catharine, was a common name among the Kips, I have thought it probable that Tryntie Kip above alluded to, was the wife of Hendrick Kip1, and that perhaps her family name was DROOGH, as Jacob Hendricksen Kip2, son of Hendrick Hendricksen Kip1, in 1647, gave to his uncle Harman Hendricksen Droogh, a power of attorney to receive money due him by the West India Company at Amsterdam. (Calendar N. Y. Hist. MSS. Dutch, page 40.)
# Holgate and Lossing say it was built in 1641, but Jacob Kip, the Secretary of the Council of New Netherland, and reputed builder, was then a ten-year-old lad.
§ Hist. Notes of the Family of Kip of Kipsburg and Kip's Bay. New York. 1871 : pp. 5-27.
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Hendrick Snyder Kip. To a " resolution adopted by the Commonalty of the Manhattans" in 1643, he signs his name, Heindrick Heindricksen Kype. On the 28th April, 1643, he obtained a patent for a lot east of the fort, in the present Bridge Street near Whitehall, where he erected his dwelling-house and shop .* He appears to have been a man of marked individuality and to those he loved not, bitter and unrelenting, a quality of character his wife seems to have shared with him. The indiscriminate massacre of one hundred and ten defenceless Indians, men, women and children at Corlears hook, and Pavonia, on the night of February 25, 1643, instigated and ordered by Director-General Kieft, aroused in the breast of Hendrick Kip a feeling of extreme hatred for that official, and he boldly urged that he should be deposed and sent back to Holland.+ On the 30th August, 1645, the Court Messenger (Philip de Truy) was ordered to notify the inhabitants to assemble in the fort when the colors are hoisted and the bell rung, to hear the proposals for a treaty of peace about to be concluded with the Indians. The Messenger reported that all the citizens on the Manhattans " from the highest to the lowest," would attend as they all had answered kindly, except one Hendrick Kip, the tailor .¿ While the entire community were willing to show some respect for Kieft on this public occa- sion, the sturdy old burgher alone exhibited contempt for the " man of blood," and refused to do him honor.
After the departure of Gov. Kieft for Holland, which he was destined never again to reach,§ Hendrick Kip became at once one of the leading men in New Netherland. He was appointed by Gov. Stuyvesant's Council, Sept. 25, 1647, one of the board of Nine Men, selected "from the most notable, reasonable, honest, and respectable" of the citizens of the com- monalty, to assist the Director, or Governor, and Council ; this office he also held in 1649, and 1650. He was a Schepen in 1656, appointed Feb. 2d, of that year, and was admitted to the rights of a great burgher April 11, 1657.| He was probably the Hendrick op Kippenburg who was a witness, March 24, 1664, in a suit between Govert Loockermans and Burger Joris, respecting the title to land in the Smith's Valley." After the surrender of New York he took the oath of allegiance to the English in October, 1664. The name of Hendrick Kip, Senior, appears in the list of citizens who were assessed April 19, 1665, to pay the board and lodging of soldiers belonging to the city garrison .** This is the last mention found of him. The names of Hendrick and Tryntie Kip, probably his wife, are recorded in the list or register tt of old members of the Dutch Church of New Amster- dam. Opposite his name Domine Selyns has written "obyt op Kippenburg," but the date is not given. In what part of Manhattan Island, Kippenburg was located is not known ; perhaps Incleuburg, or Fire Beacon Hill,
* Valentine's Manual, 1852, p. 389.
+ May 6, 1643, Samuel Chandelaer made affidavit, that he heard Hendrick the tailor say: The Kivit (meaning the director), ought to be packed off to Holland in the Peacock, with a letter of recommendation to Master Gerrit (the public executioner), and a pound flemish, so that he may give him a nobleman's death. (Calendar N. Y. Hist. MSS. Dutch., p. 22 ; see also O'Callaghan's Hist. New Netherland, vol. I., p. 272.)
# Cal. N. Y. Hist. MSS. Dutch, p. 97 ; O'Callaghan's Hist. New Netherland, vol. I., p. 356.
§ He sailed from New Amsterdam in the Princess, August 16, 1647. On the 27th September following, the vessel was cast away on the coast of Wales near Swansea, and eighty-one persons, men, women, and children, perished, including Kieft, Fiscaal Cornelius Van der Huyghens, and the Rev. Everardus Bogardus. (O'Callaghan's Hist. New Netherland, vol. 2, p. 34.)
| O'Callaghan's Hist. New Netherland, vol. 2, P. 37, and New Netherland Register, pp. 55, 56, 62, 174. Cal. N. Y. Hist. MSS. Dutch, p. 263.
** Valentine's Manual for 1861, p. 616.
tt The following is the title-page of this register: 'T Ledematen Boeck Oft Register der Ledematen Alhier 't Sedert de Jare, 1649. (The Members' Book or the Register of the Members here at [and] since the year 1649.)
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situated near 36th Street and Fourth Avenue, and in the vicinity of the old Kip farm, was so called at the period referred to.
Concerning his wife the following is taken from the Court proceedings at New Amsterdam, Sept. 29, 1644. William de Key vs. Hendrick Kip : action for slander ; ordered that defendant's wife appear next Thursday, and acknowledge in court, that what she said to the prejudice of the plain- tiff is false, and not to repeat the offence on pain of severe punishment .* She probably acknowledged her fault, whatever it may have been-as ordered by the court, as we find no further account of the matter. On Dec. 17, 1646, the Schout-Fiscal (Cornelius Van der Huyghens) charged her before the court with calling the Director (Kieft) and Council false judges, and the Fiscal a forsworn Fiscal. Hendrick Kip states that his wife has been so upset, and so out of health, ever since Maryn Adriaensen's attempt to murder the Director General (March 21, 1643), that when dis- turbed in the least she knows not what she does. Mrs. Kip denies the charge, and the parties are ordered to produce evidence on both sides.t What further proceedings, if any, in the case were taken, the records fail to disclose. She and her husband were sponsors, July 4, 1657, at the baptism of Anthony, son of Jan Janszen Van St. Obyn (alias Jan Wanshaer), which is the last notice found of her, where her identity can be clearly established. They probably had issue.
2. i. BAERTJE HENDRICKS KIP,2 born in Amsterdam ; m. Jan. 17, 1649, Jan Janszen j. m. Van Tubingen, alias Jan Janszen Van St. Obyn, etc., alias JAN WANSHAER. In 1654 Jan Janszen Van St. Obyn is called the son-in-law of Hendrick Kip .¿ For a further account of him and his family, see Wanshaer, page 26.
3. ii. ISAAC HENDRICKSZEN KIP,2 (8) born in Amsterdam.
4. iii. JACOB HENDRICKSZEN KIP,2 (16) born in Amsterdam, May 16, 1631.
5. iv. TRYNTJE HENDRICKS KIP,2 born in Amsterdam ; m. August 10, . 1659, Abraham Janszen, Van't Zuydtlandt in't landt Van de Briel. They were the ancestors of the VAN DER HEUL FAMILY of New York. At the baptism of their children her name is recorded, Tryntie Hendricks, Tryntje Kip, and Tryntie Hendricks Kips, while his appears at the bap. of their dau. Elizabeth, Aug. 15, 1660, as Abraham J. Van der Heul, and afterwards simply as Abraham Janszen. 'Issue :
I. ELIZABETH VAN DER HEUL, bap. Aug. 15, 1660 ; m. May 16, 1682, Marten Abrahamszen Klock (Clock), of New York, son of Abraham Clock and Tryntie Alberts ; bap. Sept. 10, 1656. He was a merchant and Assistant Alderman from the Out Ward, 1695-97, and Alderman, 1698 to 1701. They had no children bap. in the Dutch Church in New York.
2. TRYNTIE VAN DER HEUL, bap. March 19, 1662 ; m. June 17, 1685, Albert Clock of New York, son of Abraham Clock and Tryntie Alberts ; bap. Sept. 26, 1660. He was Captain of the sloop Elizabeth, and commissioned by Leisler, July 3, 1690, to act against the French. Issue : Abraham, bap. Nov. 28, 1686, died young ; Abraham, bap. Jan. 18, 1688 ; Tryntie, bap. Oct. 19, 1690 ; Marten, bap. May 7, 1693 ; Johannes, bap. Feb. 2, 1696; Sara, bap. Nov. 20, 1698 ;
* Cal. N. Y. Hist. MSS. Dutch, p. 91. + Idem, p. 106.
# O'Callaghan's Index of Dutch MSS., Albany, 1870, p. 92.
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Albartus, bap. Feb. 16, 1701 ; Pieternella, bap. Dec. 8, 1703 ; and Femmetje, bap. July 10, 1706.
3. MARRITIE VAN DER HEUL, bap. Nov. 19, 1664; m. August 4, 1687, Petrus de Mill of New York, son of Anthony de Mill and Elizabeth Van der Liphorst; bap. Oct. 12, 1661. He was Sheriff of the City of New York 1700-1. Issue :. Anthony, bap. April 22, 1688, died young ; Elizabeth, bap. Oct. 13, 1689 ; Catharina, bap. Sept. 24, 1693, died young ; Catharina, bap. May 12, 1695 ; Anthony, bap. Sept. 22, 1697, died young ; Petrus, bap. May 15, 1700; Antony, bap. Nov. 22, 1702 ; Johannes, bap. May 14, 1704 ; Maria, bap. Aug. 24, 1707; and Anna, bap. Nov. 13, 1709.
4. PETRONELLA VAN DER HEUL,* bap. Oct. 31, 1668; m. June 1, 1692, Carsten Leursen, Jr. of New York, son of Carsten Leursen and Geertie Theunis Quick ; bap. July 10, 1672. Issue : Carsten, bap. March 12, 1693 ; Abraham, bap. Aug. II, 1695 ; Geertje, bap. April, 1698; and Tryntje, bap. Oct. 27, 1700.
5. FEMMETIE VAN DER HEUL, bap. Aug. 6, 1671 , m. Oct. 21, 1697, Benjamin Wynkoop, j. m. Van Kingstouwne. He was then living in New York, and was probably the son of Cor- nelius Wynkoop, an Elder of the Dutch Church at Esopus in 1671, and his wife, Marretje or Maria Jans. He followed the occupation of silversmith in New York. Issue : Cor- nelis, bap. Dec. 1, 1699, died young ; Cornelis, bap. June 22, 1701 ; Abraham, bap. July 4, 1703 ; Benjamin, bap. May 23, 1705; m. (1731?) Eunice Burr ; Catharina, bap. June 29, 1707 ; Johannes, bap. Sept. 14, 1712 ; and Maria, bap. August 29, 1714.
6. JOHANNES VAN DER HUEL, bap. Dec. 24, 1673 ; m. Nov. II, 1699, Jannetje Rosenvelt (Roosevelt) ; she was probably the dau. of Nicolaes Roosevelt and Hilletje or Helena Jans. He was a merchant in New York, and in October, 1720, part owner of the Privateer Hunter. Issue : Abraham, bap. Sept. 8, 1700, died young ; Abraham, bap. Nov. 9, 1701 ; Catha- rina, bap. Sept. 1, 1704; Nicolaas, bap. Nov. 6, 1706; Johannes, bap. Sept. 16, 1713; and Helena, bap. May 25, 1724.
7. HENDRICK VAN DER HEUL, bap. May 14, 1676 ; m. April 21, 1700, Maria Meyer, dau. of Hendrick Jilliszen Meyer and Elsje Claes Rosenvelt (Roosevelt) ; she was bap. June 25, 1679. Issue : Abraham, bap. July 6, 1701 ; m. (1727?) Maria Bound; Elizabeth, bap. March 21, 1703 ; Hendricus, bap. Nov. 1, 1704, died young ; Tryntje, bap. Jan. 1, 1707 ; Johannes, bap. June 12, 1709 ; Hendricus, bap. Nov. 2, 1712 ; m. March 25, 1736, Anna Brestede.
6. v. HENDRICK KIP, JR.,2 (27) born in Amsterdam.
7. vi. FEMMETJE KIP," she was probably bap. April 19, 1643, her father's name being recorded at the baptien, as Mr. Hendrick Hendricksz. She joined the Church in New Amsterdam Jan. 2, 1661, and was a sponsor,
* One of this name, recorded as the wife of Johann Van Tilburg, joined the Dutch Church in New York Feb. 28, 1700, but we are unable to identify her.
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July 13, 1667, at the baptism of Jacomyntie, dau. of Jan de Caper alias Wanshaer, which is the last notice found of her.
8. ISAAC HENDRICKSZEN KIP2 (3), born in Amsterdam. He was admitted to the rights of a great burgher with his father, April 11, 1657. On the 2 1st June, 1656, he and his brother Jacob obtained each a patent for a lot of land in the sheep pasture at New Amsterdam. This locality, used for the purpose indicated during nearly the whole period of the Dutch pos- session, is described by Mr. Valentine * as lying south of the city ramparts (which stretched across the Island about forty feet above the present line of Wall Street), and "covering the present Wall Street and the block between Wall Street, Exchange Place, Hanover Square, and Broad Street." Nassau Street between Ann and Spruce was originally called Kip Street after one of the family.+ Mr. Valentine says it was that part of Nassau Street below Maiden Lane, and so called in compliment to Jacob Kip the Secretary. Isaac Kip was. a Yacht Captain, engaged in the river trade between New Amsterdam and the settlements at Esopus (Kingston) and Fort Orange (Albany) .¿ In 1665 he was living in De Brouwer Straat, now Stone Street. He married first, Feb. 8, 1653, Catalyntje Hendrick Snyers (Snyder ?). She was probably the dau. of Hendrick Janszen Snyder, or Hendrick Jans- zen the tailor, and his wife Geertje Scheerburch. Mr. Valentine § says she was a daughter of Gillis Pietersen (Meyer), but he has mistaken the relation- ship. She was probably the sister-in-law of Jillis or Gillis Pietersen (Meyer) who married July 6, 1642, Elsje Hendricks, dau. of Hendrick Janszen Sny- der above named. Isaac Kip married second, Sept. 26, 1675 at New Harlem, Maria Vervelje (Vermilye), widow of Joh. (Jean) de La Montagne. By his second wife he had no issue. He was living, in December, 1675, at New Harlem, and then belonged to the first corporalship of night watch in that place. | He died prior to October 6, 1686. Issue :
9. i. HENDRICK,3 bap. Feb. 8, 1654. Mr. Holgate in his American Genealogy, pages 110-112, says that he and Jacobus (Jacob) Kip, his bro- ther, were co-patentees of the Manor of Kipsburg, a tract of land on the east side of Hudson river where Rhinebeck now stands, extending four miles along the river and several miles inland. This patent dated June 2, 1688, confirmed an Indian title to the land given July 28, 1686. He was probably the Lieut. Hendrick Kip of Capt. Baltus Van Kleeck's Company of Foot, in 1700, one of the eight Militia Companies in the counties of Ulster and Dutchess. | He married and had a number of children who settled in the vicinity of Rhinebeck.
IO. ii. TRYNTIE,3 bap. Sept. 13, 1656; m. Jan. 5, 1676, PHILIP DE FOREEST, son of Isaac and Sarah (du Trieux) De Foreest ; bap. July 28, 1652. He was a cooper, and removed from New York about 1680 to the Manor of Rensselaerswyck ; he was buried in Albany, August 18, 1727 .** Issue : Sarah, bap. Jan. 2, 1678; and the following baptized in Albany : Susanna, April 1, 1684; Metje, July 25, 1686; Isaac, Feb. 20, 1689 ; Jesse, Jan. 13, 1692 ; Catrina, Nov. 25, 1694 ; Johannes, Sept. 12, 1697 ; David, Sept. 8, 1700; and Abraham, Feb. 21, 1703.
II. iii. ABRAHAM,3 bap. Sept. 3, 1659. He removed from New York
* Valentine's Manual for 1860, pp. 527-8.
+ O'Callaghan's Hist. of New Netherland, vol. 2, p. 213.
# Valentine's Manual for 1860, pp. 574, 608.
§ Valentine's History of New York, p. 119.
Il Valentine's Manual for 1848, p. 387.
Doc. Rel. to Col. Hist. of New York, vol. 4, p. 810.
** Pearson's First Settlers of Albany, p. 38.
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to Albany where he married Oct. 16, 1687, Gessie Van der Heyden ; in 1714, his house was on the south corner of Maiden Lane and Pearl Street, Albany. He was buried at Albany, June 28, 1731, and his wife, Feb. 9, 1748. They had issue baptized in Albany as follows : Isaac,4 Nov. 18, 1688; Anna,4 Dec. 20, 1691, died young ; Anna,4 June 17, 1694; m. at Albany, Nov. 29, 1716, Johannes Evertse Wendel ; Catelyntie,4 Aug. 8, 1697; m. 1719 (?) her cousin, Anthony Kip4 (30) ; Jacob4 and .Cornelia, 4 twins, July 20, 1701. Cornelia4 m. at Albany July 5, 1724, Teunis Arentse Slingerland, widower of Elizabeth Vanderzee, and was buried there March 16, 1745; Geertruy4 and Catharina,4 twins, Jan. 24, 1705 ; Geertruy, m. at Albany, Dec. 17, 1730, Simon Veeder, and was buried there, July 20, 1746 .*
12. iv. ISAAC3 (28), bap. Jan. 15, 1662.
13. v. JACOB3 bap. Nov. 19, 1664 ; died young.
14. vi. JACOB,3 bap. Aug. 29, 1666. He is probably the Jacobus Kip born Aug. 25, 1666, mentioned by Holgate as the co-patentee with Hen- drick3 (9) of the Manor of Kipsburg, and who died Feb. 28, 1753. Mr. Holgate makes a mistake which is followed by Bishop Kip in saying that he was twice married, and first to Mrs. Henrietta (Hendrickje) Wessels, widow of Gulian Verplanck. It was his cousin Jacobus3 (18) who married this lady. He married Rachel Swartwout, and though Bishop Kip calls her the daughter of John Swarthout (Swartwout), Esq., I think it more probable that she was the dau. of Roeloff Swartwout, first Sheriff of Wiltwyck, at the Esopus, and commissioned Dec. 24, 1689, a Justice of Ulster County. Both Bishop Kip and Mr. Holgate give the date of her birth April 10, 1669, and her death Sept. 16, 1717. She was living Oct. 2, 1726, and with her husband, then called Jacob Kip, Senior, was sponsor at the baptism of Rachel, daughter of their son Isaac.
They had issue :
i. ISAAC,4 born Jan. 8, 1696 ; m. Jan. 7, 1720, Cornelia, dau. of Leonard and Elizabeth (Hardenburg) Lewis ; she was born Nov. 9, 1692 ; bap. Dec. 11, 1692, and died July 10, 1772 ; he died July 2, 1762.+ They had the fol- lowing named children bap. in the Dutch Church at New York : Elizabeth, bap. April 9, 1721 ; Jacob,' bap. Oct. 17, 1722 ; Leonard,5 bap. June 27, 1725 ; m. April 11, 1763, Elizabeth, dau. of Francis and Anneke (Lyn- sen) Marschalk, of New York ; she was bap. July 30, 1732 ; through them Bishop Kip of California traces his ancestral line. Rachel, bap. Oct. 2, 1726; and Elizabeth,5 bap. Aug. 28, 1728. To these Bishop Kip adds Isaac, born 1732, and Abraham who m. Jan. 6, 1768, Dorothea Remsen.
ii. ROELOFF,4 of Kipsburg, from whom that branch of the family descended. He died during the Revolution, aged 90 years.}
15. vii. JOHANNES, bap. Jan. 20, 1669. iii. CATALYNTIE,4 bap. at Albany, Feb. 18, 1705.
16. JACOB HENDRICKSZEN KIP2 (4) born in Amsterdam May 16, 1631. In August (?), 1647, he gave to Harman Hendricksen Droogh, his uncle, a
* Pearson's First Settlers of Albany, pp. 68, 102, 141, 149. Munsell's Annals of Albany, vol. 1, p. 237.
t Hist. Notes of the Family of Kip of Kipsburg and Kip's Bay, New York, 1871.
# Hist. Notes of the Family of Kip of Kipsburg and Kip's Bay, New York, 1871.
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power of attorney to receive money due him from the West India Company at Amsterdam. The same year he was a clerk in the provincial Secretary's office at New Amsterdam, and, as early as Dec., 1649, was acting clerk to Director Stuyvesant's Council .* He was appointed, Jan. 27, 1653, the first Secretary of the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens of New Amster- dam. Upon his resignation of that office June 12, 1657, he engaged in Brewing, combining with this business that of a general trader or store- keeper.t He was a member of the board of Schepens in 1659, 1662, 1663, 1665, 1673, and president of the board in 1674. " On the Ist of March, 1660, Aert Anthonissen Middagh, Teunis Gysberts Bogart, Jean Le Clerc, Gerrit Hendrick Backer, Philip Barchstoel, Christina Cappoens, JACOB KIP, and Joris Rapalje, all residents of the Waal-boght neighborhood, peti- tioned the Director for permission to form a village ' on the margin of the river between the lands of said Bogart and KIP, so that,' as they expressed it, 'we may be in sight of the Manhatans, or Fort Amsterdam.' The position selected was probably the elevated point of land which jutted into the river about the foot of South Fourth Street, in the present Eastern Dis- trict of Brooklyn, and which was known in the ancient time as the 'Keike' or 'Lookout.' " į There is no evidence, remarks the learned historian of Brooklyn, that Jacob Kip ever resided on the lands above referred to, and " it was probably owing to his desire to improve the value of his real estate, by securing the establishment of a village thereon, that this petition was made," and through his influence with the authorities, was granted.
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