Contributions To The History Of The Kip Family Of New York And New Jersey Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Contributions to the History of the Kip Family of New York and New Jersey The Kip Family is one of the oldest in New York, and as it was among the earliest, so it was likewise one of the most respectable in New Amsterdam. After the lapse of two hundred and forty years, but little change has occurred in the spelling of the name, the chief and only one of which we are aware, being the addition of another p, by a limited number of some of the different branches of the family. Kip is the present generally accepted orthography of the name, and this appears to be in accordance with the early usage of the progenitors of the family in New York. The English equivalent for the Dutch word Kip is Hen or Chicken, and by following Mr. Mark Antony Lower's ingenious method of accounting for surnames, the curious may here find the true significance of the name, and will, perhaps, the more readily be led to assume that this is its proper derivative, from the fact that a game-cock, it is said, was one of the crests that surmounted the arms of the first of the family of whom there is any notice in history. It is proposed in the following monograph to trace particularly the pedigree of Gerrit Kip, son of Abraham Kip, and Maria Van den 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 researches 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 agreeing 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Historical Notes of the Family of Kip of Kipsburg and Kip's Bay, New York VII. Leonard, b. 1725. He was aloyalist during the revo lution, and though incapacitated by ill health from taking any active part in the contest, yet his principles were well known; and several of the family being in the British army, during his absence from the city, the greater part of his property was confiscated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Historical Notes of the Family of Kip of Kipsburg and Kip's Bay, New York By William Kip Excerpt The De Kype family was originally settled for a long period near Alencon in Bretagne. The first of whom there is any notice in history is: I. Ruloff de Kype. In the sixteenth century, he was a warm adherent of the Guises, and took prominent part, in that section of the country, in the civil war between the Catholics and Protestants. On the triumph of the Protestants, under Conde, in 1562, his chateau was taken and burned, and he was forced to fly. He took refuge in the Low Countries with his three sons, w here they lived for several years under an assumed name. In 1569, with his son Henri, he reentered France, joined the army of the Duke of Anjou, and on the 13th of March, fell in the battle fought on the banks of La Charante, near Jarnac. By the care of his son, Jean Baptiste, who was a priest, he was buried in a small church in the neighborhood of Jarnac, where an altar tomb was erected to his memory, which was destroyed with the church during the French revolution, at the close of the last century. the inscription on the tomb mentioend him as ruloff de Kype, Ecuyer, and was surmounted by his arms, with two crests, one a game cock, the other a demi-griffin holding a cross, both of which crests have been used by different branches of the family in this country. He left issue: Henri, who after his father's death, entered the army of one of the Italian princes where he spent his life; Jean baptiste, priest in the Church of Rome; Ruloff, of whom, next following. II. Ruloff had remained in the Low Countries, where he became a Protestant and settled at Amsterdam. He seems to have dropped from his name the French prefix De. He was born in 1544 and died in 1596, leaving issue: Hendrick, of whom next following. III. Hendrick (in Eng. Henry), "b." in 1576. We copy the following account of him from Duyckinck: "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, dispatched 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. Henry Kype came to New Amsterdam in 1635. He returned to Holland, but his sons remained, and rose to important positions as... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Windham Press is committed to bringing the lost cultural heritage of ages past into the 21st century through high-quality reproductions of original, classic printed works at affordable prices. This book has been carefully crafted to utilize the original images of antique books rather than error-prone OCR text. This also preserves the work of the original typesetters of these classics, unknown craftsmen who laid out the text, often by hand, of each and every page you will read. Their subtle art involving judgment and interaction with the text is in many ways superior and more human than the mechanical methods utilized today, and gave each book a unique, hand-crafted feel in its text that connected the reader organically to the art of bindery and book-making. We think these benefits are worth the occasional imperfection resulting from the age of these books at the time of scanning, and their vintage feel provides a connection to the past that goes beyond the mere words of the text.