Searching marriages
from FamilySearch.org we find that Henrick Henrixsz(en) married Trijntje
Lubberts on May 5, 1624 at Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. [Indexing Project
No. M01225-2. Source Film No. 113358.] [Indexing Project No. M90102-1. Source
Film No. 113364
Various books printed
between 1848 and 1928 give a brief history of the De Kype family from Ruloff De
Kype born in 1510 up to the Hendrick De Kype born in 1576. This Hendrick De Kype is supposed to have
taken part in the Company of Foreign Countries. It is said he also married Margaret De Marneil
and came to New Amsterdam with his family in 1635.
A search of the
internet for the names De Kype and De Marneil bring forward miscellaneous
references to The Kip Family in America book plus others which have no
relevance to us. So I do not know where
these names came from.
None of the books,
a list of which is provided in the bibliography provides a source for this
information. The first mention of this
is contained in American Genealogy, by Jerome B. Holgate, p. 109, 1848 and The
Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, by Benson J. Lossing. Vol. II, p. 81,
1852.
All subsequent
books or publications cite these two sources, with an attempt to correct some
of the lineage by Edwin R. Purple in Contributions to the History of the Kip Family
of New York and New Jersey, 1877.
Early records of
New Amsterdam and New York often refer to Hendrick Hendricksen, the tailor or
snyer or snyder. There was a second Hendrick
the tailor in New Amsterdam as well, who was Hendrick Janszen Snyder. This man was the father of Catalyntje
Hendricks Snyers who married Isaac Hendricksen Kip a son of Hendrick
Hendricksen.
According to
Fredric E Kipp, in his book on page 19 there is a reference to the Records of
Old West India Company, No. 14, LXXV fol. 90 vo, as follows.
The Minutes of the
Directors of Amsterdam, Holland, record that “Henrick Henricksen Snijder
requests for account of Henrick Jansen Snijder according to the bill of
exchange, dated Aug. 15, 1635 and signed by Wouter van Twiller and Martin
Gerritsen, the amount of 326 gilders, 19 stivers, 8 pennies.”
His request was
referred to the Commissioners for New Netherland. Thus he was living in Amsterdam before 1636. (I have
not seen this reference.)
The Manatus Map
made in 1639, shows the Plantation of the tailor as No. 45 on the map. Fredric E Kip has speculated that this is
Henrdick Hendricksen Kip. Stokes in The
Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 to 1909, New York, 1956, in the section
dealing with The Manatus Maps The First Survey of Manhattan Island 1639 does
not indicate who Snyder or the Tailor was.
On this tract of land the village of New Harlem was laid out.
The first mention of the surname Kip in the records would appear to be March 4, 1643 when Hendrick Snyder Kip said about the Director of the Colony Kieft, “We ought to send the Kievit back to Holland in the Peacock. & etc.” [History of New Netherland or New York Under The Dutch, by E.B. O’Callaghan, Vol. 1, Second edition, D. Appleton & Company, 1855. P. 272.]
On April 28, 1643
Hendrick obtained a patent for a lot east of the fort on Bridge Street near
Whitehall where he erected a house and shop.
In 1647 he was chosen as one of the first Board of "Nine Men"
to act as Governing Tribunal for New Amsterdam. Apparently he was satirically called
"Hendrick Kip of the haughty lip" because he was strong and fearless.
He also held office again in 1649 and
1650. He was appointed a Grand Schepen on
Feb. 2, 1656, and on April 11, 1657 he was admitted to the Rights of a Great
Burgher. Thus he took an important part
in the government of New Amsterdam. After New Amsterdam was surrendered, he took
the Oath of Allegiance to the English in October 1664.
His will (found in
the Kip Family papers, Manuscript Division, New York Public Library) apparently
was never officially recorded. It was
drawn by notary Willem Bogardus. Since
both will and accounting cite the notary, it seems likely that Bogardus, who
was city treasurer 1680-85 and later postmaster of New York province, entrusted
the papers to Hendrick's son Jacob, especially since Jacob, who served five
terms as city schepen, aided in administering the estate. His 7800 guilder estate was a substantial one
for that time period. Will dated Feb. 2,
1671; Codicil dated Aug. 4, 1680; Estate accounting March 8, 1686.
Conclusion:
Many books (from
1848 to 1928) give him an ancestry with the surname De Kype. None of these books provide a source for this
information and the current maintainer of the Kip/Kipp Family in America database
has found no evidence to indicate it is true. It would appear his Dutch surname was
Hendricksen or Henrixsz or Henrixsen and that sometime between when he arrived
in New Amsterdam about 1637 and March 1643 he assumed the surname Kip. This could be described as a "dit"
name, since there were several others in New Amsterdam and New England with the
surname Hendricksen and also another tailor Hendrick Jansen Snyder, sometimes
referred to as Hendrick the tailor.
This conclusion is
supported by a recently found reference in a 1909 book “History of the City of
New York in the Seventeenth Century,” by Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer. In Chapter VII she talks about variations in
names used in New Amsterdam and she comments
“For instance, the first bearer of a name now honorably known in many
parts of America was a tailor whose signature for years was Hendrick
Hendricksen but afterwards Hendrick Hendricksen Kip – kip meaning a hen or the
band that ties a bundle of dried fish.”
However,
the family has used the surname Kip or Kipp since about 1643 so I do not think
we are about to change.
Bibliography:
American Genealogy,
Being A History of Some of the Early Settlers of North America and Their
Descendants, from Their First Emigration to the Present Time, & Etc. By
Jerome B. Holgate. Albany, NY: Joel Munsell. 1848.
The Pictorial
Field-Book of the Revolution & etc. By Benson J. Lossing. In two volumes.
Vol. II. New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. 1851.
Manual of the
Corporation of the City of New York, for 1852. By D.T. Valentine. New York, NY:
George P. Putnam. 1852.
Cyclopedia of
American Literature & etc. By Evert A. Duyckinck and George L. Duycjinck.
In two volumes. Vol. II. New York, NY: Charles Scribner. 1866.
Historical Notes of
the Family of Kip of Kipsburg and Kip’s Bay, New York. Privately printed.
Albany, NY: Joel Munsell. 1871.
Contributions to
the History of the Kip Family of New York and New Jersey. By Edwin R. Purple.
New York, NY: Privately Printed. 1877.
American Family
Antiquity. By Albert Welles. Vol. II. Kip Family. New York, NY: American
College for Genealogical Registry and Heraldry. 1881.
Contributions to
the History of Ancient Families of New Amsterdam and New York. By Edwin R. Purple.
With additions by Samuel S. Purple. New York, NY: Privately Printed. 1881.
Abstract of Title
of Kip’s Bay Farm in the City of New York, & etc. Also Early History of the
Kip Family and The Genealogy as Refers to the Title. By John J. Post. New York,
NY: S. Victor Constant. 1894.
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New York. & etc. Vol. I. By Margherita Arlina Hamm. New York, NY: G.P.
Putnam’s Sons. 1902.
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O’Callaghan. New York, NY: D. Appleton & Co. 1855.
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O’Callaghan. New York, NY: D. Appleton & Co. 1855.
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to the Colonial History of New-York; Procured in Holland, England and France.
Vol. I. By John Romeyn Brodhead. Edited by E.B. O’Callaghan. Albany, NY: Weed.
Parson and Co., Printers. 1856.
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Documents in the Royal Archives of The Hague. Holland Documents: VIII – XVI.
1657-1678.
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Documents in the Queen’s State Paper Office. London Documents: I – VIII.
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Franklin Jameson. New York, NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1909.
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Family in America. By Frederic Ellsworth Kip. Assisted by Margarita Lansing
Hawley. 1928
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