Isaac Kipp one of my 2x Great Grandfather
Edward
Kipp
Isaac
Kipp (Nov. 1, 1764 - Aug. 6, 1846) my 2 x Great grandfather
m. Hannah
Meed August 29, 1790, probably Nine Partners Patent, North East, Dutchess
County, New York.
The
family story is that Isaac Kipp (Nov. 1, 1764 - Aug. 6, 1846 - family bible)
(the elder), my gg grandfather, came from Dutchess County, New York. He settled in Upper Canada in October 1800. He may have come to Upper Canada because of
the offer of land made by Governor Simcoe in the early 1790's, as did many
prominent people such as Thomas Hornor, who founded Blenheim Township, Oxford
County, Ontario in 1793. He may also
have known about Hornor's Governor's Road Settlement (Princeton) if he was from
N.Y. State, since Hornor was from the area of Princeton, N.J. The Hornor family was Quaker and had connections
with Long Island families.
The 1851
Census of Canada West, East Oxford Township, Oxford County has listings for two
of his sons, Isaac and David. Isaac said
he was born in N.Y. State. David said he
was born in the U.S.A. Isaac the elder
and three of his older children Jonathan, James and John were dead by then so
they are not on the Census.
The 1790
Census of the United States has an Isaac Kipp and wife (no children) living in
Northeast, Dutchess County, N.Y. They
were living next to Jonathan Meed and family. There is no Isaac Kipp and family there in the
1800 Census. There were many Quaker
families in this area.
The 1800
Census of the United States has an Isaac Kipp and wife living in
Rensselaerville, Albany County, N.Y. They
have children: 3 males to 10 and 1 male 10 to 20. If this is my family, there is one son missing.
It is
possible that Isaac and Hannah moved from Dutchess County sometime after 1790,
stopped in Albany County near Rensselaerville and were recorded in 1800 US
Census and then proceeded across New York State by established routes to cross
the Niagara River and then proceeded across Upper Canada to Oxford County. They could also have taken a lake boat and
landed along Lake Erie and proceeded inland to Oxford County.
DNA Study
Several
years ago I submitted a DNA sample to the National Genographic Project and
subsequently uploaded those results to the FT DNA website where I established a
KIP/KIPP family DNA study. Since then other
individuals have tested their y-DNA and joined the KIP/KIPP DNA study at FT
DNA). Three of the six individuals match
my first 12 markers exactly and one of the three individuals has taken his
markers to 37 and we match 35/37 where the difference is in CDYa/b which are
considered to be fast moving markers and any familial differences often appear
in these markers within family lines. This
individual has a paper trail back to the de Kype (Kip) family of New Amsterdam
who emigrated between 1636 and 1643 to New Amsterdam now the present day New
York City. I still have a brickwall with
my gg grandfather Isaac Kipp in Dutchess County, New York (born 1764). I have never found out who his parents were. I continue to try to find the paper trail back
to Hendrick Hendricksen [Kip] in New Amsterdam.
Interestingly,
the haplogroup for this set of markers is R1b1b2a1a which is thought to be
Frisian (i.e. that grouping of peoples who lived along the northwestern
European coastline between the Atlantic and Denmark and within a 100 miles of
Amsterdam).
1. Edward Kipp
2. Lorne Bernice Kipp (b Sept. 3, 1901) - Gobles, Oxford Co. ON, Canada
(m Phyllis Link)
3. William Henry Kipp (b Oct. 1, 1862) - Burford Twp, Brant Co., Canada
West (m Ida Caroline Schultz)
4. Benjamin Kipp (b Mar. 26, 1811) - Burford Twp, Brant Co., Upper
Canada (m Elizabeth Force)
5.Isaac Kipp (b Nov. 1, 1764) - New York (m Hannah Meed)
6. DNA
7. DNA
8. DNA
9. Isaac Hendricksen Kip (b Jan 1627) - Amsterdam, Noord-Holland,
Netherlands (m Catalyntje Hendrick Snyers)
10. Hendrick Hendricksen [Kip] (b cir 1600) – Netherlands (m Tryntie
Lubberts)
Sources:
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BIRTH and MARRIAGE dates:
From the Family Bible of Richard Titus Kipp (in the possession of the
author)
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PETITION FOR LAND:
(Archives of Ontario - Upper Canada Land Patents -- K Bundle 1797-1799
& 1800-1802, Group 5, #22 (Isaac Kipp) 3p. Also, National Archives of
Canada - mf C-2117)
To His Excellency Peter Hunter Esquire Lieut Governor of the Province of
Upper Canada ---- in Council
The Petition of Isaac Kipp of the Township of Blenheim, Farmer
Humbly therewith --
That your Petitioner has been about nine months in the Province, with
his Family consisting of a wife and five children that he has a yoke of oxen,
two cows & farming utensils -- agreeably to the annexed certificate and
that being desirous to settle in the Province, your petitioner humbly prays
your Excellency would be pleased to grant him a Lot on Dundas Street for
improvement, and as in Duty bound your petitioner shall ever pray --
Isaac Kipp (signed) York 6th
August 1801
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OATH OF ALLEGIANCE:
Oath of Allegiance taken by Thomas Hornor on August 7, 1801.
(Original is found in the Brant County Museum, Brantford, Ontario.)
(Archives of Ontario - Upper Canada Land Patents -- K Bundle 1797-1799
& 1800-1802, Group 5, #22 (Isaac Kipp) 3p. Also, National Archives of
Canada - mf C-2117)
This may Certify that the bearer Isaac Kipp has been an Inhabitant of
this Country since last October, he has a wife & five Children, is a very
industrious man and has a yoke of oxen, two milk cows and one Calf &
farming utensils for the use of a farm -- and has taken the Oath of Allegiance
as prescribed by law.
Thomas Hornor J.P. (signed)
Blenheim August 8th 1801
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ORDER-IN-COUNCIL (OC):
(Archives of Ontario - Upper Canada Land Patents -- K Bundle 1797-1799
& 1800-1802, Group 5, #22 (Isaac Kipp) 3p. Also, National Archives of
Canada - mf C-2117)
No. 22 Isaac Kipp Rec. 17 Aug't 1801
Read in Council 18 August Recommended for 200 acres subject to the
Settling Duties.
App. Hr. Peter Russell
Warrant paid 31 August 1801 to Mr. Joseph Willcock.
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AFFIDAVIT:
(Archives of Ontario - Township Papers, East Oxford, lot 1 concession 1,
3p.)
Home District Before me William
Allan Esquire of York to wit
His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for
the Home District personally came and appeared Isaac Kipp of the
Township of Burford yeoman and made oath that there are five acres cleared and
under cultivation on Lot Number one in the first concession of the Township of
Oxford on Dundas Street Eastern Division. That a House of Sixteen by twenty is
erected on the said Lot and that half the allowance for road in front of the
said Lot is completely cleared.
Sworn before me this 3rd December 1810 W. Allan J.P (signed)
Isaac Kipp (signed)
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RECEIPT:
(Archives of Ontario - Township Papers, East Oxford, lot 1 concession 1,
3p.)
Reg 346 Receiver Generals
Office York the 3 December 1810
Isaac Kipp has paid into this Office Two Pounds ten shillings Provincial
Currency the 2d of Patent Fees on 200 acres of Land. Being Lot No. 1, 1st Con
in Dundas Street Oxford E. Division Reg 1797
2.10 pound Provl Currency to the Acting Surveyor Gen'l
P. Selby Rec. Gen'l (signed)
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DESCRIPTION OF THE GRANT:
(Archives of Ontario - Township Papers, East Oxford, lot 1 concession 1)
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CROWN PATENT:
(Archives of Ontario - Land Patents - Lib. LA, Folio 356):
East Oxford Township, Oxford County, Ontario. Lot 1 Concession 1.
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Isaac served in the County of Oxford Militia under Thomas Hornor. His name appears on a pay list dated June 4,
1805. An Isaac Kipp was also in the First Flank Company
of the First Regiment of Oxford Militia as indicated by the pay list dated July
21, 1812 (could have been his son Isaac).
(Will - Surrogate Court, Court House, Woodstock, Ontario.
Non-contentious, Isaac Kipp. No. 45, Grant No. 45)
(Index of Wills of Oxford County 1805-1870, Oxford County Branch, OGS)
Isaac Kipp died on August 6, 1846. In his will he mentions his sons
Isaac, Benjamin, Richard, David, Daniel and John. He also mentions his wife
Hannah, his daughter Eliza Reece, a granddaughter Hannah Reece and his daughter
Susan Lawrence and her husband Samuel. The executors of his will were his wife
Hannah, John Jackson, George Lowthian, Innkeeper, and William Force. The
estimated value of his goods and chattels was 106 pounds and 10 shillings. This
included such items as one yearling steer, two calves, one yolk of oxen, three
horses, and five sheep, etc.
1851 Census of Canada West:
East Oxford Township. Oxford Co. has listings for two of his sons, Isaac
and David. Isaac said he was born in N.Y. State. David said he was born in the U.S.A. Isaac the elder and three of his older
children Jonathan, James and John were dead by then so are not on the Census.
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LAND DEALINGS:
Isaac deeded lot 1 concession 1 of East Oxford Township to two of his
sons, the east 100 acres to John in 1817 and the west 100 acres to David in
1818. He then bought land on lot 11
concession 1 of Burford Township, Brant County, about one mile east of
Princeton, Ontario. He bought this land
from James Smiley on July 10, 1809 (NE 50 acres) for 21 pounds 17 shillings 6
pence (Memorial 276, con 1 lot 11 Burford Township, Oxford County Registry
Office, Woodstock, Ontario). On May 14,
1815 he purchased a further 89 acres.
On an 1824 voter's list for Oxford County Isaac was on lot 24 concession
1 of Burford Township and voted for Thomas Hornor and James Racey. In 1835, when Isaac was 71, this farm was
transferred to his son Richard Titus on a life lease. Isaac died in 1846. The farm was sold to James Lewis in 1857. Part of this farm was bought by William Rabb
in 1916. He married Ella Kipp, a
great-granddaughter of Isaac Kipp, the elder.
On November 10, 1821, James Kipp, a son of Isaac Kipp. the elder, bought
98 acres of the west half of concession 1 lot 13, Burford Township from John
Doyle for 50 pounds of lawful money of the Province of Upper Canada. However, James was bonded to his father for
the sum of 400 pounds on November 20, 1821. The bond said that his father had bought the
farm for the purpose of bestowing it upon James and that Isaac was determined
to reserve a certain portion of the pine timber now growing on the west half of
lot 13, a sufficient quantity for building and fencing; timber for the use of
the farm on which Isaac was now residing, lot 11 concession 1 Burford Township.
James became ill several years later. His will made out and dated March 1, 1825 is
in the possession of Mrs. Ethel (Kipp) Brinker (deceased), of Princeton,
Ontario. The rag paper has a watermark containing the date 1820 in large sized
numbers which are easily seen when the paper is held up to the light.
The will bequeathed to his father 49 acres of the south west corner of
lot 13 and to his mother one two year old heifer. The remainder of the estate was divided among
his brothers and sisters. James marked his will with shaking hand in the
presence of Levi R. Brown, Samuel Doyle and William Slawson. The executors of the will were Henry Slawson,
Jacob Goble, and William King Cornish. James died on March 6, 1825.
A Quit Claim was issued on March 19, 1825 in which David Kipp, a son of
Isaac Kipp, the elder, obtained the whole of the north west 49 acres of lot 13
for the sum of 20 pounds lawful money to each of: Isaac Kipp of Oxford, heir-at-law of James
Kipp, John Kipp of Oxford, Jonathan Kipp of Oxford, Henry Reece and wife
Elizabeth of Burford, Robert Lucas Gillam and wife Phebe of Dumfries, and Susan
Kipp of Burford, spinster.
Isaac Kipp, the elder, passed on the southwest quarter of lot 13 to his
son David on January 3, 1846. David sold
the west half of lot 13 to his son David Jr. on August 30, 1870. After David Jr. died, his son Walter obtained
the farm from his mother Elizabeth on a life lease in 1906. Walter's son Delmer bought the farm in 1935. Delmer ran a wholesale butter business and his
brother Donald farmed the land. The farm
was sold to Eugene Horvath in 1957. The
original house built on lot 13 still stands in a remodeled state. Ten inch thick hand hewn squared timbers were
used. There was a massive oak front door
with large double lock and large key.
