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Note: Henrick Henrixsz. In 1624 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, his trade was tailor. His name was �b�Hendrick Hendriksen or Hendrixse or Henrixsz�/b�. At this time they did not use the surname Kip.
Records in the Netherlands refer to the betrothal of Heyndrik Heyndrixse of Niewenhuys, age 24, to Tryntje Lubberts from Swoll, age 25, orphan, betrothed in Amsterdam on 20 April 1624. Hendrick and Tryntje had seven children, six baptized in the Netherlands between 1625 and 1636 and one baptized in New Amsterdam in 1643.
�b�On 20 April 1624 Hendrick Hendricksz [KIP] and Tryntje Lubberts announced their marriage intentions in Amsterdam. He gives as his place of origin Niewenhuys, which is probably Nyhuizum, a village just a few miles east of Workum in Friesland, close to the Zuiderzee. His bride came from Zwolle, a city in Overijssel, also situated close to the Zuiderzee (now IJsselmeer). �/b� �b�This is what the record says:�/b� �b��i�20 April 1624�/b��/i� �b��i�Heyndrick Heyndrixsz, van�/b��/i� �b��i�Niewenhuys, snyder, out 24 jaren, geasst~ met�/b��/i� �b��i�zyn swager Blomert Sanders, 9 ans woon~ inde Servetsteeg�/b��/i� �b��i�& Tryntie Lubberts, van Swoll, out 25 jaren, geen�/b��/i� �b��i�ouders hebbend, a puero woon~ inde Angelierstraet, geass~�/b��/i� �b��i�met haer nigte Annetie Heyndrix�/b��/i� �b��i�[signed] Hendrick Hendricxsen, Trineke Loebes�/b��/i� �b��i�DTB 429p86 - Huwelijksintekeningen in de kerk �/b��/i� �b�Translation:�/b� �b��i�20 April 1624�/b��/i� �b��i�Heyndrick Heyndricksz, from�/b��/i� �b��i�Niewenhuys, tailor, 24 years old, assisted by�/b��/i� �b��i�his brother-in-law Blomert Sanders, since 9 years living in the Servetsteeg,�/b��/i� �b��i�was betrothed to Tryntie Lubberts, from Zwolle, 25 years old, parents�/b��/i� �b��i�dead, since childhood living in the Anjeliersstraat, assisted�/b��/i� �b��i�by her cousin Annetie Heyndrix�/b��/i� �b��i�[signed] Hendrick Hendricxsen, Trineke Loebes�/b��/i� �b��i�DTB 429p86 '96 Marriage intentions in the church�/b��/i�
Searching marriages from �b�FamilySearch.org�/b� indicate 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]
According to Frederic 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." (I have not seen this reference.) His request was referred to the Commissioners for New Netherland. Thus he was living in Amsterdam before 1636.
The last date they've been found in New Amsterdam so far is the baptism of daughter Tryntje on June 8, 1636.
In the New Netherland Register of the Provincial Secretary 1638-1642, there is a Hendrick Hendricksz mentioned for the date June 27, 1639.
In the New Netherland Council Minutes 1638-1749, Hendrick Kip is mentioned on the date February 19, 1643.
In the New Netherland Register of the Provincial Secretary 1642-1647, on April 16, 1643 "Hendrick Hendricksen Kyp" witnessed a settlement by Gertruyt Jacobs on her children '96 New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch; Vol. II, Register of the Provincial Secretary 1642 '96 1647; Translated by Arnold J. F. van Laer (1974), pp. 115 '96 116 [original document # 51c].
Then on April 19, 1643 "Mr. Hendrick Hendricksz." bp. daughter Femmetje at the New Amsterdam Reform Dutch Church. The lone witness was Jsac Hendrickszen '96 possibly his son, who would have been 16.
On April 28, 1643, "Hendrick Hendricksz Kip" was granted a lot in New Amsterdam located east of the fort -- New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch; Volumes GG, HH, & II, Land Papers, Translated and Edited by Charles Gehring (1980); p. 17 [original document #GG 57].
On Oct 24, 1643, he signed (as Hendrick Hendricksen Kyp) a resolution adopted by the commonality of the Manhattans '96 Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York ... ed. by E. B. O'Callaghan, vol 1, pp. 191-192.
On the Manatus map of 1639 there are two plantations shown as belonging to a tailor (snyder). One is #25 shown belonging to Hendric de Snyder and the other is #45 shown simply as Plan. van snyder. #25 is at the southern end in or near New Amsterdam; #45 is way up north in what became Harlem.
I. N. Phelps Stokes in his Iconography of Manhattan Island ... vol 2, pp. 197-198 traces land records that appear to show that #25 belonged to Hendrick Janszen, a tailor who was known to be in New Amsterdam as early as 1638.
As to #45, Stokes was not able to tell to whom it belonged (vol. 2, p. 205).
Frederic E. Kip in his History of the Kip Family in America (1928) says that the "van Snyder" of #45 "undoubtedly refers to Hendrick Kip" (p. 23). Later on that same page he says "Possibly Hendrick Kip's earliest residence in Manhattan was on this plantation in New Harlem."
However, I [Howard Swain] am skeptical because that would mean he was in New Netherland for four years without leaving any records especially since he seems to have been a man of substance: He was a Great Burgher and was chosen to be one of the Nine Men, for example. After 1643 there are many records left by him.
So, it seems we can say that the family arrived possibly before June 8, 1639 and definitely before February 9, 1643.
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 �b�Kip Family papers, NYPL - image available online�/b�) 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.
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 I have not found any evidence to indicate it is true. It would appear his Dutch surname was Hendricksen or Henrixsz and that sometime between when he arrived in New Amsterdam between 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 with the surname Hendricksen and also another tailor Hendrick Jansen Snyder, sometimes refered to as Hendrick the tailor.
He may also have been given the surname Kype, Kyp or Kip by his friends. Kip means "chicken" in German, but Hendrick was anything but that as he stood up to authority. The motto on the Kip crest that appears in many books "Vestigia nulla retrorsum" means Footsteps no backward or Never go back.
SONS: Isaac Kip's descendants settled in Rhinebeck,NY. Jacob Kip's descendants settled in Kip's Bay, NY, and Westchester Co., N.Y. Hendrick Kip settled at New Amstel on the Delaware River and then at Midout (Flatbush), Long Island.
Sources: Dutch Records at the New York State Archives. The New York Researcher, V. 27, N. 3. Pgs. 56-60. Fall 2016. Article by James D. Folts. And Monica Gray New Netherland Institute website: www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/research/online-publications
17th Century Hollanders http://17thcenturyhollanders.pbworks.com/w/page/63040141/Hendrick%20Hendricksz%20Kip
History of The Kip Family In America, by Frederic E. Kip and Margarita L. Hawley, 1928. No. 1, p. 19.
Contributions to the History of the Kip Family of New York and New Jersey, by Edwin R. Purple, 1877.
How Hendrick Kip Bequeathed His Estate. de Halve Maen, Vol. XXXVII, No. 3, Oct, 1962. p. 9, 10, 12. Translation of document(s) from the "Kip Family Papers."
Kip Family Papers, 1664-1845. 22 items (1 box, 1 folder). New York Public Library, Humanities - Manuscripts & Archives. MssCol 1651.
History of New Netherland or New York Under the Dutch, by E.B. O'Callaghan, Vol. 1, second edition, New York, 1855.
Preakness and the Preakness Reformed Church, Passaic County, New Jersey. A History 1695-1902, with Genealogical Notes, the Records of the Church and Tombstone Inscriptions, by George Warne Labaw, New York, 1902.
The Register of New Netherland 1626 to 1674. By E.B. O'Callaghan. Clearfield Co., Baltimore, MD. 1995.
Pre-Revolutionary Dutch Houses and Families, in Northern New Jersey and Southern New York. By Rosalie Fellows Bailey. TheHolland Society of New York. William Morrow & Co., New York, 1936.
Calendar of Dutch Historical Manuscripts in the Office of the Secretary of State Albany, New York 1630-1664, by Edmund B. O'Callaghan, The Gregg Press, Ridgewood, NJ, 1968.
P. 91. Council Minutes, Vol. IV, p. 203. Sept. 29, 1644. Court Proceedings. William de Key vs. Hendrick Kip, slander; ordered that defendant's wife appear next Thursday and acknowledge in court, that whay she stated to the prejudice of the plaintiff is false, and not repeat the offense on pain of severer punishment.
P. 97. Council Minutes, Vol. IV, p. 232. Aug. 30, 1645. Order. To the court messanger to notify all inhabitants to assemble at the fort ......; the court messange reports that all the citizens on the Manhattans, "from the highest to the lowest," will attend, as they all answered kindly, except one Hendrick Kip, a tailor.
P. 106. Council Minutes, Vol. IV, p. 278, 9. Dec. 17, 1646. Court Proceedings. Fiscal vs. Hendrick Kip's wife, for calling the director and council false judges, and the fiscal a forsworn fiscal; Hendrick Kip states that his wife has been upset, and so out of health ever since Maryn Adriaensen's attempt to murder the director-general, that when disturbed in the least, she knows not what she does; Mrs. Kip denies the charge; parties ordered to produce evidence on both sides.
P. 373. Land Papers, Vol. G.G., p. 187. March 14, 1647. Patent. Abraham Planck; lot between Hendrick Kip and Peter van der Linden, Manhattan island.
P. 54. Register of Provincial Secretary, Vol. III, p. 92. Aug. 29, 1651. Deed. Hendrick Kip to Albert Andriessen, of a house and lot on Manhattan island, northeast of fort Amsterdam.
P. 60. Register of Provincial Secretary, Vol. III, p. 142. July 27, 1658. Deed. Hendrick Hendricksen Kip to Caspar Stymensen, of a lot south side of Brewer Street, New Amsterdam.
The New York Genealogical and Biograhpical Record, Vol. 141, No. 1, Jan. 2010. Small Burghers of New Amsterdam New Document, New Names, by Carolyn Nash. P. 25-38. In the Westchester Archives manuscript we have Hendrick Hendrickzen, Cleermaacker [tailor]. In Burghers and Freemen he is listed as Hendrick Hendricksen Kip.
De Kype, Henry ENO, JOEL N. "New York 'Knickerbocker' Families: Origin and Settlement." In The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol. 45:4 (Oct. 1914), pp. 387-391. P. 389. Dutch immigrants to New York in the seventeenth century. No ship mentioned. Also in no. 9135, Tepper, Immigrants to the Middle Colonies, pp. 1-5; and in no. 0714, Boyer, Ship Passenger Lists, New York and New Jersey, pp. 9-14.
America Heraldica. A Compilation of Coats of Arms, Crests and Mottoes of Prominent American Families Settled in This Country Before 1800. Edited by E. De V Vermont. New York. 1889. P. 16 and Plate 1.
Mathew's American Armoury and Blue Book. John Mathews. New York, NY. Crest Publishing Co. Inc. 1907. Kip Hendrick Hendricksen Kip, came to New Amsterdam from Holland prior to 1643 , Member of Governor Stuyvesant's Council. Arms - Azure, a chevron or, between two griffins sejant and confront�e in chief, and a dexter hand couped in point argent. Crest - A demi-griffin argent, holding in the paws a cross gules.
Knickerbocker's History of New York. Complete by Washington Irving. W.B Conkey Co., Publishers. Chicago. Book 1, Chapter 4. [A group of Dutch settlers were sailing down the East River in a small boat] "While the voyagers were looking around them, on what they conceived to be a serene and sunny lake, they beheld at a distance a crew of painted savagesm busily employrd in fishing, who seemed more like this genii of this romantic region -- their slender canoe lightly balanced like a feather on the undulating surface of the bay. At sight of these, the hearts of the heroes on Comminipaw were not a little troubled. But as good fortune would have it, at the bow of the commodore's boat was stationed a very valiant man named Hendrick Kip (which, being interpreted, means chicken; a name given him on token of his courage). No sooner did he behold those varlet heathens thab he trembled with excessive valor, and, although a good half mile distant, he siezed a musquetoon that lay at hand, and turning away his head, fired it most intrepidly in the face of the blessed son. The blundering weapon recoiled and gave the valiant Kip an ignominous kick that laid him prostrate with uplifted heels in the bottom of the boat. But such was the effect of this tremendous fire that the wild men of the woods, struck with consternation, siezed hastily upon their paddles, and shot away into one of the deep inlets of the Long Island shore. This signal victory gave new spirits to the hardy voyagers, and in honor of the achievement they gave the name of the valiant Kip to the surrounding bay, and it has continued to be called "Kip's Bay" from that time to the present.
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