Download or read book Contributions to the History of the Kip Family of New York and New Jersey (Classic Reprint) written by Edwin R. Purple and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.