Hendrick Ruloffzen Kip
Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Ray Stewart Lobb ← Gladys Myrtle Kipp ← Edgar Allen Kipp ← Isaac Kipp ← Benjamin Kipp ← Isaac Kipp ← Isaac Johannes Kip ← Johannes Kip ← Jacobus Kip ← Isaac Kip ← Hendrick Kip ← Hendrick Kip
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- Aletje Henrixb. Abt. 1596 in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
In brief
Born 1576 in New Amsterdam or Holland. 1635: Came to New Amsterdam with his family, but returned to the Netherlands a few years later. He died Netherlands.
Life story
A Merchant's Brief Colony
Hendrick Ruloffzen Kip was born in 1576, son of Ruloff Kype, and worked as a prominent merchant in Amsterdam, active in the Dutch Company of Foreign Countries, which explored the Americas seeking a northwest passage to Asia — family tradition, though unproven, holds that he helped arrange Henry Hudson's famous voyage. Hendrick briefly emigrated to New Amsterdam with his family around 1635 but returned to the Netherlands within a few years.
Sources (6)
- Frederic Ellsworth Kip, History of the Kip Family in America (Boston, Massachusetts: Hudson Publishing Company, 1928), pages 14, 19.
- William Ingraham Kip, Historical Notes of the Family of Kip of Kipsburg and Kip’s Bay, New York (Albany, New York: Joel Munsell, 1871), pages 8-9.
- Margherita Arlina Hamm, Famous Families of New York Vol. I (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1902, page 218-219; digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/famousfamiliesof02hammm/page/n345/mode/2up : accessed 1 December 2023).
- Cynthia Owen Philip, Rhinecliff: A Hudson River History (Hensonville, NY: Black Dome Press Corp., 2009).
- Edwin R. Purple, Contributions to the History of the Kip Family of New York and New Jersey (New York: Self Published, 1877); digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/contributionstoh1877purp/page/n9/mode/2up : accessed 16 January 2025).
- Charles Howard Burnett, The Chipp Family in England and America (Los Angeles, CA: United Printing Company, 1933, page 153; digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/chippfamilyineng00burn/mode/2up : accessed 20 January 2025).