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
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 in Netherlands.
Family
Children
- Aletje Henrixb. Abt. 1596 in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
- Hendrick Hendricksen Kip · in this lineb. 1600 in Nieuwenhuys (probably Nyhuizum, Friesland), Netherlandsm. Tryntje “Catherine” Lubberts, April 20 or May 5, 1624, in Amsterdam, Netherlandsd. September 14, 1685, in Kippenburg, Manhattan, New York
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).