Isaac Kipp

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Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Ray Stewart Lobb ← Gladys Myrtle Kipp ← Edgar Allen Kipp ← Isaac Kipp ← Benjamin Kipp ← Isaac Kipp

Born

November 1, 1764, in New York, USA

Died

August 6, 1846, in Burford Township, Brant County, Canada West (now Ontario, Canada)

Married

August 29, 1790, in New York, USA

Migration

1783: Isaac came to Canada with the United Empire Loyalists

Family

Father

Isaac Johannes Kipp

Mother

Catharina Tryntje Bois

Child in this line

Benjamin Kipp

Spouse

Hannah Meed

Children

Isaac Kipp
b. 1791 in New York, USA · d. 1870 1 or abt. 18713 in East Oxford Township, Oxford County, Ontario, Canda
m. Catherine French, abt. 1818, in West Oxford Township, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada
Jonathan Kipp
b. June 1792, in New York, USA · d. 1831, in East Oxford Township, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada due to Murder
m. Rhoda Chausey, abt. 1818
James Kipp
b. Abt. 1793, in New York, USA · d. March 6, 1825, in Ontario, Canada
John Kipp
b. June 5, 1795, in New York, USA · d. January 15, 1849, in East Oxford Township, Oxford County, Canada. 1, 3
m. Annis Utley in abt. 1826
David Kipp
b. November 29, 1797, in USA · d. January 20, 1876, in Burford, Brant County, Ontario, Canda
m. Lucinda Jane Miller/Millard, abt. 1825, in Oxford County, Upper Canada; Jane Wilson Williams, September 2, 1857, in Oxford County, Canada West
Elizabeth “Eliza” Kipp
b. 1800 1 or abt. 1804 · d. August 8, 1880, in Pelham Township, Welland County, Ontario, Canada
m. Henry Reece, abt. 1820
Phoebe Kipp
b. Abt. 1802 in Upper Canda · d. Before 1839
m. Robert Lucas Gillam, abt. 1822
Susannah “Susan” Kipp
b. 1805, in Burford, Brant County, Upper Canda
m. Samuel B. Lawrence, abt. 1883, in Burford, Brant County, Ontario; James Muir, abt. 1845
Richard Titus Kipp
b. April 7, 1808, in East Oxford Township, Oxford County, Upper Canada · d. October 30, 1889, in Blandford Township, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada
m. Elizabeth Losee, January 28, 1830, in Norwich, Oxford County, Ontario; Eleanor Doyle, October 25, 1843, in Blenheim Township, Oxford County, Canada West; Elizabeth Layton, May 30, 1878, in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, USA
Daniel Kipp
b. 1813, in Burford/Oxford County, Upper Canada · d. October 16, 1877, in Burford Township, Brant County, Ontario, due to two weeks of Typhoid Fever
m. Elizabeth “Eliza” Utley, June 3, 1834, in Burford, Brant County, Ontario, Canada

Siblings

Rachel Kip
b. March 1765
Petrus Kip
b. January 1773

In brief

Born November 1, 1764, in New York, USA. 1783: Isaac came to Canada with the United Empire Loyalists. He married August 29, 1790, in New York, USA and worked as oxford county militia. He died August 6, 1846, in Burford Township, Brant County, Canada West (now Ontario, Canada).

Life story

A Loyalist's New Start

Isaac Kipp was born November 1, 1764, in New York, and left the newly independent United States around 1783 with the United Empire Loyalists, unwilling to fight against Britain and Canada; he and his family eventually settled permanently in Upper Canada around 1800, likely drawn by the promise of cheap land. He took up poor bush land a few miles east of Woodstock, Ontario, chosen because its pine cover was easier to clear than hardwood, and by 1801 was farming in Blenheim Township with a yoke of oxen, two cows, and basic implements. Isaac served in the Oxford County militia, including its First Flank Company during the War of 1812.

Building a Burford Farm

Over the following three decades, Isaac steadily bought and patented land in Burford and Oxford Townships, Ontario — including two hundred acres on Dundas Street in 1810 and further parcels through the 1820s — dividing much of it among his sons David, John, James, and Richard Titus as they came of age. He voted in Oxford County's 1824 election and farmed into old age; by 1846 his modest remaining livestock included a yearling steer, two calves, a yoke of oxen, three horses, and five sheep. Isaac died in Burford Township on August 6, 1846, his personal property valued at just over 106 pounds.

At a glance

Work

Oxford County Militia

Lived

North East, Dutchess County, New York · Possibly Rensselaerville, Albany County, New York · Brant County, Ontario

Sources (8)

Dord (Chilliwack, BC) to Gladys Lobb, letter, 4 April 1975; privately held by Catherine Leineweber, Portland, Oregon, 2021.
Obituary for “Dorothy Helen Menzies,” The Chilliwack Progress (Chilliwack, BC), 11 May 1977, page 13A, col 5-6; web archives (https://www.newspapers.com/image/77101264/ : accessed 6 March 2022).
Frederic Ellsworth Kip, History of the Kip Family in America (Boston, Massachusetts: Hudson Publishing Company, 1928), pages 346-347, 354-356.
Edward B. Kipp, “Descendants of Isaac Kipp and Hannah (Meed) Kipp – Three Generations”; 2024.
Estate of Edward Burnice Kipp, “Ancestors of Edward Burnice Kipp”; 2024; pdf publication (http://www.kipp-blake-families.ca/publications/Ancestors%20of%20Edward%20Burnice%20Kipp.pdf : accessed 17 January 2025).
James Kipp, nephew of Isaac Kipp, interview by Imbert Orchard, 3 April 1963; audio recording; Imbert Orchard fonds > Oral history interviews, field sounds, and music > Fraser Valley : Chilliwack -- including Ryder Lake and Columbia Valley > James Kipp interview, British Columbia Archives and Records Service, Victoria, Canada.
“People in landscape: Go west, young man,” 1968-1972, Canadian Broadcasting Company; audio recording; Imbert Orchard fonds > CBC radio series by Orchard > People in landscape : [special programs] > People in landscape: Go west, young man, British Columbia Archives and Records Service, Victoria, Canada.
Gladys Lobb and Velma Cuthbertson, grandchildren of Isaac Kipp, interview by Shirley Cuthbertson, 12 July 1980 (also Frankie Watson, Bill Watson, Velma Cuthbertson, and Alec Kipp, descendants of Isaac Kipp, interview by Shirley Cuthbertson, August 1980) (also Bill and Frankie Watson, interview by Shirley Cuthbertson, abt. 1980) (also Frankie Watson, interview by Shirley Cuthbertson, September 1987), and notes from “Kipp Family Kit”; scanned images of transcript, privately held by Ben Weber, Woodbridge, Virginia, 2024.