Hendrick Hendricksen Kip

Hendrick Hendricksen Kip (1600–1685) was a Dutch colonial magistrate. He was one of the nine original popular assemblymen serving in New Amsterdam from 1647 under Pieter Stuyvesant, Governor of New Netherlands. Biography Hendrick Hendricksen Kip was born in1600 in the town of Niewenhuys in the Netherlands. He worked as a tailor in Amsterdam and married 25-year old Tryntie Lubberts, an orphan from Zwolle, in 1624. He came to America about 1637 with his wife and five children, as on the map of New Netherlands of 1639 he is recorded as owning one of the Plantations.