Crest, an arm, couped above the wrist, in armour, ppr. lying fessewise, holding in the gauntlet a bunch of holly, as in the arms.
Kip of New Castle. Jacobus Kip, a native of Holland, emigrated from that country to New Amsterdam, with his parents, about 1645. He was b. A. D. 1631, and mar. (March 8, 1654,) Maria de la Montaigne. She was b. at sea, off the island of Madeira, Jan. 26, 1637. Jacobus left issue, Johannes, b. Feb. 3, 1655; Jacobus, b. Oct. 14, 1656, mar. Catharine de Hart ; Abraham, b. Dec. 21, 1658; Jesse, b. Dec. 2, 1660 ; Rachel, b. Jan. 7. 1664, mar. William Teller ; Maria, h. Dec. 2, 1666 ; Hcndncus, b. Jan. 12, 1668 ; Cath-
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arine, b. Jan. 25, 1671, mar. Hans Kiersted ; Pelrus, b. April 25, 1674 ; Benjamin,h. Aug. 6. 1678, d. A. D. 1702 ; and Samuel, h. Nov. 4. 1682. Johannes, eldest son of Jacobus, mar. Sept. 4, 1682, Catharine, da. of William Hans Kiersted, grand da. of Annetje Jans Bogardus. Their children were 1. Maria, b. Sept. 13, 1086 ; 2. Sarah, b. Nov. 19, 1688 ; 3. Hans, b. Oct.
5, 1690; 4. Johannes, b. Jan. 31, 1694; 5. Catharine, b, Oct. 16, 1698;
6. Henricus, b. Oct. 20, 1700; 7. Benjamin and Blandina, twins, b. Mar. 21, 1703. Benjamin, eldest son of Johannes, removed into Westchester County, where he purchased a farm of 400 acres. He was a justice of the peace under the Colonial Government, d. May 24, 1782, at Westchester, mar. Dorothy Davenport, she d. Sept. 3, 1807. Benjamin left issue, I. Mary, b. Sept. 18, 1734, mar.- Robert Runnells. 11. William, b. June 28, 1736, d. young. HI. Elizabeth, b. April 9, 1738, mar. John Powell. IV.