Kipp, Samuel
John M. McDonald interview — 1846-10-12
Samuel Kipp (1780-1848) was a son of Samuel Kipp (1753-1803) and Freelove Totten Kipp. The elder Samuel was a Loyalist who served as an officer with DeLancey’s Refugees, and left for Canada after the end of the Revolutionary War. The younger Samuel describes his father as well as Gilbert Totten, another Loyalist officer. He notes that his uncle, Lieutenant James Kipp of DeLancey’s Refugees, drowned in Nova Scotia.
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- Hufeland Index Page 444 -
October 12th Samuel Kipp, of Courtland: “My father was born at New – [North?] Castle, I believe. He married just before the war, being then about twenty one. I was born in 1780, at New Castle. My father went first to Nova Scotia and then to Canada and died in Montreal, but don’t know the year of his decease. He never returned
- Hufeland Index Page 445 -
to this country after the war. Benjamin Kipp who lives near the Quaker Meetinghouse knows more about our family than any other person. My father was a stout, well looking, middle sized, ruddy man. I remember Captain Gilbert Totten who was a remarkably well formed and fine looking man. My uncle, James Kipp, was drowned in Nova Scotia.