Jesse Kipp

Jesse Kip, Son of Jacobus Hendricksen Kipp and Maria de la Montagne. Husband of Maria (Stevens) Doughty.

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Jesse and Maria lived in New York city at a time of rapid growth and expansion. The Bolting Act of 1678 brought to the city enormous wealth. The Act established a monopoly for a few wealthy merchants in New York to be the sole location for grinding, processing, packing, and exporting wheat and corn from all of the colonies. Within 20 years the population and wealth of the city would triple. The Act was repealed in 1694 which opened the milling and processing of wheat and corn to other merchants outside the city. Jesse wasn’t one of the wealthy merchants who directly profited from the Bolting Act but he likely benefited from it because it established such a thriving economy in the city and when it was repealed it provided opportunity for others to establish businesses in that market. Jesse and Maria moved from New York to Newtown, Long Island, about 1710. There Jesse owned a grain mill at Fish’s Point. On Oct. 16, 1711, he purchased a fulling-mill (producing woolen cloth) , located near his grain mill.

Jesse died Apr 1722 in Newtown, Long Island, NY aged 61. Maria died a couple years later in 1724 at the age of 50.

Abstract of Jesse’s Will

In the name of God, Amen. I, Jesse Kip, of Newtown, in Queens County, being in good health. I leave to my wife Mary all my estate, real and personal, of houses, mills and goods while she remains my widow. If my wife remarries she shall give a true inventory of all houses, lands and goods, which are to be delivered as follows: To my eldest son Jacobus £10. Of the rest, one half to go to my wife and her heirs and assigns. The other half to my children Jacobus, Abraham, Jesse, Johanes, Wilhelminus, Benjamin and Elizabeth. If my wife dies my widow, then all the estate to my children. My executors have power to sell lands if necessary. I make my wife Mary and my cousin, John Stevenson, of Westchester and my nephew, Jacobus Kip, of New York, executors.

Witnesses, Andries Marschalk, Isaac Kip, Jr., Francis Cowenhoven. Proved, April 30, 1722, before Isaac Bobin, Gent., by me authorized and appointed.

1660 Dec 19; Jacob Kip, Marie de la Montagne; Jesse; Gysbert Van Imbroeck, Abraham Janszen, Petronella de La Montagne (NOTE: Perhaps a transcription error? This child's first name is really Johannes) (BUT: compare to 1655 Feb 21, where there is a Johannes Kip

References

• Early Wills of Westchester Co, NY page 74 https://ia801407.us.archive.org/21/items/earlywillsofwest00pel/earl...
• Wills, Vol 0011-0013, 1730-1740; Wills and Administrations, Vol 014, 1740-1742 https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/8800/005512801_00350?pid=5077143
• History of the Kip family in America, by Frederic Ellsworth Hathitrust , GoogleBooks