Capt. Samuel Kipp

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db...

Name: Samuel KIPP Given Name: Samuel Surname: Kipp Prefix: Capt. Sex: M Birth: 16 Dec 1753 in North Castle, Westchester Co., NY, USA Death: 23 Feb 1803 in Montreal, QC, Can Burial: 25 Feb 1803 Anglican Cemetery, Montreal, QC, Can _UID: 78E63DB2D9B64F838AAF3BF7FFED5B6DCD3D Change Date: 12 Nov 2008 at 22:31 Note:

He lived in West Chester, Province of New York. He joined the British soon after the Battle of Long Island serving under Col. Robert Rogers in the Queen's Rangers in 1776. The next Summer he joined the Corps of West Chester Loyalists under Col. DeLancey and served with then until November 1779. His Excellency Governor Tryon honored him with a Commission as Lieutenant in a Troop of Horse. In 1780 he succeeded to the Command of said Troop and had charge of same during the War. At the close of the War he emigrated to Nova Scotia in 1783 settling in Cumberland County.

Samuel left New York the 1st of June 1783, with a party of the regiment of Westchester Light Horse who were under the direction of Captain Moses Knapp. They went to the County of Cumberland. Samuel settled at Remsheg, (Wallace today), Nova Scotia.

Muster Role of Disbanded Officers, discharged and disbanded soldiers and loyalists mustered at Digby the 29th day of May 1784, Judge A.W. Savery. New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 34, p. 123.
This list indicates he left alone for exile. His first family stayed in the new Republic.

Shortly after his marriage to Mary Knapp, they migrated to Lower Canada.

Sources:

• Kipp Family Tree. The Descendants of Jacobus Kipp (1632 to 1807). Manuscript chart. Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
• History of The Kip Family In America, by Frederic E. Kip and Margarita L. Hawley, 1928. No. 408, p. 395, 400.
• Library and Archives Canada. Claims of American Loyalists, Part II. Microfilm ; B-1160, A.O. 12, vol. 23, #196-205.
• Samuel Kipp (1753-1803) et ses descendants, par Louis Richard, 1950 (private).
  • originally in French; translated by Edward and Margaret Kipp 2003
• The Civil Sword: James DeLancey's Westchester Raiders, 1776-1785, by G.R. Vincent, Victoria, BC, 1997.
• New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 34, p. 123.
• Library and Archives Canada; Ward Chipman Papers; Muster Master's Office (1777-1785); MG 23 D1, Series 1, V. 24, P. 13. C-9818.
• The Settlers of the Beekman Patent. An Historical and Genealogical Study of all the 18«sup»th«/sup» Century Settlers in the Patent, by Frank J Doherty, Pleasant Valley NY, 2003.
• Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution with An Historical Essay, by Lorenzo Sabine. Boston. 1864. p. 603
• Book of Deaths Extracted From Chappaqua, N.Y., Quaker Records. Francis F. Spies, Mount Vernon, NY, 1932. [Transcribed by Dave Swerdfeger http://dunhamwilcox.net/ny/chappaqua_deaths2.htm
• Society of Descendants of Johannes de la Montagne. World Connect/Rootsweb.
• Judge A.W. Savary, Muster role of disbanded officers, discharged and disbanded soldiers and loyalists mustered at Digby the 29th day of May 1784, New York, Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 34, page 123.