Dear list, Recently I was researching the family of Rip Frericx, an Amsterdam wood merchant, who married in 1616 to Tryntje Claes. They had seven daughters and one son. I found marriages in Amsterdam for four daughters, but I could not find anything about their son Claes. Looking at the marriage records of the four daughters, I noticed that all daughters were accompanied by their father, but at the marriage of one of them, Aefje Rippen, he called himself Rip Frericx van Dam. In my database I already had a Rip van Dam, who was the baptism witness in 1720 for Anna Bayard, daughter of Samuel Bayard and Margaretha van Cortlandt in the DRC in New York. This Rip van Dam, governor of New York, was, according to Pearson, the son of Claes Rips van Dam and Maria Bords. Although I can not prove it, I'm pretty sure that this Claes Rips van Dam is the 'missing' son of the above Rip Frericx and Tryntje Claes. If this family of Rip Frericx is of interest to anyone, please let me know, then I can publish what I have. And any proof for this possible connection would of course be wonderful. Regards, Cor Snabel The Netherlands