Hendrick Hendricksen Kip (cir 1600- Sept. 14, 1685) The first mention I have found of the surname Kip in the records of New Amsterdam would appear to be March 4, 1643 when Hendrick Snyder Kip said about the Director Kieft of the Colony, “We ought to send the Kievit back to Holland in the Peacock.”  [History of New Netherland or New York Under The Dutch, by E.B. O’Callaghan, Vol. I, Second edition, D. Appleton & Company, 1855. P. 272. Original reference: Alb. Rec. iii., 109.]   I still wonder why Hendrick took the surname Kip? From my reading, I know there were other people in New Amsterdam who had the name Hendrick or Hendricksen or some variation of such.   Was there some connection with a Kip family in the Netherlands?   Has anyone found earlier references to Hendrick either in printed sources or original New Amsterdam records that might help solve this problem? The printed sources I have reviewed are listed in my blog. http://americancanadianancestors.blogspot.ca/2013/02/information-on-ancestry-of-hendrick.html Edward Kipp ekipp@rogers.com www.kipp-blake-families.ca/edwardmain.htm   From the banks of the Ottawa River, river of the voyageurs!