Jesse Kip

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Held public office with other silversmiths in North Ward. ⁶

• Sucket fork, c 1680-1690
Yale University ¹⁹
l: 6 1/8"

• Strainer spoon, c 1700-1710
Yale University ¹⁹
l: 6 1/16"

• Made freeman of New York City NY, 30 May 1700.
¹⁵

• Sucket fork, c 1700
Museum of the City of New York ²¹
l: 5 7/16"
wt: 9 dwt
Engraved VR over S * E for Stephen and Elizabeth (Groesbeck) Van Renssalaer.

• He wrote his will on 30 Apr 1722 in Newtown NY
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 to my executors of all houses, lands and goods, which are to be divided 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."

Jesse married Mary Stevenson on 30 Sep 1695 in New Amsterdam, , NY. (Mary Stevenson was born in 1660 in New Amsterdam, , NY.)