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IIENDRICK AND JACOB KII'PS MOUSES.
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I7(X) HK AK." These are evidently the initials of Hendrick Kip and Annatje Kip, his wife and the house was evidently built by Hendrick in this year. And this is the house between the village of Rhinebeck and the river which Benson J. Lossing says was built by William Beekman, the first settler, and of which Martha J. Lamb, the historian of New York, says " William Beekman purchased all the region of Rhine;
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beck from the Indians, and built a small stone house, which is still standing." The house at the Long Dock, now the property of Frederick G. Cotting, is near the south side of the land which fell to Jacob Kip. The stone part of this house has in the front wall a stone, very distinctly inscribed,
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This was, doubtless, Jacob Kip's house, built in this year. On the 2 1st day of April, in the year 1709, Gerrit Artsen,
Van Wagenen, of Dutchess County, husbandman, for seventy pounds, " all that certain tract, or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in Dutchess county * * to the south of the land of ye Kips, and to the north of ye land of the heirs of Jan Elting, to the east of ye of Kingston, sold to his son. Evert
Hudson river, and to the west of a small creek; it being ye lot number six, counted ye half of ye land belongeth to ye said and to hold the said parcell of land with and eveiy its appurtenances thereunto belonging, * ^' " unto the said Evert Van Wagenen, his heirs and assigns forever * * the said Evert Van Wagenen to pay yearly, and every year, the tenth part of the quit rent mentioned in ye general patent." Signed, sealed and delivered by Gerrit Artsen, on the 2 1st day of April, 1709, in presence of Conraat Elmendorp. Jacobus Elmendorp and D. Mayer, in Kingston, UlRecorded in Ulster County. ster County. This deed was for the land of which the Hutton farm is It lay " right over against the mouth of the Redout part. creek," and thus very convenient to the older Kingston settlement. On the loth day of March, 1710-1, Arie Roosa sold to Evert Roosa, for sixty pounds, lot number four the said Evert Roosa to pay one tenth part of the quit rent. Witnesses presLaurens Osterhout, Evert Van Wagenen, W. Wattingham. ent Gerrit Artsen, to have
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