Kipp, Samuel
John M. McDonald interview — 1846-10-12
Samuel Kipp (1780-1848) was a son of Samuel Kipp (1753-1803) and Freelove Totten Kipp. The elder Samuel was a Loyalist who served as an officer with DeLancey’s Refugees, and left for Canada after the end of the Revolutionary War. The younger Samuel describes his father as well as Gilbert Totten, another Loyalist officer. He notes that his uncle, Lieutenant James Kipp of DeLancey’s Refugees, drowned in Nova Scotia.
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of his men. [Here are some of Mosier's men: [?]] Richard Sacket, James [inter: Prince S.] S., David Jones, Sergeant David Slater, J. P., Godfrey Voight, Sergeant James Croft, Abel Williams, Henry Christian, Shubal Cunningham, Silvanus Ferris, two Indians, and two light complexioned colored men. [Mosier was too stubborn to go to the woods.]
October. 12th Samuel Kipp, of Courtland: "My father was born at New- [North?] Castle, I believe. He married just before the war, being then about twenty one. I was born in 1780, at New Castle. My father went first to Nova Scotia and then to Canada and died in Montreal, but I don't know the year of his decease. He never returned
to this country after the war.
Benjamin Kipp who lives near the Quaker Meeting house knows more about our family than any other person. My father was a stout, well looking, middle sized, ruddy man.
I remember Captain Gilbert Totten who was a remarkably well formed and fine looking man.
My uncle, James Kipp, was drowned in Nova Scotia.
[marg: See next page] October 10. Rebecca Odell: Emmerick's appearance inspired dread.
British cavalry encamped on Mrs. Babcock's farm, about the middle of the war, and afterwards, I think, next year Knyphausen encamped there.
Babcock was taken to Fishkill with