Another hot sultry day very common in July here in Canada and we spent a good three hours shredding correspondence which stretched in many cases over a sixty year period during which Edward searched for the parents of his Isaac Kipp - known by yDNA to descend from the Kip family of New Amsterdam/New York. Isaac first appears on the 1790 census living next to or with Jonathan Mead the Cooper III in Northeast Town, Dutchess County and census records here in Canada at a later date show this family to be descendant of the New York family. Their marriage date known but not found in any records thus far other than Family Bibles. The birth dates for Isaac and his wife Hannah (Mead) Kipp also in Family Bibles but not located in any records thus far. A yDNA match with the Tillsonburg Kipp family also shows a relationship and this family also from the same area in New York. A mystery not solved in his life time sadly as we spent a good amount of time in Dutchess County going through various repositories looking for that single record. An interesting one I noted way back in the early 1970s was for a Henry Kipp living close by (a Quaker) who died young but did live long enough to have been the father of this Isaac. He lived close to Jonathan Mead and one wonders if by chance Isaac worked for Jonathan and spent his youth after the death of Henry (I thought I found a will but it is so long ago) helping at the Mead home later marrying Hannah. I tend to be a bit dreamy in my thoughts on occasion but Edward required solid proof. Interesting that one of the sons of Benjamin (Isaac's second youngest son) named one of his sons Henry but not really strong enough). To Edward's knowledge Isaac did not have any siblings. Born in 1764 we are looking at the time of the American Revolution - Isaac would have been a young child born the year before the beginning of the Revolution (Henry was a Quaker) and by the end of the War Isaac would have been 19 years of age but no history of being a Quaker or being involved in the Revolution. In 1790 the Bible Records show he married Hannah Mead (she was six years younger than he was). Jonathan Mead, her father, was a Patriot. Edward did think that Isaac's father might be Isaac since they called his first son Isaac. The sons of Isaac (and the first five children were male) were Isaac, Jonathan, James, John, David, Richard Titus, Benjamin and Daniel with daughters Phoebe, Elizabeth and Susannah. All scanned by Edward those letters and he was shredding them himself the last year or so; that project on its way to completion. I have put it off these four years. Isaac and Hannah came to Upper Canada in 1800 with four of their five children (Jonathan Kipp stayed behind with his grandfather Jonathan Mead (most of his older children had gone west in the United States)) and Isaac and Hannah acquired land as settlers in the Oxford/Brant area of now southwestern Ontario. Many many Americans came north to Canada into what is now Ontario in that time frame. Some of Isaac's children moved to Michigan and others to what became Saskatchewan, and British Columbia.
A smoke day today as the forest fires still rage in the west but the temperature is going to drop and there is rain coming which will help to clear the air. As a country we really need to pull together to recharge our economy and re-create industry lost by free trade. We are moving together as a unit across the country and many of the First Nations are happy but we need to convince more of them that the very existence of Canada depends on us pulling together and creating the kind of economy that will support us into the future. Still the downsizing here and gradually I will be able to sell the house and move to something smaller but I am not in a rush. The time is coming though when it will be too much for me and I can see that. The big thing is keeping it clean and managing the yard. Keeping the lawns cut this is a large property in terms of length.
I haven't been out in the back for a bit and the dog two doors up was most excited to see someone he knew with all the change about here. There are new electrical lines going in and an upgrade to the transformers. It is going on 50 years since these lines were laid and the houses built with the block that I live in being the first and we watched all of the rest being built.
I worked on Chromosome 9 once again and still some more to do to complete the cross over points adjustment with the Living DNA results. Removed some of the smaller matches from my Paint DNA charts. They do not add to the information and make it appear cluttered. However they are saved in my "too small" file.
Today more work on the matches and soon to start. Drinking my lemon ginger tea and will do the solitaire puzzles shortly.
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