KIP: History of the Kip family in America 1928By Frederic E. Kip & Margarita L. Hawley This book gives an account of the Kip family in Europe and America, providing numerous illustrations, maps, charts and a vast amount of information. The De Kype family was originally settled for a long period near Alencon in Bretagne. The first of whom there is any notice in history is: I. Ruloff de Kype. In the sixteenth century, he was a warm adherent of the Guises, and took prominent part, in that section of