Hendrick Hendricksen Kip had an important role in the government of New Amsterdam, a 17th century Dutch settlement at the southern tip of Manhattan Island.
He was one of the nine original popular assemblymen serving in New Amsterdam from 1647 under Pieter Stuyvesant, Governor of New Netherlands. New Amsterdam (Dutch: Nieuw Amsterdam, pronounced [nimstrdm or [niums-) was a 17th-century Dutch settlement established at the southern tip of Manhattan Island that served as the seat of the colonial government in New Netherland. 
