From: Herman Tripp <spring45@netins.net>

To: TRIPP-L@rootsweb.com

Subject: Trippe

Resent-Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 21:42:06 -0700 (PDT)

Resent-From: TRIPP-L@rootsweb.com

Dale, it is interesting that you would bring up the Trippe name in Maryland.

That is quite a story and I am certain that we will be able to join with

them somewhere back in England. In 1663 Henry Trippe arrived in Maryland

with sons John, William, Henry Junior and Edward, all by the name of Trippe.

They have quite a history and sometime we want to delve into it. I spent

fifteen years on this family thinking that somehow that they would connect

but never did.

The interesting thing is that John Trippe, Henry Trippe's son ended up in

North Carolina as early as 1712. What caused some early confusion was that

in North Carolina he went by the name of Trip and Tripp instead of Trippe.

He had four sons, Henry, John, William and Neville. It is intersting to

watch the court records of these four boys start out as Tripp, but over

time changed the spelling of each of their names to Trippe. This change

coincided exactly with the arrival of Robert Tripp from Rhode Island.

I guess that John Trippe wanted to be certain that everyone knew that

there was two different families. Over two or three generations that

I followed them, most of the Trippe name people moved Westward.

One of the most intersting things is that Valentine traced Tripps back to

the Tripelows who fought along side William the Counqueror at the battle of

Hastings, therefore introducing the Tripelows to England. The name changed

as you know. When Henry Trippe came to Maryland he owned a piece of land

that he called, you guessed it; "The Tripelow Forrest", proof that he had

kept up his decendancy from the original Tripelows, now Trip, Tripp, Trppe,

Tripe, etc.

I tried every way that I could with many people to tie the two families

together without success.........for now, but I have much information when

we are ready to pursue it or we find conncections back in England between

John Tripp the Founder and Henry Trippe. I am certain that everyone knows

that the first John also went by various spellings.

Herman