Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 19:42:33 +0000

From: Herman Tripp <spring45@netins.net>

To: TRIPP-L@rootsweb.com

Subject: Trippe

Resent-Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 18:50:05 -0700 (PDT)

Resent-From: TRIPP-L@rootsweb.com

Dale, it would be great if someone, sometime could connect the Trippe family

that settled in Maryland with John Tripp the Founder. I have some

information of several generations back, but it cannot be very accurate

because there is one hundred years between some generations. Here is some

interesting background about Henry Trippe that settled in Maryland in 1663.

The Trippes lived in Kent County England as far back as the Norman Conquest.

The name is found in the Dooms Day Book in the title of lands. A. D. 1234,

Nicholas Tryppe gave Lamplands, County Kent to Elham Church. The first

record we have of the family in Maryland is in 1663, when Liutenant Colonel

Henry Trippe ( born in Canterbury, England, 1632; died in Dorchester County,

Maryland, March 1698; who had fought in Flanders under the Prince of Orange,

afterwards King William III, of England ), brought with him to the Province

three of his troopers and took up land in Dorchester County; Representative

in Maryland Assembly, 1671-75, 1681-82, 1692-93; one of the Committee of

Twenty for regulating affairs in Maryland , 1690; Justice and County

Commissioner, 1669-81, 1685-94; Captain of foot, 1676; Major of Horse;

1689; his brother, Thomas Trippe, is mentioned by James, Duke of York,

afterwards King James II., in his autobiography (Naim Papers) as aiding him

to escape from St. James Palace after the beheading of Charles I. Henry

Trippe married first in 1775 Frances Brooke, widow of Michael Brooke of St.

Leonard's Creek, Calvert County, Maryland; married second Elizabeth, who

survived him.

I will get some more together later.

Herman