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    Rip Van Dam (c. 1660 – 10 June 1749) was the acting governor of the Province of New York from 1731 to 1732. As one of the leaders of the republican liberal...
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  • 1546–1592), Korean general Rip Van Dam (c. 1660–1749), acting governor of the Province of New York from 1731 to 1732 Ripley Rip Weaver (1829–1900), American...
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  • Middle East expert Paul Van Dam (born 1937), Utah politician Rijk van Dam [fr; nl; pl; ro] (born 1952), Dutch politician Rip Van Dam (c.1660-1749), New York...
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    and New Jersey John Montgomerie died in July 1731, Council President Rip Van Dam was elected acting governor in New York, and Lewis Morris, President...
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    interim governor, who would serve until Cosby arrived in America, was Rip Van Dam. Thirteen months elapsed between Cosby's appointment and his arrival...
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    original patentees of the Little Nine Partners Patent: Sampson Broughton Rip Van Dam Thomas Wenham Roger Mompesson Peter Fauconier Augustine Graham Richard...
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    Catherine Van Brugh Robert Livingston (1708–1790) m. (1) 1731: Maria Thong (granddaughter of Gov. Rip Van Dam); m. (2) 1766: Gertrude (née Van Rensselaer)...
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    "Matthews Field," even before it was known as Little York. A part of the Rip Van Dam patent, it was sold to Vincent Matthews in 1721. Matthews was the first...
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    Newburgh. Vincent Mathews was likely the earliest settler who purchased the Rip Van Dam patent in 1721, built a grist mill and named his settlement "Mathewsfield...
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    and Maria Thong Livingston (1711–1765), a granddaughter of Governor Rip Van Dam. His elder brother was Peter R. Livingston. He was a nephew of Philip...
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    trying to recoup half of the salary of the previous acting governor Rip Van Dam. Unable to control the colony's supreme court, which had ruled against...
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    Sampson Shelton Broughton, Wolfgang William Romer, William Lawrence, and Rip Van Dam. In 1710, he was elected President of the Council and Acting Governor...
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    Catherine Van Brugh (b. 1689) Robert Livingston, 3rd Lord of the Manor (1708–1790) ∞ (1) Maria Thong (1711–1765) (granddaughter of Rip Van Dam); ∞ (2) Gertrude...
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  • Retrieved 16 October 2015. Lex van Dam Trading Academy Pagano, Margareta (21 November 2010). "Van Dam's trading course to counter "rip-off" tutors". The Independent...
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    America and West Indies: Volume 38, 1731. Accessed 21 May 2021 "464 Rip Van Dam to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (November 2, 1731), Calendar...
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  • a two-story wooden structure, owned by merchant and former governor Rip Van Dam, and it opened on December 11, 1732, with a performance of The Recruiting...
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    Hermance (or Hermanse, also called Nanning Visscher), Johannes Beekman, Rip Van Dam, Anne Bridges, Johannes Fisher, John Tudor, Javis Hooglandt, John Stephens...
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  • Robert Livingston (1708–1790) (category Van Brugh family)
    1731, he married Maria Thong (1711–1765), granddaughter of Governor Rip Van Dam (1660–1749). Robert Livingston expected his sons to take their place...
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  • died of an epileptic seizure. He was replaced on an acting basis by Rip Van Dam in New York and Lewis Morris in New Jersey, who served until his official...
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  • lord of Livingston Manor. His mother was a granddaughter of Governor Rip Van Dam. His father expected Peter and his brothers to take their place as his...
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    Dutch Colony In Seventeenth-Century America. (Leiden: Brill, 2005), 35. van der Sijs, Nicoline. Cookies, Coleslaw and Stoops: The Influence of Dutch...
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    figures like Robert Livingston the Elder, Philip Pieterse Schuyler, and Rip Van Dam. Walter Livingston, Harriet's father, organized the construction of Teviotdale...
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    Philip Livingston (1686–1749) (category Van Brugh family)
    granddaughter of Gov. Rip Van Dam. After her death, he married Gertrude (née Van Rensselaer) Schuyler (b. 1714), daughter of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer. Pieter...
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    Rip Van Winkle (12 February 2006 – 31 July 2020) was an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse sired by the dual Derby winner Galileo. Like his sire, Rip Van Winkle...
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    Floyd of New York, a signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, Rip Van Dam, and Matthias Nicoll. He is also the father of Ernest Howard Crosby,...
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  • and his wife Maria Thong (1711–1765), the granddaughter of Governor Rip Van Dam. John Livingston was born February 21, 1750, in New York. His father...
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    assigned to the heirs of Rip Van Dam, one of the original proprietors. Van Dam's heirs sold to Isaac Low, Jacob Walton and Anthony Van Dam, with all three receiving...
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    Pieterse Schuyler. His siblings included Judith Bayard, who married Rip Van Dam, Nicholas Bayard (1698–1765), who married Elizabeth Rynders, Gertruyd...
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    until 1936.: 46  Construction of Ruby Dam at the Rip Raps below Ruby Creek began in 1937. This dam was renamed Ross Dam after the death of James Delmage Ross...
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  • middle son Jamie. Top ranchhand Rip hires an ex-con named Jimmy, and John sends them with dynamite to stop the developer's dam project by diverting a river...
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