James 'Kipton' Cronkite (born April 22, 1971) is an American socialite, entrepreneur,curator, and expert in the arts. Cronkite has projects in New York City and Miami. Cronkite has ancestral roots to early settlers of New Amsterdam (now New York City) in 1620. Herck Siboutsen was a ship carpenter and married Wyntie Teunis in 1642 New Amsterdam. Kipton Cronkite is the thirteenth generation from the immigrant Herck Siboutsen, the progenitor of the American Cronkhite family. Herck arrived in New Netherland before 1642 when he married Wyntie Teunis in the Reformed Dutch Church in Manhattan. Herck was from Langedyck, Friesland, the Netherlands. Kipton is a fifth cousin, twice removed to his cousin Walter Cronkite, the famous news reporter. They share a (many times great) grandfather, Jacob Cronkhite, who married Ann Ferguson in 1755. Jacob was of the fifth generation from Herck Siboutsen. Jacob and Ann had eight children including siblings Jacob (Walter's line) and Anna (Kipton's line). Jacob was Walter's 3rd great grandfather; Anna is Kipton's 5th great grandmother. Walter is Generation 11; Kipton is Generation 13.
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