Clapp Family Line

Clapp Family Line

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Nana's 6x Great-Grandmother:

My 8x Great Grandmother:

Laila Laemmel-Gordon's 9x Great-Grandmother:

Abigail Clapp (1679-1753)

Abigail Bailey

Birthdate: October 1, 1679

Birthplace: Scituate, Plymouth Colony

Denomination: (probably) Puritan or Congregationalist

Date of Marriage: February 19, 1700

Place of Marriage: Scituate, Plymouth County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Death: March 2, 1753 in Hanover, Plymouth County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Burial: Hanover Center Cemetery, West Hanover, Plymouth County, Massachusetts

Parents::

Deacon Samuel Clapp

1642-1733

Hannah Gill

1645-1722

Family

Spouse:

John Bailey, III (1673 - 1752)

John Bailey

Also known as: "John Baylie"

Birthdate: November 5, 1673

Birthplace: Scituate, Plymouth Colony

Denomination: (probably) Puritan or Congregationalist

Death: June 2, 1752 in Hanover, Plymouth County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Burial: Hanover Center Cemetery, West Hanover, Plymouth County, Massachusetts

Immediate Family:

Son of John Bailey, II and Sarah Ward White

See: Bailey Family Line

Children:

1. Jane Bailey 1700-1728

Children:

1. Samuel Clapp 1667–1688

2. Joseph Clapp 1668–1747

3. Steven Clapp 1670–1756

4. Hannah Clapp 1673–1734

5. Bethia Clapp 1675–1699

6. John Clapp 1677–

7. Abigail Clapp (Bailey) 1679–1753

8. Thomas Clapp 1682–

9. Captain David Clapp 1684–1773

10. Deborah Clapp 1687–1747

11. Jane Clapp 1689–1729

About Deacon Samuel Clapp

Biography

SAMUEL CLAPP

b.c.1640

m. 13 June 1666 Hingham, HANNAH GILL (b. 10 Nov. 1645 Hingham, d. 27 Feb. 1722 Scituate)

d. 18 Mar. 1733 Scituate

Samuel lived on the family homestead in Scituate[1] and was a deputy to the Plymouth Colony court from 1680 to 1686 and in 1690-1. He was then a representative to the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, after the colonies merged, from 1692 to 1696, 1699, 1703 to 1705, 1707 to 1709 and from 1714 to 1715.[2]

In 1682 Samuel was part of a committee to settle the boundary between Scituate and Marshfield and the dividing line between the Conihasset grant and Scituate. On 27 May 1686 he was part of a committee chosen “to draw up their grievances, and impart their apprehensions to the town concerning the new laws that they read to them.” In 1687 he and John Cushing of Scituate gave a “very spirited declaration” to Gov. Andros concerning the governor granting a warrant to Humphrey Johnson to lay out lands to Johnson. Samuel also had a saw mill and grist mill where the Stockbridge Mills were located.[3]

At the Plymouth Colony Court that began 18 March 1689/0 the Court appointed Samuel Clapp of Scituate the guardian to Benjamin and Samuel Stockbridge “the two youngest children of Mr. Charles Stockbridge late of Scituate.”[4]

At the General Sessions and Inferiour Court of Common Pleas in Sept 1699 is an action of Joseph Otis against Samuel Clapp for “the recovery of possession of… sixty acres of land”. Joseph said that “Samuel Clapp under the prestense of his being the successour of Mr. Floyd late of Scituate one of the Ancient Housholder Inhabitants of said Town hath unjustly procured to be granted and layd out unto himself sixty acres of upland… and the said Samuel Clapp… doth unjustly withhold the possession thereof from the said Joseph Otis, the plf who by assignment doth rightfully succeed the said Mr. Floyd” to damage of £9. Samuel pleaded that “he withholds no land from the plf but what he the defendt hath right to hold and that the sixty acres mentioned in the writ he holds as his own”. Jury verdict for the plaintiff “possession of the land sued for, one shilling damage, and the cost of suit”, taxed at £3.4s.10d.[5]

At the court in Dec. 1700 there was a review of the action tried in Sept. 1699 where judgement was rendered for Otis, “possession of the sixty acres of land sued for, one shilling damage and the cost of suit” to Samuel’s damage of £9.19s. The jury returned a special verdict “If the Committees Power be good in Granting the sixty acres of land sued for to the now plaintiff And the now defendant not capable to sue Then we find for the now Plf. the reversing of the former Judgment of Court; two shillings Damage and the cost of suits”… Samuel Clapp v. Joseph Otis. Continued from December term on advisement. “The said Court Resolve the former question in the negative vizt: that the said Committee had not power to grant the said sixty acres of land to the now Plf so as to make him a title against the now defendt. Thereby to debar the said defendts recovering the same in a due course of law he the said defendt making it appear that he is the rightfull successour of Mr Floyd in whose right said lands were granted. And the latter question being a plea in Barr to the now defendt’s Bringing his original writ but not pleaded till after Issue joined And it not being certainly Expressed wherein he the said Defendt was capable or uncapable to sue the court are not capable to Resolve it. And therefore Grant Judgment for the defendt [Otis] that by the consideration of said Court he receive his costs of suit vizt: the sum of 43 shillings”… Reversed by verdict, that Clap recover the land and costs, taxed at £12.16s.8d. [6]

"Ye second day of May… one thousand seven hundred and twenty-two, I Samuel Clap of Scittuate… do make and ordaine this my last will and Testament…

Imprimis I Give and Bequeath to my son Joseph Clap all of housing and lands and fulling mill whereon he now dwells and which he now Improves and all yt marshland which I bought of Nicholas Wade deceased and all yt marshland which I bought of William Wills deceased and also ye one half of ye lands I bought of Benjamin Chandler deceased and also all yt my tract of land lying at a place caled Reckey Swamp in Scittuate and also all my marshland lying at susans neck Island on ye southerly side of ye sd Island and also ye one third part of my lands lying near Black Pond and also one third part of my [ ? ] lying adjoining to it, and also one quarter part of my great lot at ye [ ? ] near Hingham, and also all yt my share of [ ? ] Swamp which I hold in ye Right of sd Chandler and also ye one third part of ye rest of ye upland and meadowland which I have at Stoney brook without ye bounds of ye meadow hereafter in this my will set out to Stephen Clap at sd Stoney brook all ye abovesd pieces and parcels of lands upland swampland marsh and meadowland housing and mill lying and being in Scittuate aforesd with all ye Priviledges and appurtenances thereunto belonging I give ye same to him sd Joseph Clap… he… paying to my daughter Hannah Woodworth ye sum of sixty pounds in good and Lawfull bills of Credit… within three years after my decease… which abovesd sum… I give and bequeath unto my sd daughter Hannah woodworth…

Item I give and bequeath unto my son Stephen Clap all yt my housing and land lying at a place Caled white [ ? ] plaine whereon he sd Stephen Clap now dwels and also one piece of marsh and upland lying at Stoney Brook aforesd on ye southerly side of a small ditch cutt out and running from sd stoney brook strait up to ye upland lately belonging to Jeremiah Hatch with ye liberty of a way to cart and drive to and from ye sd marsh through my other lands which in this my will I give to my sons Joseph Clap John Clap and David Clap where it may be most convenient… also I give to my sd son Stephen Clap one piece of fresh meadow and upland lying near a place caled Wilde Catt Hill having Solomon Lincolns land on ye east of it and ye Highway and a small [ / ] Hill on ye northerly side of it and also one other piece of land lying near ye land formerly belonging to Thomas Right deceased and is bounded beginning at a marked [ ? ] tree standing in david Claps land, and from there it runeth south and by east half a pointe Easterly to a marked walnut tree and so on ye same course to Stephen Claps Swamp and so all my land there lying on ye westerly side of ye sd line, and also ye one fourth part of my Great Lott Lying at ye Valley Swamp near Hingham and also one sixteenth part of the sawmill near Thomas Briants all ye aforesd piece and parcels of lands meadows housing liberty of a way and part of ye sawmill before expressed to be given to sd Stephen Clap… he… paying unto my daughter Jane Holdbrook ye sum of sixty pounds… within three years after my decease…

Item I Give and Bequeath to my son John Clap all of my housing and lands whereon he now dwells and also all of my salt marsh land and upland lying on ye northerly side of ye first hering brook and also ye one half of ye lands I bought of Benjamin Chandler deceased and also one third part of my lands lying at [ ] and also ye one fourth part of my Great lot of land lying at ye Valley swamp… and also one third part of my salt marsh and upland at sd stoney Brook without ye Bounds of yt which is Given to sd Stephen Clap as aforesd at sd Stoney Brook and also ye one half of my tract of land lying near a place caled ye bever dam adjoining to Richard [ ? ] land he sd John to have ye Easterly half part thereof and also another parcel of land lying near Job [ ? ] land and is bounded beginning at a heap of stones ye northerly corner of my lands there and from there [ ? ] near west 32 rods to a walnut tree marked and there near south and by east with a rang of marked trees till it cometh to ye aforesd small Ridy Hill and so all my land there lying on ye easterly side of ye last abovementioned [ ? ] and also ye one third part of my [ ? ] swamp at Black Pond and also ye one sixteenth part of ye sawmill near Thomas Briants all ye abovesd pieces and parcels of lands housing and part of sd sawmill expressed to be Given to sd John Clap as aforesd Lying and being in Scittuate… he… paying to my daughter Abigail Baily ye sum of sixty Pounds…

Item I Give and Bequeath to my son david Clap all yt my housing and lands wherein I now dwell and all my upland and salt marshland at Susans neck except what I have before in this my will Given to Joseph Clap and all my meadow at longmarsh and also all my lands lying at a place caled [ ? ] Pasture and ye one half of my tract of land at Wilde Catt Hill near a place Caled ye Bever dam adjoining to Richard [ ? ] land… ye westerly half part thereof; and also yt part of my tract of land near Job Otises land which lyeth between ye lands there given to Stephen Clap and John Clap… and ye one third part of my lands at Black Pond, and ye one third part of my Seder Swampland there at sd Black Pond and also ye one third part of my marsh and upland at Stoney Brook without ye bounds of what I have before in this my will Give to sd Stephen Clap and also ye one fourth part of sd Great lott at ye Valley Swamp and ye one sixteenth part of ye aforesd sawmill by Thomas Briants all ye sd parcels and pieces of lands housing and sd part of ye sawmill lying and being in Scittuate… he… paying unto my daughter Deborah Bates ye sum of sixty Pounds… within three years after my decease…

Item I Give to my sd son david Clap all my quick stock of cattel sheep horses and swine and my carts plows chains and all my Husbandry tools and Implements and my loome and tackeling for weaving he paying out thereof all my just debts yt shall be due from and payable out of my estate.

Item I Give to my four daughters Hannah woodworth Abigail Bayley Deborah Bates and Jane Holbrook all my Beds Bedsteads beding and ye furniture belonging to them and all my linnin in ye house and all utensils of household stuff, my silver tanker, my negro woman servant Caled Pegg and all my moveable goods within doors to be equally divided betwixt them and it is my minde and will yt my sd negro Caled Pegg shall have liberty to choose her master amoungst my children such master or mistress paying ye full value of her to my sd four daughters upon an equall apprizement… also I Give to my sd four daughters ye sum of Twenty Pounds in Good bills of credit… to be paid to them within one year after my decease and to be equally divided betwixt them, which with what I have before in this my will Given to my sd daughters… And all ye Rest of my Estate both Real and Personal… I Give… to my sd four sons Joseph Clap Stephen Clap John Clap and david Clap… to be equally divided betwixt them… Lastly I hereby nominate… my sd sons… to be Joynte Executors…

Samuel Clap

In ye Presence off

John Cushing

David Jacob

John Cushing Junr

Elijah Cushing

A Codicil… I Samuel Clap of Scittuate…whatever I did in my Last will and Testament Give and Bequeath unto my son John Clap late of Scittuate aforesd now deceased sundry pieces and parcels of land with ye housing and Buildings standing upon ye same Lying and being in Scittuate aforesd, he paying to my daughter Abigail Baily ye sum of sixty pounds… my sd son John Clap being now by the providence of God taken away by Death it is necessary sum further provision should be made in yt matter and I being minded yt my grand son Thomas Clap now of Taunton… son of ye aforesd John Clap should have and Injoy what I Gave to his father John Clap… I Give and Bequeath to ye sd Thomas Clap…those pieces and parcels of lands… in Scittuate… which in my aforesd will I Gave to my sd son John Clap his father now deceased… paying unto my sd daughter Abigail Baily ye sum of Sixty Pounds… within three years after my decease… ye third day of October… one thousand seven hundred and twenty-nine…

the marke of

Samuel X Clap

John Cushing

Samuel Turner

Nathanll Hill

Benja Stockbridge"[7]

Children

children born in Scituate

• I. Samuel- b. 14 May 1667

• II. Joseph- b. 14 Dec. 1668, m. 17 Jan. 1694/5 Abigail Allen (b. 28 Feb. 1673/4 Braintree, d. 13 Oct. 1740 Scituate), d.c.1747

• III. Stephen- b. 4 Mar. 1670, m. 24 Dec. 1696 Barnstable, Temperance Gorham (b. 2 Aug. 1678 Barnstable, d. 3 Dec. 1768 Norton), d. 11 Dec. 1756 Scituate

• IV. Hannah- b. 15 Jan. 1673, bpt. 11 June 1682, m. 23 Dec. 1697 Scituate, Hezekiah Woodworth (b. 5 Feb. 1670 Scituate, d. 25 Nov. 1716 Little Compton, RI), d. 10 Dec. 1734 Little Compton, RI

• V. Bethiah- m. 11 Nov. 1696 Scituate, Thomas Oliver

• VI. John- b. 31 Sept. 1677, bpt. 6 Oct. 1678, m. 16 Dec. 1702 Hingham, Hannah Gill (b. 23 Oct. 1681 Hingham, d. after Apr. 1739), d. before 1722

• VII. Abigil- b. Oct. 1679, m. 19 Feb. 1700 Scituate, John Bailey (b. 5 Nov. 1673 Scituate, d. June 1752 Hanover), d. 2 Mar. 1753 Hanover

• VIII. Thomas- bpt. 11 June 1682

• IX. David- b. Nov. 1684, m. Deborah Otis (b. 24 Apr. 1694 Marshfield)

• X. Deborah- b. Feb. 1686/7, m. 10 Sept. 1713 Scituate, Joseph Bates (b. 6 May 1687 Hingham, 7 Apr. 1750 Hingham)

• XI. Jane- b. Nov. 1689, m. 15 Dec. 1708 Scituate, Samuel Holbrook (b. 9 Feb. 1683 Scituate)

Samuel was the son of Thomas & Abigail (Holbrook) Clapp

He married Hannah Gill on 13 Jun 1666 at Scituate, Plymouth, MA Bay

Their children were Joseph, Stephen, John, Abigail, David, Deborah & Jane

Sources

↑ Samuel Deane, | History of Scituate, Massachusetts, from Its First Settlement to 1831, Loring, Boston, 1831

↑ Ebenezer Clapp, | The Clapp Memorial; record of the Clapp family in America, containing sketches of the original six emigrants, and a genealogy of their descendants bearing the name, with a supplement, Boston, Clapp & Son, 1876

↑ Ebenezer Clapp, | The Clapp Memorial; record of the Clapp family in America, containing sketches of the original six emigrants, and a genealogy of their descendants bearing the name, with a supplement, Boston, Clapp & Son, 1876

↑ Plymouth Court Records- Vol. I, pp. 13-4

↑ Plymouth Court Records- Vol. I, p. 37

↑ Plymouth Court Records- Vol. I, pp. 48-50

↑ Plymouth County Registry of Probate- Docket No. 4220

Hingham, Scituate, Hanover, Marshfield and Compton V.R.

<http://trees.wmgs.org/getperson.php?personID=I990&tree=Schirado />

http://www.mocavo.com/family-tree/Barbara-J-Baker/Genealogy-of-Barbara-J-Baker/Samuel-Clapp-3

Thomas Cleary, firsthand knowledge. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Thomas and others.

Notes

From Samuel descended the distinguished family of the name in this vicinity. He succeeded to his father's residence. He married Hannah, the daughter of Thomas Gill of Hingham 1666. His children were Samuel born 1667, Joseph 1668, Stephen 1670, Hannah 1673, Bethia 1675, John 1677, Abigail 1679, David 1684, Deborah 1686, Jane 1689.

Samuel resided at the family homestead. He was a Representative to the General Court of Massachusetts 1692-96, 99, 1703-05, 07-09, and 14-15, after the Massachusetts and Plymouth Colonies were united. Previous to this he had been a Deputy to the Government of the Plymouth Colony 1680-86, and 90-91. He was one of the committee chosen May 27, 1686, by the town 'to draw up their grievances, and impart their apprehensions to the town' concerning the new laws that day read to them. In 1682, he was one of the commissioners to settle the boundary between Scituate and Marshfield; also to divide the line between Conihasset grant and Scituate. In many other ways he served the Town and State with great zeal and fidelity, and died at an age somewhat advanced. He and John Cushing, of Scituate, addressed a 'very spriited declaration' to Gev. Andros, in 1687, upon the account of his granting a warrant to Humphrey Johnson to lay out lands for Johnson's use. He had a grist and saw-mill where the Stockbridge Mills have since stood.

MA Town & Vital Records

References:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Clapp-364

https://www.geni.com/people/Samuel-Clapp/6000000002006205322

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LRLL-MV2

https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr05/rr05_106.html#P990

http://www.reedfamilyhistory.info/getperson.php?personID=I4621&tree=Reed

https://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/just-one-tree-in-the-forest/I4014.php

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Nana's 8x Great-Grandfather:

My 10x Great Grandfather:

Laila Laemmel-Gordon's 11x Great-Grandfather:

Jane Martin

1611-1656

Jane Clapp

Birthdate: bet. 1611-1617

Birthplace: Dorchester, Dorset, England

Denomination: (probably) Anglican / Puritan

Date of Marriage: 1638

Place of Marriage: Dorset, England

Death: January 1655 in Scituate, Plymouth Colony

Immediate Family:

Daughter of Richard Martyn (1563 - 1633) and Frances Upham (1583 - 1642)

Children:

1. Thomas Clapp 1639–1691

2. Increase Clapp 1640–1716

3. Deacon Samuel Clapp 1642–1733

4. Eleazer Clapp 1646–1676

5. Elizabeth Clapp 1648–1698

6. Prudence Clapp 1649–1684

Family 2

Spouse:

Abigail Wright

Also Known As: "Abigail Sharpe", "Abigail Clapp", "Abigail (Wright) Sharpe Clapp"

Birthdate: 1622

Birthplace: perhaps Stepney Parish, London, Middlesex , England

Married: ca. 1657, widow Abigail (Wright) Sharpe, possibly at Dedham.

Death: May 18, 1712 in Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts

Burial: Milton, Norfolk County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Immediate Family:

Daughter of Capt. Richard Wright and Margaret Adams

Children:

1. John Clapp

2. Abigail Clapp (Tilden)

About Thomas Clapp, Sr.

Thomas Clapp migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1620-1640).

Disputed Parents

Thomas Clapp represented by this profile was son of Nicholas Clapp.

From page 88-91 of Joseph Neal Ancestry published 1945 by Walter Goodwin Davis:

“The will of Nicholas Clapp of Venotry in the County of Devon was made on his death-bed March 12, 1681, and proved on March 29, 1681. He gave to the poor people of the parish of Sidbury 10s. and to the poor of Venotry 3s. 4d. To Jane Clapp, Thomas Clapp, Barbara Clapp, Radagond Clapp, John and Ambrose Clapp, his children, fourscore pounds each from the profits of his lands and tenements in Venotry, to be paid at the rate of nineteen pounds a year. If any child died before time of payment, his share to be equally divided amongst the others. He made arrangements for prepayment if any of the four youngest children "shall be willing to putt themselves to any arte or trade. To Elizabeth, his wife, a feather-bed performed (i.e. furnished), six pewter dishes, potts and a middle pan of brass, a chest, two coffers and the use of other household stuff for her life. To son Thomas, his third best pot of brass. To each of his daughters Jane, Barbara and Redagon, a brazen pan. To his son Nicholas Clapp, a pewter dish. Residue to Richard Clapp, his eldest son and heir, to whom he gave his lands and tenements in Venotry. Executor: son Richard Clapp. Overseers: his sons-in-law Francis Pile and Hercules Searles, to each of whom 21s. Witnesses : Nie Putt, Wm Winter, Christopher Whitmore.”

“Children…. Thomas3 Clapp … born in SIdbury, co. Devon about 1609… In 1630.. went to New England..died in Scituate Apr 20, 1684”

The earliest comprehensive account of this Clap family was Ebenezer Clapp's The Clapp Memorial. Record of the Clapp Family in America ... (Boston, MA: 1876), pp. 91-94. Brief mention was made in 1889 in NEHGR 15:255 (1861) and NEHGR 43:429 (1889). Mary Lovering Holman prepared The Scott Genealogy . . . (Boston 1919) p 22, 229 and Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his wife Frances Helen Miller (n.p. 1948) 1:280. In 1959 Edith Bartlett Surnner produced Edith Bartlett Sumner, Descendants of Thomas Farr of Harpswell, Maine, and Ninety Allied Families (Los Angeles 1959) 61-641. In 1945 Walter Goodwin Davis published an account in The Ancestry of Joseph Neal, 1769-c.1835 (Portland, Maine, 1945) 87-93. In 1992 a brief mention was made of Thomas Clapp by Gale Ion Harris in “Captain Richard Wright of the Twelve-Mile Island and the Burnhams of Podunk” in The American Genealogist 67:38. In 2001 Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn Jr. and Melinde Lutz Sanborn produced account in The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635 (Boston, MA: NEHGS 2001) 2:76-81. According to Robert Charles Anderson all of these accounts were superseded by the study of the Clapp family by Dean Crawford Smith and Melinde Lutz Sanborn in The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908, Part IV: The Ancestry of Linda Anna Powers, 1839-1879 (Boston, MA: NEHGS 2000) 114-195. Anderson should know as he is editor and peer reviews the NEHGS publications and Melinde Lutz Sanborn was co-author of the Great Migration series. This is the most comprehensive study of the Clapp family ever published and includes extensive records from England. What does this study conclude? Thomas Clapp was son of Nicholas Clapp. Per PGM policy unless other more recent peer reviewed sources are presented we go by Anderson’s judgement. No other sources exist. Therefore the father of this profile should be changed to Nicholas Clapp.[1][2][3]

Robert Charles Anderson and Melinde Lutz Sanborn in The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635 (Boston, MA: NEHGS 2001) 2:76-81 link write:

"A second group of Clap siblings... came to New England: NICHOLAS CLAP {1637, Dorchester}, THOMAS CLAP {1638, Weymouth}; John Clap, who was in New England by the 1640s; Prudence Clap, wife of our Edward; Barbara Clap, wife of JOSEPH WELD {1635, Roxbury}; and Radigon Clap, who rnarried John Capen, son of BERNARD CAPEN {1633, Dorchester} Joseph Neal Anc 88-89; Scott Gen 227-30; Stevens-Miller Anc 1:278). Another sister, Jane Clap, was almost certainly wife of JOHN ALDERMAN {1634, Dorchester} {GM 2: 1:20-23}."

Note these were all the children of Nicholas Clapp per Melinde Lutz Sanborn in Kempton Ancestry: Nicholas Clapp named his children in his will: James, Thomas, Barbara, Radegon, John and Ambrose [Inquisition indented taken 2nd May 9 Charles [I][1633] of Nicholas Clapp died 12th March 7 Charles [1631/2] also Richard and Nicholas son and next heir were "24 years or more" on 2 May 1633. i.e 1609 or later. Thomas Clapp in Plymouth Colony Deed 4:176 deposed aged 69 in 1678 i.e. born 1608. Thomas died 20 Apr 1684. Thomas m/1 Jane ___ b say 1617 d bef Jan 1556 m/2 Abigail (Wright) Sharp b abt 1623 d btw 28 Nov 1702 (will) and 13 Feb 1707/8 (proved). Jane was mother to his six children. John Clapp in 1655 named in his will his brother Thomas Clapp and his children Elizabeth, Prudence, Samuel and "the rest of his children." [Suffolk Probate 1:111]. Thomas rec'd legacy from his father Nicholas 1631 and sailed 1637,Hingham lists 13 Mar 1638; Sidbury, Devon, England 5 Jun 1644; Transcription of Will and Inventory p 134-137

From Kempton Ancestry page 132 published in 2000 written by the co-author of The Great Migration and peer reviewed at NEHGS by Anderson:

"THOMAS1 CLAPP (Nicholas(A) Richard(B)), presumably born in Sidbury, Devonshire, England, about 1608; died in Scituate, Mass., 20 April 1684; married first say 1637 JANE __, born say 1617, died before January of 1656[/7?] when her husband is known to have remarried, kinswoman of Joan (Upham) Martin of Rehoboth; married second after January of 1655 and before 15 January 1656[17?]76 ABIGAIL (WRIGHT) SHARP, born in England about 1623 died between 28 November 1702 when she wrote her will and 13 February 1707[/8?] when her will was proved,79 daughter of RICHARD and MARGARET (__) WRIGHT.

Citations: Plymouth Colony Deed 4:176; Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Joseph Neal, 91; Suffolk Probate 3:67,; Suffolk File #5400; Plymouth Probate #10242; Suffolk Probate 4:228; Scituate YR 2:397.

JOHN1 Clapp (Nicholas(A) Richard(B)), born say 1616; died in Dorchester, Mass., between 11 July 1655 when he wrote his will [Suffolk Probate 1:111] This very interesting will made when he suffered from "sicknes & great weakenes of body," named his wife, "my dear and loving brother Ambrose Clap [clearly still in England from the context of the will]", "my dear brother Richard Clap in England"; "my loving brother-in-law Edward Clap", "my loving cousins Richard and Elizabeth Clap children of my brother Richard Clap"; "my loving cousin Deborah Clap, daughter of ye said brother"; "my loving cousins Nathaniel, Ebenezer, Sarah and Hannah, brother Nicholas' children"; "my loving cousins Elizabeth, Prudence, and Samuel Clap children of my brother Thomas Clap"; "ye rest of his [Thomas'] children"; "my cousin John Capen"; "my dear and loving cousins Roger Claps children"; "my brother Nicholas, my brother Edward and my cousin Roger Clap."

Biography

Thomas Clapp was born at Dorchester, England in 1597 [sic see disputed parents section above Robert Charles Anderson and Melinde Lutz Sanborn in The Great Migration Begins and Kempton Ancestry state he was son of Nicholas Clapp in the latest research published by NEHGS][4] son of Richard, and came to New England with his brothers. He was at first at Dorchester c1630-33, then Weymouth, and in 1640 settled at Scituate where his farm was on the northwest of the Stockbridge Mill Pond. [5] [6] [7] [8]

In the will of John Clapp of Dorchester, 11: 5: 1655 [July 11, 1655] bequests were left to (among others):

brother Ambros Clapp

brother-in-law Edward Clapp

brother Richard Clapp, still in England, cousins Elizabeth, Richard and Deborah, his children

my brother Nicholas' children, being cousins Nathaniel, Ebenezer, Sarah and Hannah

cousins Elizabeth, Prudence and Samuel Clapp, children of my brother Thomas Clapp 8s each, a 5s to Thomas' remaining children

cousin Roger Clapp

cousin John Capen[9]

Timeline

1634: His name appears on the Town Records at Dorchester. [7]

1638: December 25: Thomas is listed among the men that formed the Dorchester Young Men's Religious Society. [10]

1639: March 13: He was made a Freeman of Massachusetts Bay Colony. [11][5][7]

1638/9: January 13: Thomas Clapp, recorded as Freeman and member of the Hingham church. [12]

1639: June 4: Thomas Clapp, planter of Hingham, sued William Sprague of Hingham over a cow. [13]

1645: Timothy Hatherly sold 24 acres to Thomas Clapp of Scituate. [14]

1649: He served as representative of the General Court. [5] [7]

1647: He was a deacon in the first church in Scituate. [6] [5] [7]

1667: Overseer to the Poor. [7]

Marriages

He married first, by 1639, Jane __ (?Martin) at Scituate or Weymouth, Massachusetts. [15] In the will of Joanna Martin, widow of Robert Martin, dated April 6, 1668, she made a bequest to 'my cousin Clapp his children which he had borne by my kinswoman Jane Clapp ( being six of them) ...' [16] [17]

He married about 1657, widow Abigail (Wright) Sharpe, possibly at Dedham. [18] [19]

Thomas died on April 20, 1684 at Scituate.[4] [7]

After his death, widow Abigail married thirdly, William Holbrooke. [15] [18]

The estate inventory of the estate of Mrs. Alice Holbrook, late of Marshfield, deceased was taken on Oct. 31, 1707. [18] In it she names:

daughter Abigail Vorce (sic)

granddaughter Elizabeth Tilden

grandsons Nathaniel and John Tilden

granddaughter Elizabeth Crafts

grandson William Sharp

daughter Abigail Tilden

granddaughter Martha Buckmaster [18]

Children by 1st wife Jane

Thomas Clapp born in Weymouth March 15, 1639 (vol. 5: p. 28)[20]; died about 1691, will proved on Jan. 29, 1691; married Mary Fisher November 10, 1662; removed to Dedham (now Walpole). [6] [7]

Increase probably born in May, 1640; baptized at Dorchester that month; married widow Elizabeth (Bursley) Goodspeed at Barnstable in October, 1675. [7]

Eleazer born at Scituate; [6] removed to Barnstable: killed March 15, 1676 in a battle with the Narragansetts. Likely unmarried. [7]

Samuel Clapp born ___ at Scituate; married Hannah Gill of Hingham May 14, 1666.[6] [21]

Elizabeth born ___at Scituate; died in 1698; married Deacon Thomas King Jr. on April 20, 1669. [6] [7] [21]

Prudence born ___; was unmarried at the time her father made his will in 1684. [6] [7]

Children by Abigail Wright

John born October 18, 1658 at Scituate; died in 1671.[4] [21][6] [7]

Abigail Clapp born January 29, 1659/60 [21] [4] [7] ; married Stephen Tilden. [6]

Source notes

New England Marriages

CLAPP, Thomas (?1609-1684) & 1/wf [?Jane MARTIN] (2/wf ____); by 1639; Weymouth/Scituate (p. 318)

SHARP, Robert (? 1617-1656) & Abigail WRIGHT (?1622 - ) m/2 Thomas CLAP 1656?; m/3 William HOLBROOK aft 1679, 1684+; b 1643; Roxbury. (p. 663)

CLAP, Thomas ( -1684) & Abigail (WRIGHT) [SHARPE] w Robert, m/3 William HOLBROOK, 1684+; after Jan 1655, 1656?; Deham, Weymouth, Scituate.(p. 154)[15]

Scituate Births

Clap, John s. Thomas Oct. 18, 1658. [Clappe CR 2]. (p. 73)

Clap, Abigail, d. Thomas, Jan. 29, 1659. [Abigail Clappe CR 2] (p. 71)

Scituate Marriages

Clapp, Samuel and Hannah Gill, June 14, 1666. (p. 65)

Clapp, Elizabeth and Thomas Ring April 20, 1669. (p. 73) [21]

Sources

↑ TAG: Vol. 67: p. 38 (1992): in identifying the husbands of Abigail Wright, indicates husband Thomas Clap was born c1609 at Sidbury, Devon, England, son of Nicholas Clapp, but doesn't provide a source for the information.

↑ NEHGR: Vol. 43: p. 429 (1889): lists Letters of Admon. Estate of Richard Clapp late of Clotworthhill, Devon, June 23, 1613, to son Thomas Clapp and daughter Thomasine Clapp but does not further identify which Clapp line is being referred to.

↑ His brother Nicholas, identified as 4th son of Richard NEHGR: Vol. 15: p. 255 (1861) His sister Prudence, identified as daughter of Nicholas Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F p. 79

↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Vol. 99: pp. 240-2: Vital Records from The NEHGS Register. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.)

↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Whittemore, Henry. The Signers of the Mayflower Compact and Their Descendants, Mayflower Publishing Company, New York , 1899

↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 Emery, Samuel Hopkins. History of Taunton, Massachusetts: From Its Settlement to the Present Time, D. Mason & Company, Syracuse, New York, 1893, p. 199

↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 7.11 7.12 7.13 Clapp, Ebenezer, compiler. Record of the Clapp Family in America, Containing Sketches of the Original Six Emigrants, David Clapp & Sons, Publ., Boston, Massachusetts, 1876

↑ Volume 14: p. 5: Great Migration Newsletter, V.1-20. (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.)

↑ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 5, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 1851 p. 443

↑ The New England Genealogical and Historical Register, Volume 60, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 1906 p. 37-8

↑ Massachusetts: Miscellaneous Censuses Substitutes, 1630–1788, 1840, 1890, p. 1739 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013. From records supplied by Ancestry.com)

↑ Volume 7: p. 20: Great Migration Newsletter, V.1-20.(Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.)

↑ Anderson, Robert C. William Sprague in: The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995).. p. 1738

↑ Anderson, Robert C. Timothy Hatherly in: The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995). p. 878

↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. Vol. 1, page 318: {Rice-Cottrell 31; Stevens-Miller 278; Blake-Glidden 67; Davis: Anc. of Joseph Neal 90, 100; Warner-Harrington 116.

↑ Anderson, Robert C. John Upham in: Great Migration 1634-1635, T-Y. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011, p. 155

↑ Anderson, Robert C. Robert Martin in: Great Migration 1634-1635, M-P. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume V, M-P, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2007., p. 60

↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 Anderson, Robert C. Robert Sharp in: Great Migration 1634-1635, Volume VI: R-S, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, p. 255-9 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VI, R-S, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.

↑ Harris, Gale Ion. Captain Richard Wright of Twelve Mile Island and the Burnhams of Podunk in: The American Genealogist, Vol. 67, New Haven, Connecticut, 1992, p. 38 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .)

↑ Great Migration Newsletter, V.1-20.(Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.)

↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 Vital Records of Scituate Massachusetts to the Year 1850, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 1909

See also:

Pane-Joyce Genealogy "http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr02/rr02_414.html#P918"

https://archive.org/stream/kinggenealogyits00king/kinggenealogyits00king_djvu.txt

MA Town & Vital Records

Directory of the anc. heads of New England fams. Comp. By Frank R. Holmes. NewYork, 1923. (274p.):48 Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript". 1906-1941.( The greatest single source of material for gen. Data for the N.E. area and for the period 1600-1800. Completely indexed in the Index.): 10 Jul 1916, 5593; 13 Nov 1916, 5593; 11 Jul 1917, 6429; 30 Dec 1918, 6770; 5 May 1919, 7512; 17 Nov 1920, 8454; 5 Apr 1926, 4040; 14 Apr 1926, 4092; 18 May 1927, 4577; 27 Mar 1929, 8371; 6 May 1932, 3332; 14 Jul 1932, 3737; 18 Jul 1932, 4093; 15 Jun 1933, 6602; 13 Feb 1935, 9769; 20 Feb 1935, 9769;

Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Deaths [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.

Jackson, Ron V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp.. Massachusetts Census, 1790-1890. Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes.

Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.

References:

https://www.geni.com/people/Deacon-Thomas-Clapp/6000000001791619550

https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L6KH-MQ5/thomas-clapp-sr.-1608-1684

https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr02/rr02_442.html

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Clapp-29

http://miller-aanderson.blogspot.com/2011/07/thomas-clapp-1597-1684.html

*Note on Birthdate:

Apparently the Thomas Clapp born in 1597 had a different father:

https://www.geni.com/people/Thomas-Clapp/6000000115073982064

Elder William Clapp, of Salcombe Regis:

https://www.geni.com/people/Elder-William-Clapp-of-Salcombe-Regis/6000000001791619599

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Nana's 9x Great-Grandfather:

My 11x Great Grandfather:

Laila Laemmel-Gordon's 12x Great-Grandfather:

Nicholas Richard Clapp (1575 - 1631)

Nicholas Clapp

Birthdate: bet. 1568-1575

Birthplace: Sidbury, Devonshire, England

Denomination: (probably) Anglican

Death: bef. March 14, 1631 in Venn Ottery, Devonshire, England

Burial: March 14, 1631 at Venn Ottery, Devonshire, England

Parents:

Richard Clapp, of Sidbury

1528-1609

Christian [unknown]

1540-1609

Family

Spouse:

Parents:

William Clapp, of Sidbury

1500-1555

Alice Stevens

1502-1555

Family

Spouse:

Children:

1. Child Clap 1552–1552

2. Child Clapp 1554–1554

3. Peter Clapp 1558–1622

4. Robert Clapp 1559–1629

5. Richard Clapp 1560–

6. William Clapp 1561–1640

7. Mary Clap 1563–1613

8. Richard Clap 1565–1631

9. Nicholas Richard Clapp 1575–1631

10. Prudence Clap 1570–

11. Eyde Clap 1572–1613

12. Chris Clapp 1574–1609

13. John Clapp –1636

About Richard Clapp, of Sidbury

Summary

Name: Richard Clapp

Birth: Unknown say 1528 in probably Sidbury, Devon, England

Death: After 1589 when Richard was last listed as the sole Sidbury Clapp in the subsidy rolls and before 25 JUL 1609 when his widow wrote her will.

Father: William Clapp b: ABT 1500 in Sidbury, Devon, England d bef 29 May 1555 [will]

Mother: Alice in of Sidbury, Devon, England

Marriage Christian (____)

Once posited to have another first unknown wife but current research finds no evidence for this.

Parents

Richard Clapp was the only son of William and Alice (_____) Clapp. William Clapp was born in about 1500 in Sidbury, Devonshire, England. He married Alice (___) about 1526 in Sidbury. He wrote his will on 29 May 1555 as Yeoman of Harpford. His will was proved on 26 Jul 1555. He lists only one son Richard and five daughter: Florence Ybdon (and children of William Ybdon), Jyllyan Badstone, Alice Ynglande, Beaton and Johane the last two unmarried so possibly the youngest. And "Allse [Alice] my Wyffe."Wittness John Fulbrouke & T. Badstone. William's son Richard was progenitor of the New England family. Richard was married with two children at the time the will was written. See Richard's profile.[1][2][3] In the Great Migration Robert Charles Anderson says that Kempton Ancestry supersedes all other sources on the Clapp family. According the Kempton Ancestry William is the first generation we can identity as a progenitor of the New England family.

Biography

Richard Clapp was a "billman." He appears in the 1569 Devonshire Muster Rolls for Sidbury. He appear in the 1571, 1576, 1581 and 1589 Sidbury subsidy rolls. His residence was near the Ottery Hill on the border with Ottery St Mary [deposition of his son Nicholas saying his father described the border stones remarking the grazing bounds of sheep there].

The birth of Richard is unrecorded we only know that he was the sole son named in his father's will. Based on the contents of his father's will it is posited he was born about 1528 because in the will Richard was already married with two children. He died after 1589 [when Richard was last listed as the sole Clapp in the Sidbury subsidy rolls] and before 25 JUL 1609 [when his widow Christian wrote her will].

Richard had seven known children. He left a widow Christian who is currently thought to be the mother of all of his children. Richard's wife Christian (__ ), died in Sidbury, Devonshire, between 25 July 1608 [writing of her will] and 12 August 1608 [will proved]. Walter Goodin Davis in 1945 postulated that Richard had an unknown first wife before Christian. This is based on the fact that Christian only named one son, Nicholas, in her will. However, in more recent research published in 2000 by NEHGS in Kempton Ancestry the authors assert that this is not sufficient evidence to believe Richard had a first wife. The authors point out that It was not uncommon for a widow during this period in England who had meager resources to only name one son even if she had several sons. As evidenced by her inventory she had little more than her wearing apparel. Their son Peter's will names his brother Nicholas and Robert and Peter's marriage record named his father as Richard Clapp of Sidbury. Furthermore his other brother Richard Clapp was appointed executor of Peter's will. Taken together we can see there were clearly more sons than named in the Richard widow's will. Richard and Christian's grandson John left a will leaving bequests to "my dear and loving cousins Roger Claps children" and appointed "my cousin Roger Clap" as one of the overseers indicating that their father William was also a son of Richard and Christian Clapp. In total these data indicate that Richard had five sons and two daughters (see list of children below). Both his sons William and Nicholas had children that came to New England.

Children

RICHARD, living 1602; married in Sidmouth, Devonshire, 2 October 1592 MARGERY GOOD, living 1602.

ROBERT, probably the man buried in Venn Ottery, Devonshire, 10 September 1624, perhaps incapable since his brother Peter bequeathed him 1 Os per year to be paid quarterly for life,27 certainly unmarried.

WILLIAM,buried in Salcombe Regis, Devonshire, 1 March 1640/1; married in Sidmouth, Devonshire, 11 November 1593 JOHAN CHANNON, buried in Salcombe Regis 5 August 1629, daughter of Robert and Johan(___) Channon.

4. PETER, died by 16 January 1622(/3] when his will was proved; married in Sidmouth, Devonshire, 3 July 1595 TAMSYNE STOCKER, living 1623 when she was her husband's executrix. His marriage record records his father as "Richard Clapp of Sydbury." He named his brothers Nicholas and Robert in his will.

DAUGHTER, living 1608; married __ 32 WINDSOM

NICHOLASA CLAPP, yeoman, born in Sidbury, Devonshire, about 1568; died in Venn Ottery, Devonshire, 12 March 1631/235 and buried there 14 March 1631/2; married say 1605 ELIZABETH(____) PILE, born say 1580, buried in Venn Ottery 14 March 1631/2, the same day as her late husband. Elizabeth (or an unseen, earlier wife), was married to __ Pile, and had children, Francis Pile and Elizabeth Pile. Daughter Elizabeth Pile married at Talaton, Devonshire, 15 September 1623 Hercules Searle. Son Francis Pile married Elizabeth __ , and had at least six children, also at Talaton. Hercules Searle and Francis Pile were called "sons-in-law" in Nicholas Clapp's will.

EYDE, living 1608 and 1615 if she is the woman who married ROGER CRUTCHETT, buried Coylton, Devonshire 29 January 1650/1. Roger Crutchett married perhaps second at Coylton between 21 November 1614 and 13 February 1614/15 Ellen Oxen, with whom he had son Richard, baptized there 8 October 1615. Roger Crutchett married perhaps third at Coylton 15 June 1618 Marie Baseley, widow, who was buried there 16 February 1635/6. Roger Crutchett married perhaps fourth at Colyton 7 September 1636 Joane Road, who probably survived him.

Will of Widow Christian Clapp

To the poor of Sidbury 5s. To my godchildren 4d. each. To my goddaughter dwelling at Broadclist22 one petticoat. To Mary Clapp my gowne. To Elizabeth Clapp, my son Nicholas his wife, my cloake. To Prudence Clapp, Ann Crutchell and Ann Windsam all linen apparell. To Prudence Clapp my cobord at Pynhill,23 etc. 121 To said Ann Windsam £10 to be paid at the end of a year after my death, to be employed to the best use for her benefit and if she happen to die before the age of 20, said £ 10 to remain to Prudence Clapp. To Eyde Crutchett my daughter £10. To Richard Clapp my son Nicholas his son one chest. To Ellen Lee my kyrtle. Residue to Nicholas my son, executor. Witnesses: Thos. Ebson,24 James Taylor Proved 12 August 1608

The inventory of widow Christian Clapp of Sidbury was presented 9 August 1608 and totalled a modest £ 15 1 Os, which was insufficient to pay the legacies outlined in her will

Sources

Smith, Dean Crawford, and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2000), Part IV: The Ancestry of Linda Anna Powers, 1839-1879 p 114-182, link to Open Library @ p 171-172 includes the will of William Clapp Yeoman of Sidbury now of Harpford, Devon, England. Will dated 29 May 1555 proved, 26 Jul 1555 lists only one son Richard and five daughter: Florence Ybdon (and children of William Ybdon), Jyllyan Badstone, Alice Ynglande, Beaton and Johane the last two unmarried so possibly the youngest. And "Allse [Alice] my Wyffe."Wittness John Fulbrouke & T. Badstone. William son Richard was progenitor of the New England family. See Richard's profile.

Spear, Burton W. Search for the passengers of the Mary & John, 1630. (Toledo, Ohio: B.W. Spear, c1985-), Vol. 4 link

Roberts, Gary Boyd. Ancestors of American Presidents. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009). , James A. Garfield, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush and Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Roosevelt link

Note these older Genealogies also treat this family but have errors corrected in Kempton Anc and should be used with caution

Note these older Genealogies also treat this family but have errors corrected in Kempton Anc and should be used with caution:

Mary Lovering Holman, The Scott Genealogy . . . (Boston 1919) 224-30 link

Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Joseph Neal, 1769-c.1835 (Portland, Maine, 1945) 87-93 link

Mary Lovering Holman (and Winifred Lovering Holman), Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his wife Frances Helen Miller, 2 volumes (n.p. 1948, 1951) 1:276 link

Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines (n.p., 1943) 1:155-75 link

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Clapp-3

http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:William_Clapp_%286%29

http://www.chambersheritage.com/pafg536.htm#17163

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tatro/gp170.htm#head0

http://fabpedigree.com/s060/f398796.htm

Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: Feb 28 2018, 3:47:36 UTC

References:

https://www.geni.com/people/Richard-Clapp-of-Sidbury/6000000003615483239

https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr01/rr01_148.html#P15078

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Clapp-4

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/94RT-7TM

http://nagelhistory.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I5728&tree=tree1

https://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?lang=en&pz=timothy+michael&nz=dowling&p=richard&n=clapp

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Richard_Clapp_%282%29

https://fabpedigree.com/s060/f398796.htm

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Clapp History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

Clapp is a name of Anglo-Saxon origin and came from Osgoode Clapa (d. 1054), a nobleman of Danish origin, who served King Harthacanute (1018-1042) and Edward the Confessor. Another possible origin of the surname Clapp may be that it derived from the Old English word clop which meant "lump," or "hill." As such, it may have been a nickname for someone who was large or ungainly.

Early Origins of the Clapp Family

The surname Clapp was first found in Surrey. The place name Clapham or "Clappa's farm"dates back to Anglo-Saxon times. Osgoode Clapa (d. 1054) held land in the Kingdom of East Anglia. He was listed as a witness to charters from 1026, and is mentioned the " Anglo-Saxon Chronicles."

Other early records of the name include Simon Clapp in the Curia Regis Rolls for Oxfordshire in 1206; William le Clop in the Assize Rolls of Yorkshire of 1222; and Laurence Clappe listed in the Pipe Rolls for Oxfordshire in 1230.

Clapp Spelling Variations

Spelling variations in names were a common occurrence before English spelling was standardized a few hundred years ago. In the Middle Ages, even the literate spelled their names differently as the English language incorporated elements of French, Latin, and other European languages. Many variations of the name Clapp have been found, including Clapp, Clap, Clapps and others.

Clapp Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

Thomas Clapp, who was on record in Barnstable Massachusetts in 1630

Roger Clapp, who arrived at Nantasket, MA, aboard the "Mary and John" in 1630

Roger Clapp, who arrived in America in 1630

Edward Clapp, who settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1633

Elija Clapp, who arrived in Virginia in 1648