Edward's brother, in his memoirs, told of his voyage over, the journey up the coast when the ship captain failed to deliver them at the Charles River, the friendly "old planters" and the friendly Indians.

"...I do not remember that ever I did wish in my heart that I had not come into this country, or wish myself back again to my father's house. Yea, I was so far from that, that I wished and advised some of my dear brethren to come hither also; which accordingly one of my brothers [Edward] and those two that married my two sisters [Nicholas Clap and George Weeks] sold their means and came hither [Roger Clap, Memoirs of Capt. Roger Clap (Boston 1731; rpt. Boston 1844), p.20].

Roger Clap deposed on 1 February 1664[/5, "aged fifty-five years or thereabout," with John Capen, aged fifty-one years, and Nicholas Clap, aged fifty-two or thereabouts that we every one of us being present at the house of Edward Clappe, on the third day of January 1664 did hear the writing now presented read unto the said Edward Clap, now deceased, & he approved of it to be his will & he caused it to be read again, in the hearing of his wife, to see if she had any exception to make & then appointed it to be writ fairly out again, which accordingly was forthwith done, & we coming to the intent to have it perfected, were informed that he was asleep & therefore were not willing to trouble him, it being late in the night, went away and forbore at that present, & afterward it was neglected to be presented, so nothing else was done..." [Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Probate Records, Vol.1, p.443].

Edward Clapp Date: 07 Dec 1636. [Ancestry.com. Massachusetts Applications of Freemen, 1630-1691 [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2000. Original data: Paige, Lucius R. List of Freemen of Massachusetts. Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1849, C. R., Vol. I. p. 194].