Elder William Clapp, of Salcombe Regis

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Biography

WILLIAM3 CLAPP (Richard2, William CLAP1), son of (2) Richard2 CLAPP, was born in 1565 in Salcombe, and died between March 1640 and 1675. He married in Salcombe, on 11 Sept. 1593, JOHAN CHANNON, daughter of Robert and Joane CHANNON, who was born circa 1570, and died on 5 Aug. 1620..[1][2][3]

Children

1. Robert born say 1600 had two sons Robert and John by 1641. Mary Lovering Holman published in Scott genealogy that his wife was Dorothy but later retracted that in Stevens-Miller Ancestry. Dorothy was wife to his son Robert.[4][5]
2. John moved to Colyton, Devon and had a son Robert.[4][5]
3. Jane, married George Weeks and immigrated to Dorchester in 1637 and had children William, Jane, Ammiel and Joseph. She married second to Jonas Humphrey. She left a very detailed will.[4][5][6][7]
4. Edward, born by about 1609 [estimated based on date of marriage]. He immigrated in 1635 on the Hopewell to Dorchester. He died at Dorchester 8 Jan 1664/5. He married first his first cousin Prudence Clapp daughter of Nicholas Clapp. He married second Susanna Cockerill. His family is covered in detail in The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635: 2:2:76-81[8]
5. William married 10 OCT 1633 in Seaton, Devon, England Dorothy Gray and had sons William and Elezeus. He died by 6 Sep 1636 in Salcombe Regis, Devon testate leaving a will naming his siblings including Edward "which now lives in New England."[4][5]
6. Roger, baptized in Salcombe Regis 2 April 1609, youngest son. He immigrated in 1630 on the Mary & John to Dorchester. He died on 2 Feb 1690 in Boston. He married 6 Nov 1633 in Dorchester Joanna Ford. His family is covered in detail in Dawes-Gates 1:155-75 and the Great Migration Begins 364-70.[9][10]
7. Sarah, baptized in Salcombe Regis 18 August 1611. She married her cousin Nicholas Clapp son of Nicholas Clapp and immigrated to Dorchester in 1636 (Search for the passengers of the Mary & John: 27:12). They had four children Sarah, Nathaniel, Ebenezer and Hannah. Sarah Clapp died by 1667 and her husband remarried two more times. See Nicholas Clapp in Kempton Ancestry.[1][2][11]

Will of William Clapp the elder of Salcomb (Regis), Devon dated 1 Mar. 1640

• Son, Edward.
• Son, Roger
• Daughter, Jane (ancestor of US president Garfield).
• Daughter, Sarah.
• Grandchild, William Weekes.
• Son, Robert
• Son, John.
• Grandchild, John Clapp.
• Grandchild, Hester Clapp.
• Grandchild, William Clapp, the younger.
• Daughter-in-law, Dorothy Clapp.
• Son Robert's children, Robert and John Clapp.
• Grandchild, James Clapp.
• Grandchild, Elizens Clapp.
• Godchild, Elizabeth Turk.
• Residue to sons, Robert and John Clapp.
• Witnesses: Robert Clappe and Dorothy Clap.
• Inventory value: 16 pounds.

Sources

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Spear, Burton W. Search for the passengers of the Mary & John, 1630. (Toledo, Ohio: B.W. Spear, c1985-), Vol. 4. link
3. ↑ 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
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Mary Lovering Holman, The Scott Genealogy . . . (Boston 1919) 224-30 link
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 # 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
6. ↑ "Jonas1 Humphry" in The American Genealogist (New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1993) 68:19
7. ↑ NEHGR 156:150-52
8. ↑ Edward Clap, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (NEHGS, 1999-2011), II:76-81. ORIGIN: Salcombe Regis, Devonshire. CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: "Edward Clappe" and "Prudence Clappe" were among those admitted to the second church at Dorchester on or soon after the organization of the church on 23 August 1636; the entry is apparently annotated to indicate that Edward Clap was deacon, probably at a later date [DChR 3]. "The 8th day of the eleventh month [January] 1664[/5] being Sabbath Day Deacon Edward Clap departed this life & now resteth with the Lord there to keep an eternal Sabbath with God & Christ in heaven, after that he had faithfully served in the office of a deacon for the space of about five or six and twenty years, and being the first church officer of this church that was taken away by death since the first joining together in Covenant which is now 28 years four months and odd days" [DChR 9]. FREEMAN: 7 December 1636 (second in a sequence of seven Dorchester men) [MBCR 1:372].
9. ↑ Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines (n.p., 1943) 1:155-75 link
10. ↑ Roger Clapp in Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 , 3 volumes (Boston 1995) 364-70 link ORIGIN: Exeter, Devonshire. MIGRATION: 1630. BIRTH: Salcombe Regis, Devonshire, 2 April 1609 (deposed "aged sixty-two or thereabouts" 31 October 1671 [SCC 8]), son of William and Johan (Channon) Clap [Stevens-Miller Anc 1:278-80]. "I was born in England, in Sallcom, in Devonshire, in the year of our Lord 1609" [Clap 17]. DEATH: Boston 2 February 1690/1 [BVR 193]. "This morn Capt. Roger Clap dies" [ Sewall 274 (giving the exaggerated age at death of 86)]. MARRIAGE: Dorchester 6 November 1633 Joanna Ford, daughter of THOMAS FORD; she died [29?] June 1695 [King's Chapel 244].
11. ↑ Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Joseph Neal, 1769-c.1835 (Portland, Maine, 1945) 87-93

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