Jane Alderman

Jane CLAPP, daughter of Nicholas Clapp and Elizabeth, was born 1611 in Sidbury, Devon, England. She married John ALDERMAN on 1632 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts. She was not the same person as Jane Pope

John Alderman (1584 - 1657) migrated on the Recovery, 1634. Jane predeceased him. No recorded children.

Elizabeth Deacon and her children John & Jonathan were legatees in John’s 1657 will, along with Clapps, but she was not named as his daughter.

Notes

Anderson writes in The Great Migration Project (AncestryImage) that Pope claimed, without citing evidence, that Jane, wife of John Pope, of Dorchester, was the daughter of Nicholas Clapp, Sr.. He did have a daughter of the right age, but she married John Alderman, of Salem

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) Vol 1 p 278 says she *probably* married Hercules Searle. But Robert Charles Anderson Great Migration Series 2 Vol 1 p 21 says she may have been wife of John Alderman. Quite possibly Jane Clapp daughter of Nicholas Clapp of Sidbury Devon; See the will of John Alderman - he left much of his estate to the Clapp family.

From https://www.ancestry.com/boards/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=39&p=surnames...

The Following is taken from the Clapp Memorial Record of the Clapp Family in America, by Ebenezer Clapp:

The children of Richard his 2nd wife are: 1. Nicholas Clapp, b. 1570, Sydbury, Devonshire, Eng. d. Mar. 14, 1631, Ven Ottery, Devon, Eng. md. Elizabeth __ 1602, Dorchester, Devon

Nicholas & Elizabeth’s children:

3. Jane Clapp, b. 1608 (same as 1 2). d. c. 1668 Eng. Hercules Searle, c. 1628, Devon, Eng.

References

• Anderson, Robert Charles, 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. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2007. Reference pages 483-487. AncestryImage
• New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635. Name John Alderman Gender Male Birth Date 1584 Emigration Year 1634 First Residence Place Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA Est Year Changed Residence 1636 Also Resided At Salem Death Date 1657 Ship Recovery AncestryImage
• https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/b/a/l/Miriam-M-Balson/WEBSITE-0001/UH... Nicholas Clapp, Sr. (b. Abt. 1575, d. March 14, 1630/31) Nicholas Clapp, Sr. (son of Richard Clap and Christian) was born Abt. 1575 in Sidbury,Devonshire,,England , and died March 14, 1630/31 in Ven Ottery,Devon,,England.He married Elizabeth on Abt. 1603
• http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~hwbradley/genealogy/aqwg1128.htm#18130 cites
  • 1Mary & John Clearing House (Burton W. Spear, Editor), "American Descendants of Richard Clapp," Search for the Passengers of the "Mary & John," (1990) (Toledo, Ohio.), 13:54.
  • 2Sumner, Edith Bartlett, Descendants of Thomas Farr of Harpswell, Maine (Los Angeles: American Offset Printers, 1959.), p. 56, Family History Library, 929.273 F24s.*
  • 3Holman, Mary Lovering, Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and His Wife Frances Helen Miller (Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Press, 1948-52.), 1:278, Family History Library, 929.273 St47h.
  • 4Smith, Dean Crawford, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996.), 4:129, Family History Library, 929.273 K329sm.
  • 5Perley, Sidney, The History of Salem, Massachusetts (Salem, Massachusetts: S. Perley, 1924-1928.), 1:368, Los Angeles Public Library, Gen 974.42 S16Pe