William Clapp (abt. 1565 - 1640)

Born about 1565 in Salcombe Regis, Devon, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Johana (Channon) Clapp — married 11 Sep 1593 in Sidmouth, Devon, England

Descendants

Died 1 Mar 1640 at about age 75 in Salcombe Regis, Devon, England

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Biography

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.^[1][2][3]

Children

Children per Smith, Dean Crawford, and Melinde Lutz Sanborn published by NEHGS in The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908:^[1]

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.

Not his Christening

Christening: 6 Aug 1561 Sidbury, Devon, Eng

William Clapp, son of William Clapp and Elizabeth, was baptized 06 Aug 1561, BRANSCOMBE, DEVON, ENGLAND^[12]

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 link
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.
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
12. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NRMC-CYM : 11 February 2018, William Clapp, 06 Aug 1561); citing , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 0962972 IT 2.

• Devon Marriages (database), transcription provided by Devon Family History Society
• Parish marriage register (Sidmouth) via findmypast [groom named Wyllyam Clappe]