1643 - 1720 (76 years)
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Name |
Preserved Clapp |
Prefix |
Eld. |
Birth |
23 November 1643 |
Dorchester, MA [1] |
Gender |
Male |
Baptism |
26 November 1643 |
Dorchester, MA [1] |
Death |
20 September 1720 |
Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts |
Notes |
- From The Clapp Memorial, pages 9–10
Preserved, son of Roger and Johanna Clapp, was born Nov. 23, 1643. He lived in Dorchester during the first twenty years or more of his life, when he removed to Northampton, then a far distant settlement in the western limits of the colony, and comprising, with Springfield, the whole inhabited portion of western Massachusetts. (“For a hundred years or more after the first settlement of Northampton,” says the historian, B. W. Dwight, “it was a week’s journey, for man and horse, to go to Boston; and the path was distinguishable by marks cut upon the trees through the long stretch of forest that lay between the two places.”) Here he soon became one of the leading men in civil and ecclesiastical affairs, and his usefulness was continued during a long and active life. “He was,” says Blake, “a good instrument and a great blessing to the town of Northampton, where he lived. He was a Captain of the town, and their Representative in the General Court, and Ruling Elder in the church.” He married, June 4, 1668, fourteen years after the settlement of the town was begun, Sarah, daughter of Benjamin Newbury, of Windsor, Ct., who went from Dorchester to that place. They had seven children who lived to grow up. He died at Northampton, Sept. 20, 1720, aged about 77 years. She died Oct 3, 1716. [2]
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Person ID |
I8252 |
Schirado |
Last Modified |
17 January 2020 |
Father |
Capt. Roger Clap, b. 2 April 1609, Salcombe Regis, Devon d. 2 February 1690/1, Boston, MA (Age 81 years) |
Mother |
Joan Ford, b. about 1617, England d. June 1695, Boston, MA (Age ~ 78 years) |
Marriage |
6 November 1633 |
Dorchester, MA [1] |
Family ID |
F5867 |
Family Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family/Spouse |
Sarah Newberry, b. 14 June 1650, Windsor, CT d. 3 October 1716, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts (Age 66 years) |
Marriage |
4 June 1668 |
Windsor, CT [1] |
Children |
| 1. Sarah Clapp, b. 24 February 1668/9, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts |
+ | 2. Waite Clapp, b. 18 November 1670, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts d. 29 January 1721/2, Norwalk, CT (Age 51 years) |
| 3. Mary Clapp, b. 14 December 1672, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts d. 2 November 1691, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts (Age 18 years) |
+ | 4. Capt. Preserved Clapp, b. 29 April 1675, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts d. 11 October 1757, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts (Age 82 years) |
+ | 5. Samuel Clapp, b. 1677, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts d. August 1761, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts (Age 84 years) |
| 6. Hannah Clapp, b. 3 May 1681, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts d. 8 November 1758, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts (Age 77 years) |
+ | 7. Roger Clapp, b. 24 May 1684, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts d. 9 January 1762, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts (Age 77 years) |
+ | 8. Ens. Thomas Clapp, b. 16 June 1688, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts d. 1745, Hartford, CT (Age 56 years) |
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Family ID |
F5916 |
Family Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Sources |
- [S11] Robert Charles Anderson, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1995).
- [S19] Ebenezer Clapp, (Boston, Clapp & Son, 1876.).
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