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Eld. Preserved Clapp

Male 1643 - 1720  (76 years)


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  • Name Preserved Clapp 
    Prefix Eld. 
    Birth 23 November 1643  Dorchester, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Baptism 26 November 1643  Dorchester, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Death 20 September 1720  Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    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]
    Person ID I8252  Schirado
    Last Modified 17 January 2020 

    Father Capt. Roger Clap,   b. 2 April 1609, Salcombe Regis, Devon Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 February 1690/1, Boston, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years) 
    Mother Joan Ford,   b. about 1617, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. June 1695, Boston, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 78 years) 
    Marriage 6 November 1633  Dorchester, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Family ID F5867  Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family/Spouse Sarah Newberry,   b. 14 June 1650, Windsor, CT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 October 1716, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years) 
    Marriage 4 June 1668  Windsor, CT Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Children 
     1. Sarah Clapp,   b. 24 February 1668/9, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location
    +2. Waite Clapp,   b. 18 November 1670, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 January 1721/2, Norwalk, CT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 51 years)
     3. Mary Clapp,   b. 14 December 1672, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 November 1691, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 18 years)
    +4. Capt. Preserved Clapp,   b. 29 April 1675, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 October 1757, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)
    +5. Samuel Clapp,   b. 1677, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. August 1761, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years)
     6. Hannah Clapp,   b. 3 May 1681, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 November 1758, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years)
    +7. Roger Clapp,   b. 24 May 1684, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 January 1762, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years)
    +8. Ens. Thomas Clapp,   b. 16 June 1688, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1745, Hartford, CT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 56 years)
    Family ID F5916  Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S11] Robert Charles Anderson, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1995).

    2. [S19] Ebenezer Clapp, (Boston, Clapp & Son, 1876.).


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