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John Clapp

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m. Bef 24 Apr 1656

Facts and Events

Name	John Clapp
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	18 Oct 1658	Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Christening^[2]	31 Oct 1658	Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Death^[3]	Abt 1671	Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ Foster, F. Apthorp. Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. (Boston, Mass: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1909)
1:73.

Clap, John, s. Thomas, Oct. 18, 1658. [Clappe, CR2]
↑ "Records of the Second Church of Scituate", in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
57:86.

1658. John the sonne of Thomas Clappe Octob. 31 [baptized].
↑ Davis, Walter Goodwin. The Ancestry of Joseph Neal: 1769-c.1835 of Litchfield, Maine. (Portland, Maine: Portland, Maine : Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1945, 1945)
93.

He died when he was "little more than thirteen years old". Apparently his illness and death were the subject of a book by his pastor, Rev. Mr. Witherell. The book can no longer be found, but is referred to, and quoted at length, in Rev. Cotton Mather's Magnalia [including the quote about his age at death, see Source:Mather, Cotton. Magnalia Christi Americana, or, the Ecclesiastical History of New-England, p. 480].