"John Pope (married) … by about 1633 Jane _____. … Pope claimed, without providing any evidence, that the wife of John Pope was 'daughter of Nicholas Clap, of Venn Ottery. co. Devon' [Pope 368]. Nicholas Clapp did have a daughter Jane, of about the right age, but she appears to have married John Alderman {1634, Dorchester} [Kempton Anc 4:124-31; GM 2:1:20-23]."
