"President Thomas Clap of Yale (ancestor of President Charles Seymour of Yale) - see New England Ancestors 1:5-6 (2000): 41 - was a son of Stephen Clap and Temperance Gorham, daughter by Mary Otis of John Gorham, Jr., son of John Gorham and Desire Howland. Among Thomas Clap's other descendants was Emily Baldwin Perkins, wife of Unitarian clergyman Edward Everett Hale, author of "The Man Without a Country." Emily was the daughter (by Mary Foote Beecher, sister of Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe) of Thomas Clap Perkins, son of Enoch Perkins and Anne Pitkin, daughter of Timothy Pitkin and Temperance Clap (daughter of President Thomas)."
