Person:John Clapp (31)

John born say 1616 son of Nicholas Clapp; died between 11 Jul 1655 (will) and 24 Jul 1655 (inventory) citing Suffolk Probate 1:111 and 3:27 footnote has abstract of a very interesting well; m say 1644 Joan ____ b say 1624 d 2 Mar 1703/4 Medfield; No ch; She m/2 John Ellis, etc.

The following two sentences from The Great Migration indicate that all of the following where children of Nicholas Clapp: "A second group of Clap siblings... came to New England: NICHOLAS CLAP {1637, Dorchester}, THOMAS CLAP {1638, Weymouth}; John Clap, who was in New England by the 1640s; Prudence Clap, wife of our Edward; Barbara Clap, wife of JOSEPH WELD {1635, Roxbury}; and Radigon Clap, who remarried John Capen, son of BERNARD CAPEN {1633, Dorchester} Joseph Neal Anc 88-89; Scott Gen 227-30; Stevens-Miller Anc 1:278). Another sister, Jane Clap, was almost certainly wife of JOHN ALDERMAN {1634, Dorchester} {GM 2: 1:20-23}."