Person:Roger Clapp (1)

Roger Clapp lived in Dorchester in 1630, he came on the Mary and John from Plymouth on 20 Mar 1630. He was born at Salcombe Regis, on the coast of Devonshire, England on 6 Apr 1609. He was the youngest of 5 sons and arrived at Nantasket 30 May 1630 with his Reverend friend Maverick and Warham. He married Joanna Ford on 6 Nov 1633, she was the daughter of Thomas Ford, a fellow passenger. Roger Clapp was in the ancient and honorable artillery company of Massachusetts in 1646. Its Lieutenant in 1655 and Captain of the Castle in 1665 on the death of Davenport in which post he continued until Andros, when he relinquished it. He was Representative between 1652 and 1673 and died 2 Feb 1692 in his 86th year. His wife died 29 Jun 1695 at age 78. Clapp's Memoirs (a book) are quite interesting and may be read as reprinted in Young's Chronicles of Massachusetts (Genealogical Directory of the First Settlers of New England, Volume I, page 390).

Arrived 30 May, 1630 on Mary & John. Representative to the General Court for 15 years. In 1650, they gave him 500 Acres. "FDR’s Colonial Ancestors" - His sister Sarah m. cousin Nicholas Clapp. Commanded "the Castle," guarding entrance to Boston Harbor, for many years.

Search for passengers of the Mary and John Vol 4

• Samuel Clapp m. (1) Hannah Leeds 18 Jan 1658
  
• Elizabeth Clapp m. (1) Joseph Holmes 1660
  
• Preserved Clapp, Capt. m. (1) Sarah Newberry 4 June 1668
  
• Hopestill Clapp m. (1) Susanna Swift 18 Feb 1672
  
• Wait Clapp m. (1) Jonathan Simpson 3 Apr 1673 Charlestown CT
  
• Thanks Clapp m. (1) D. Young
  

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} Roger Clap, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
   1:364-370.

   ORIGIN: Exeter, Devonshire.
   MIGRATION: 1630.
   BIRTH: Salcombe Regis, Devonshire, 2 April 1609 (deposed "aged sixty-two or thereabouts" 31 October 1671 [SCC 8]), son of William and Johan (Channon) Clap [Stevens-Miller Anc 1:278-80]. "I was born in England, in Sallcom, in Devonshire, in the year of our Lord 1609" [Clap 17].
   DEATH: Boston 2 February 1690/1 [BVR 193]. "This morn Capt. Roger Clap dies" [ Sewall 274 (giving the exaggerated age at death of 86)].
   MARRIAGE: Dorchester 6 November 1633 Joanna Ford, daughter of THOMAS FORD; she died [29?] June 1695 [King's Chapel 244].

2. ↑ Capt Roger Clapp, in Find A Grave.
3.   Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862).

   
   1:388; CLAP; DESIRE; "DESIRE, Dorchester, s. of capt. Roger, freem. 1669, m. Sarah Pond, perhaps d. of Robert the sec. but the Rev. Mr. Danforth had writ. long after, on the paper that ment. bapt. of Sarah, 6 Feb. 1642, that she m. Ezra C. thus mistak. her for her sis. He had William, b. 9 Oct. 1680, d. young; Desire, 6 Mar. 1682, ..."
   
   1:388-389; CLAP; EDWARD; "EDWARD, Dorchester, br. of capt. Roger, came in 1633, and was made freem. 7 Dec. 1636, selectman 1637, deac. 25 or 6 yrs. by first w. Prudence, sis. of Ambrose, John, Nicholas Richard, and Thomas Clap, had Elizabeth b. 1634; Prudence, 28 Dec. 1637 Ezra, 22, bapt. 24 May 1640; Nehemiah, a. Sept. 1646; and Susanna ..."
   
   1:389; CLAP; HOPESTILL; "HOPESTILL, Dorchester, s. of Roger freem. 1678, m. 18 Apr. 1672, Susanna, d. of Thomas Swift, had Susanna, b. 23 Dec. 1673; Elizabeth 29 Feb. 1676; Sarah, 13 Jan. 1678 Hopestill, 26 Nov. 1679; Ruth, 10 Oct. 1682; Mary, 22 Sept. 1685, d. soon; Supply, 25 Oct. 1686, d. in few weeks; Jerijah, or Jarizah, ..."
   
   1:390; CLAP; PRESERVED; "PRESERVED, Northampton, s. of Roger, m. 1668, Sarah, d. of Benjamin Newberry of Windsor, had Sarah, b. 1668, d. young; Wait, 1670; Mary, 1672, d. at 19 yrs.; Preserved, 1675; Samuel, 1677; Hannah, 1681; Roger, 1684; and Thomas, 1688; was freem. 1690, capt. and rul. elder, and d. Sept. 1720."
   
   1:390; CLAP; ROGER; "ROGER, Dorchester 1630, came in the Mary and John, from Plymouth, 20 Mar. 1630, was b. at Salcomb Regis, on the coast of Devonsh. 6 Apr. 1609, the youngest of five s. and arr. at Nantasket, 30 May, with his rev. friends Maverick and Warham, m. 6 Nov. 1633, Joanna, d. of Thomas Ford, a fellow-passeng. ..."
   
   1:390-391; CLAP; SAMUEL 1 of 2; "SAMUEL, Dorchester, eldest s. of the preced. m. 18 Nov. 1659, Hannah, only d. of Richard Leeds, had Samuel, b. 22 Feb. 1662, d. at six yrs.; John, 16 June 1664, d. at one yr.; Hannah, 28 Sept. 1666, d. at 12 yrs.; Samuel, again, 6 Aug. 1668, a lieut. wh. d. 30 Jan. 1725; Experience, 8 July 1670, d. at one yr.; ..."
   
   2:183; FORD or FOORDE; THOMAS 1 of 3; "... was sworn in 18 Mar foll. brot. ch. Abigail, wh. m. perhaps in 1638, John Strong; Joanna m. 1633, Roger Clap; one wh. m. Aaron Cooke; and Hepzibah, wh. m. Richard Lyman; but these two last, with the first, were m. after his rem. 1636, to Windsor, where he was rep. 1638-41, 4, and 54. His w. d. Apr. 1643, ..."
   
   4:101; SIMSON, SYMSON or SIMPSON; JONTHAN; "JONTHAN, Charlestown, br. of the preced. by w. Wait, d. of capt. Roger Clap, had Jonathan, bapt. 1 Mar. 1685; and Wait, 5 Apr. foll. the parents join. the ch. on the last Sunday of Feb. preced."
   
   4:417-418; WARHAM; JOHN; "... came in the Mary and John from Plymouth 1630, having been a min. at Exeter in Co. Devon, where capt. Roger Clap, wh. in his humble, but invalu. tract, gives the best acco. of him, had in his youth, heard his teaching; yet we kn. not, at wh. of the univ. he was bred, if at either, tho. so much may be presum. as ..."
   
   

4. ↑ His parents are identified only in the CD ROM version, not in the print version.