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- H. Rev. Thomas Clapp1703 - 1767
- W. Mary Haynes1703 - 1769
m. 5 Feb 1741
Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
Rev. Thomas Clapp |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1][2][3] |
20 Jun 1703 |
Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States |
| Christening[1][3] |
6 Aug 1704 |
Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States |
| Marriage |
23 Nov 1727 |
Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United Statesto Mary Whiting |
| Marriage |
5 Feb 1741 |
New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United Statesto Mary Haynes |
| Death[2] |
7 Jun 1767 |
New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States |
Source:New Englander and Yale Review, 55:428: From the journal of Mr. Clap:
July, 1718, I entered college.
July, 1722, I took my first degree.
July, 1725, I took my second degree.
Dec. 31st, 1725, I came to Windham to preach in order to a settlement.
Aug. 3d, 1726, I was ordained.
Nov. 23d, 1727, I was married to Mary Whiting, the daughter of the Rev. Mr. Samuel Whiting, my worthy predecessor.
Dec. 10th, 1739. A council met at Windham and gave me their opinion and advice, that I had a clear call of Providence to accept of the Rectorate of Yale College. And having carefully weighed and considered all circumstances as well as I could, on so great and important an affair, and having earnestly begged the Divine assistance and direction, I concluded to undertake that important charge...
Monument [Grove Street Cemetery, Maple Ave., Lot 40.]: "Here lyeth interred the body of the reverend and learned Mr. Thomas Clap, the late president of Yale College in New Haven; a truly great man, a gentleman of superior natural genius, most assiduous application and indefatigable industry. In the various branches of learning he greatly excelled, an accomplished instructor; a patron of the College; a great Divine, bold for the truth; a zealous promoter and defender of the doctrines of grace, of unaffected piety and a pattern of every virtue; the tenderest of fathers and the best of friends; the glory of learning and the ornament of religion; for thirteen years the faithful and much respected pastor of the Church in Windham, and near twenty-seven years the laborious and principal President of the College and having served his own generation, by the will of God; with serenity and calmness he fell on sleep, the 7th day of January 1767, in his sixty-fourth year."[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 White, Elizabeth Pearson. John Howland of the Mayflower: The First Five Generations. (Rockland, Maine: Picton Press, 1990-2008)
83. - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Allen, William. An American biographical and historical dictionary: containing an account of the lives, characters, and writings of the most eminent persons in North America from its first settlement, and a summary of the history of the several colonies and of the United States. (Boston, Massachusetts: William Hyde, 1832)
226.
Thomas Clap, b. Scituate 26 Jun 1703, d. New Haven 7 Jun 1767, President of Yale College 1739-1766, m. (1) daughter [Mary] of Samuel Whiting, m. (2) Mary, d/o John Haynes, widow of Rosewell Saltonstall
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Foster, F. Apthorp. Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. (Boston, Mass: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1909)
1:75.
Clap, Thomas, s. Stephen, [born] June 20, 1703.
Clap, Thomas, s. Stephen, bp. Aug. 6, 1704. C.R.2.
[CR2=Second Church of Scituate, now the first Unitarian Church of Norwell.]
- ↑ New Haven Colony Historical Society (New Haven, Connecticut). Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical Society. (New Haven [Connecticut]: The Society)
3:505.
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