Person:Thomas Clapp (9)

Deacon Thomas Clapp
m. Bef 1605
  1. Richard Clapp1605 - Bef 1682
  2. Prudence ClappEst 1606 - Bet 1646 & 1650
  3. Deacon Thomas ClappAbt 1608 - 1684
  4. Redegon Clapp1609 - 1645
  5. Jane ClappEst 1610 - Bef 1655
  6. Nicholas ClappAbt 1612 - 1679
  7. Barbara ClappEst 1614 - 1655
  8. John ClappEst 1616 - Bef 1655
  9. Ambrose ClappEst 1618 - 1655
  • HDeacon Thomas ClappAbt 1608 - 1684
m. Bef 1639
  1. Thomas Clapp1639/40 - 1690
  2. Increase Clapp1640 - 1716
  3. Samuel ClappBet 1642 & 1645 -
  4. Eleazer ClappAbt 1645 - 1675/76
  5. Elizabeth ClappAbt 1645 - 1698
  6. Prudence ClappAbt 1649 -
  • HDeacon Thomas ClappAbt 1608 - 1684
  • WAbigail WrightAbt 1622 - Bef 1707
m. Bef 24 Apr 1656
  1. John Clapp1658 - Abt 1671
  2. Abigail Clapp1659/60 - 1736
Facts and Events
Name Deacon Thomas Clapp
Gender Male
Birth[1][2] Abt 1608 Sidbury, Devon, England
Marriage Bef 1639 to Unknown
Marriage Bef 24 Apr 1656 to Abigail Wright
Death[1][2] 20 Apr 1684 Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States

Arrived in MA. July 24, 1633, having sailed from Weymouth, England. "Of Weymouth and Scituate" From Barnstable Family page 249. Will dated April 19, 1684 in the 87th year of my age. Pioneers of MASS page 100-101. Of Ottery Vin Parish England. 50 Ancestors of Henry Lincoln Clapp page 20 " Mr Clapp was a deputy to the courts in 1649 and overseer of the poor in 1667 that being the first year such officers were chosen"

Parents

The earliest comprehensive account of this Clap family was Ebenezer Clapp's The Clapp Memorial. Record of the Clapp Family in America ... (Boston, MA: 1876), pp. 91-94. Brief mention was made in 1889 in NEHGR 15:255 (1861) and NEHGR 43:429 (1889). Mary Lovering Holman prepared The Scott Genealogy . . . (Boston 1919) p 22, 229 and Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his wife Frances Helen Miller (n.p. 1948) 1:280. In 1959 Edith Bartlett Surnner produced Edith Bartlett Sumner, Descendants of Thomas Farr of Harpswell, Maine, and Ninety Allied Families (Los Angeles 1959) 61-641. In 1945 Walter Goodwin Davis published an account in The Ancestry of Joseph Neal, 1769-c.1835 (Portland, Maine, 1945) 87-93. In 1992 a brief mention was made of Thomas Clapp by Gale Ion Harris in “Captain Richard Wright of the Twelve-Mile Island and the Burnhams of Podunk” in The American Genealogist 67:38. In 2001 Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn Jr. and Melinde Lutz Sanborn produced account in The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635 (Boston, MA: NEHGS 2001) 2:76-81. According to Robert Charles Anderson all of these accounts were superseded by the study of the Clapp family by Dean Crawford Smith and Melinde Lutz Sanborn in The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908, Part IV: The Ancestry of Linda Anna Powers, 1839-1879 (Boston, MA: NEHGS 2000) 114-195. Anderson should know as he is editor and peer reviews the NEHGS publications and Melinde Lutz Sanborn was co-author of the Great Migration series. This is the most comprehensive study of the Clapp family ever published and includes extensive records from England. What does this study conclude? Thomas Clapp was son of Nicholas Clapp. Internet sites showing Richard Clapp as father to Thomas Clapp are probably based on the mistated age in his will.

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Chamberlain, George Walter. History of Weymouth, Massachusetts. (Weymouth, Massachusetts: Weymouth Historical Society, under direction of the town, 1923)
    3:159.

    Thomas Clapp, s/o Richard Clapp, b. Dorchester, England, d. Scituate 20 Apr 1684, m. (1) unknown wife, m. (2) abt 1657 Abigail ---, widow of Robert Sharpe.

  2. 2.0 2.1 Davis, Walter Goodwin. The Ancestry of Joseph Neal: 1769-c.1835 of Litchfield, Maine. (Portland, Maine: Portland, Maine : Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1945, 1945)
    91.

    Will, dated 19 Apr 1684, proved 4 Jun 1684, mentions wife Abigail, son Samuel, Thomas, Increase; daughters Elizabeth King, Prudence Clapp, Abigail Clapp, daughter Mary Tilden [identified as his wife's daughter by an earlier marriage: Mary Sharp who m. Nathaniel Tilden], grandchild Elizabeth. This source says that the oft-quoted line in this will that says "in ye 87 year of my age" is probably off by 10 years, as in 1678, he testified he was about 69 years, so 6 years later, he should have only been about 75.

  3.   Part IV: The Ancestry of Linda Anna Powers, 1839-1879 , in Smith, Dean Crawford, and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2008)
    114-195, 2000.

    Nicholas Clapp named his children in his will: James, Thomas, Barbara, Radegon, John and Ambrose [Inquisition indented taken 2nd May 9 Charles [I][1633] of Nicholas Clapp died 12th March 7 Charles [1631/2].also Richard and Nicholas son and next heir were "24 years or more" on 2 May 1633. i.e 1609 or later. Plymouth Colony Deed 4:176 deposed aged 69 in 1678 i.e. 1608.Thomas died 20 Apr 1684. Thomas m/1 Jane ___ b say 1617 d bef Jan 1556 m/2 Abigail (Wright) Sharp b abt 1623 d btw 28 Nov 1702 (will) and 13 Feb 1707/8 (proved). Jane was mother to his six children. John Clapp in 1655 named in his will his brother Thomas Clapp and his children Elizabeth, Prudence, Samuel and "the rest of his children." [Suffolk Probate 1:111 ]. Thomas rec'd legacy from his father Nicholas 1631 and sailed 1637,Hingham lists 13 Mar 1638; Sidbury, Devon, England 5 Jun 1644; Transcription of Will and Inventory p 134-137;

  4.   Edward Clapp, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
    Vol II:79-81.

    Thomas Clapp immigrant to New England was brother to Nicholas Clap {1637 Dorchester}, John Clapp {New England 1640's}, Prudence Clap, Barbara Clap, Radigon Clap and Jane Clap who almost certainly married John Alderman. Anderson and Sanborn review the literature published to date and note that all of these accounts were superseded by the study of the Clapp family by Dean Crawford Smith and Melinde Lutz Sanborn in The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908, Part IV: The Ancestry of Linda Anna Powers, 1839-1879 (Boston, MA: NEHGS 2000) 114-195. [Note: Anderson is editor and peer reviews the NEHGS publications and including the Kempton Series and Melinde Lutz Sanborn was co-author of both the Great Migration series and the Eva Bella Kempton Series].