Clapp #2
1. Hannah Clapp: Born 20 September 1646, Dorchester, Suffolk, MA; Died Northampton, MA; Married 14 October 1668, MA; Elder Ebenezer Strong: Born 1643, Dorchester, Suffolk, MA; Died 11 February 1729, MA. (See Strong)
2. Deacon Nicholas Clapp: Born 1612, Sudbury, Suffolk, England; Died 24 November 1679, Dorchester, Suffolk, MA; Married his first cousin Sarah Clapp: Born 18 August 1611, Salcome Regis, Devonshire?, England; Died 1650, Dorchester, Suffolk, MA. Nicholas was a Town officer in Dorchester MA. Nicholas was the son of Richard Clapp of England, and was born in England in 1612. Of his brothers, Thomas came with him to this country, John emigrated some time afterwards, and Ambrose and Richard remained behind. It was doubtless by the advice and encouragement of his cousin Captain Roger Clapp, who was three years his senior, that he came to New England. He probably arrived in Dorchester in 1633, as his name appears on the records of the town the next year. Many others alsoarrived from Old England in 1633 and the year previous, so that the inhabitants had become many more in numbers than the few score who came with Roger in 1630.
That year found them with a meeting-house built, and witnessed also the commencement of the practice of choosing a body of Selectmen to manage the affairs of the town. A fort was likewise ordered to be built in 1633 on "ye Rock upon Rock-hill," to be paid for by the town, and liberty was given Mr. Israel Stoughton to build a mill on Neponset River. Mr. Clapp was a man highly respected by his contemporaries; he held a number of of the responsible offices of the town, and was a Deacon of the Church. His name is found on the list of jurors at a special court in September, 1653, relative to disputed matters connected with the Lynn Iron Works. He married, first, Sarah Clapp, a sister to Captain Roger Clapp; he married, second, Abigail, widdow of Robert Sharp, of Brookline. He lived in the north part of the town, on the westerly side of what is now Boston Street, a little south of the Five Corners.
He owned land in various other places, as will be seen by his inventory, many acres being located in parts long since occupied by streets and buildings. In 1667, a tax was laid by the town of half a penny on each acre of ploughed land in the Neck (now South Boston), and Nicholas' tax that year was 11d. For the use of land on the Neck as pasture, no tax was assessed. He died sudenly in his barn.
In 1849, several of his descendants in Dorchester adn Boston actuated by a desire that some fitting memorial of his worth and of his position as their emigrant ancestor, should be preserved in the ancient cemetary where he was buried, caused to be erected there a handsome marble grave-stone, on which is inscribed the following epitaph. The stone is near the westerly corner of the ground, but a few feet distant from Stoughton Street, and around it are the simple headstones of many of his relatives and contemporaries.
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The Puritans are dead! One Vernerable head Pillows below. His grave is with us seen, 'Neath Summer's Gorgeous Green And Autumn's golden sheen And Winter's snow.
In Memory of Deacon Nicholas Clapp One of the early settlers of Dorchester.
He came to New England about 1633, and died Nov. 24, 1679, aged 67 Years, His descendents, to whom he left the best of all Patri- mony, the example of a benevolant, industrius and Christian Life, erect this stone to his memo- ry 170 years after his decease.
His Piety, His Constancy in virtue and in truth, These on tradition's tongue shall live; these shall From sire to son be handed down To latest time. |
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Inventory of the Estate of Deacon Nicholas Clapp £ s. d. His wearing apparel . . . . . . 4 04 3 A Bed and bedding that belongs to it . . . . 7 11 6 A Saddle, pillion and pillion colth, pad and some small things. 2 13 0 Bed and Bedding in East Chamber. . . . . 2 13 6 A great chest, sheeps Wool and other small things . . 4 11 3 Bed and Bedding in the West chamber . . . . 4 06 6 Sheets, pilllow beers and other linen . . . . 5 15 0 Brass kettle, pans and some small things . . . . 3 04 9 Pewter . . . . . . . . 1 18 0 Books and other small things . . . . . 19 6 Iron Pot, Iron kettle and other Iron impliments . . . 1 09 0 Table, hozen and chairs and some other things . . . 3 04 9 Swine . . . . . . . . . 5 12 0 Sheep . . . . . . . . . 4 00 0 A Yoke of Oxen . . . . . . . 8 00 0 Three Cows and three Young Cattle . . . . 12 16 0 Four Horsekinde . . . . . . . 5 00 0 Hay and other stover . . . . . . 10 00 0 Indian Corn, Barley, Oats and Rye . . . . 13 09 0 Upland at the Mouth of the Neck(1) . . . . 15 00 0 The plow land behind the house . . . . . 30 00 0 Seven Acres of Upland at Leeks Hill(2) . . . . 32 00 0 Fourteen Acres of Upland and Pasture at Roxbury Neck(3) . 70 00 0 The Meadow and upland before thedoor . . . 40 00 0 The Meadow at the bottom of the house lot . . . 30 00 0 Nine Acres of Meadow at the mouth of the great Neck . . 80 00 0 Two Acres of Meadow at Leeks Hill . . . . 20 00 0 A piece of Meadow at Pine neck(4) . . . . . 10 00 0 Four Acres of pasture at the great neck . . . . 30 00 0 A Quarter of the tide Mill . . . . . . 25 00 0 The first Division of land in the Woods(5) . . . . 15 00 0 The second Division of land in the Woods . . . 10 00 0 The third Division of land in the Woods . . . . 8 00 0 A piece of land by Goodman Tolmans(6) . . . . 10 00 0 The dwelling house and barn and outhousing and orchard . 80 00 0 A Corsler, Pike and sword, common right beyond blew hills . 2 00 0 That which the widdow brought and now to be prised was as followeth: Bed and Bedding . . . 6 00 0 Linen, 3. 18. 0. pewter, 6d; brass 2. 18. 6. books, 6d; and some other things 1. 15. 6. . 8 13 0 Two Iron post, and andirons and other Iron Ware . . . . 2 09 6 17 03 0 Total . . £629 15 7 The other given in afterward . . . 13 10 0 643 05 7 The estate is indebted . . . . 285 01 3 Leaving 358 04 4 The appraisers were James Humfrey, William Summer, Henry Leadbetter. His two oldest sons, Nathaniel and Ebenezer, were administrators. Nathaniel died in 1707; Ebenezer, in 1712. At that time they had not finished settling the estate, and Noah was appointed in 1716 to complete the settlement. |
Sarah's Parents and both sets of Grandparents and Maternal Great-Grandfather--
I. William Clapp: Born 1565, Sidbury, Devonshire, England; Died 1640/1641, Salcombe Regis, Devon, England, England; Married 11 September 1593, Sidmonth, Devonshire, England; Johana Channon.
Nicholas' Parents--
3. Nicholas Clapp: Born 1575, Sidburry, Devonshire, England; Died 14 March 1631, Venn Ottery, Devonshire, England; Married 1603, Devonshire, Devonshire, England; Elizabeth (Clapp): Born 1579, of Sidbury, Devonshire, England; Died 24 March 1631, Sidbury?, Devonshire, England.
4. Richard Clapp: Born about 1528, of Sidbury, Devonshire, England; Died 25 March 1609, Sidbury, Devonshire, England; Married Sudbury, Devonshire, England; Christian (Clapp): Born about 1538, Sidbury, Devonshire, England; Died 24 Jul 1609, Sidbury, Devonshire, England.
5. Elder William Clapp: Born about 1500, Devonshire, England; Died 20 May 1555, Hartford, Devonshire, England; Married England; Alice (Clapp): Born about 1502, of Sidbury, Devonshire, England; Died 25 May 1555, Hartford, Devonshire, England. (See Clapp)
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1. "The Neck" was the general name for all that part of Dorchester included in the peninsula afterwards and now known as South Boston. The mouth or entrance of it was by the old Causeway road over the low salt marsh which bordered the northern part of the town. The first upland reached in going northward over that road (now called Washington Village), with the salt marsh immediatly north of it, went by the name of Litte Neck, while the Heights beyond and all the rest of South Boston were called Great Neck, the mouth of the latter being the low lands between the two necks.
2. At the junction of the present Dorchester and Third Streets, near Emerson Street, South Boston. Doubtless named for Thomas Lake, who died in Dorchester, October 27, 1678.
3. Probably what was called Black Neck, near Roxbury boundary, and in the extreme northwest part of the town of Dorchester.
4. A part of the town now know as Neponset, in Dorchester.
5. In the town of Stoughton, then part of Dorchester. A depostion of John Bird, of Dorchester, in 1731, he being then in the 90th year of his age, shows that 80 acres of this "land in the woods" fell to the share of Nicholas's son Ebenezer.
6. On the Lower Road, now Adams Street.