Ebenezer Clapp (1705 - 1752)

Born 4 Oct 1705 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Pierce) Clapp — married 21 Feb 1727 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 10 Jan 1752 at age 46 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Ebenezer was born in 1705. ^[1]

He was the son of Ebenezer Clapp and Hannah Clapp.

Ebenezer married Hannah Pierce 21 Feb 1727 in Dorchester, Massachusetts^[2]

Ebenezer was a tanner and a farmer

Their Children

1. Abigail Clapp 1728–1809 m) Henry Humphreys
2. Ann Clapp 1731–1812 m) Noah Clap
3. Ebenezer Clapp 1732–1802
4. Daniel Clap 1734–1734
5. Lemuel Clapp 1735–1819
6. Hannah Clapp 1736–1804 m) Timothy Tileston
7. John Clap 1738–1739
8. Elizabeth Clap 1739–1741
9. Elizabeth Clapp 1741–1841
10. Elisha Clapp 1743–1775 m) Sarah Bird
11. William Clapp 1745–1818 m) Sarah Tileston

He passed away in 1752 at the age of 46 and he is buried in Dorchester North Burying Ground located in Dorchester, Massachusetts. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Birth Record
2. ↑ Clapp Pierce Marriage Record
3. ↑ Memorial

• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZDC-19N : 15 January 2020), Ebenezer Clap, 1705.

• "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC4C-NZG : 24 January 2020), Ebenezer Clap, 1727.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 06 April 2020), memorial page for Ebenezer Clap (4 Oct 1705–10 Jan 1752), Find A Grave: Memorial #67344452, citing Dorchester North Burying Ground, Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Peggy Ryals (contributor 46544336) .

• Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017-2019. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org) Case 9440: Division

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 02 April 2020, 13:52), entry for Ebenezer Clapp(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LCD7-B4C); contributed by various users.

See also:

• The Dorchester Atheneum website, http://www.dorchesteratheneum.org/page.php?id=853

• The Clapp memorial. Record of the Clapp family in America, containing sketches of the original six emigrants, and a genealogy of their descendants bearing the name. With a supplement by Clapp, Ebenezer, 1809-1881, https://archive.org/details/clappmemorialrec00clap/page/n265/mode/2up/search/hannah+pierce