Jane (Clap) Pope migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm
Biography
Note Mary Lovering Holman (and Winifred Lovering Holman), Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his wife Frances Helen Miller, 2 volumes (n.p. 1948, 1951) Vol 1 p 278 says she *probably* married Hercules Searle. But Robert Charles Anderson Great Migration Series 2 Vol 1 p 21 says she may have been wife of John Alderman. Quite possibly Jane Clapp daughter of Nicholas Clapp of Sidbury Devon; See the will of John Alderman - he left much of his estate to the Clapp family.[1]
Death
12 Jan 1662/3 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Jane Pope left a will where she left most of her estate to her daughter, Patience Blake and to Patience's children.[2]
Sources
↑ Mary Lovering Holman (and Winifred Lovering Holman), Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his wife Frances Helen Miller, 2 volumes (n.p. 1948, 1951) 1:278
"Suffolk Wills" Vital Records from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.) Reference Volume 11 (1857), page 339 via $American Ancestors
Is Jane your ancestor? Please don't go away! Login to collaborate or comment, or contact
the profile manager, or ask our community of genealogists a question.
Clap-15 and Clapp-1165 appear to represent the same person because: Probably should be set to Unmerged match until we confirm the data about her. But these two profiles are intended to be the same wife of John Pope.