Ezra Clapp (1640 - 1718)

Born 22 May 1640 in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Abigail (Pond) Clapp — married before 1667 (to 12 Oct 1682) in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts [uncertain]

Husband of Experience (Houghton) Clapp — married 22 May 1684 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 23 Jan 1718 at age 77 in Milton, Suffolk, Massachusetts

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Biography

Birth

Ezra Clapp was born 22 May 1640 to Edward Clapp and "Prudence Clapp". The birth was recorded in Boston, Massachusetts.^[1]

Marriage

Ezra is siad to have married first Abigail Pond in 1667 in Dorchester, Massachusetts. They had 7 children.

1. Mary Clapp 1667-1707
2. Abigail Clapp 1670-1767
3. Edward Clapp 1672-1690
4. Ezra Clapp 1673-1691
5. Elizabeth Clapp1677-1716
6. Judith Clapp 1679-1729
7. Sarah Clapp 1680-1733

Ezra married second Experience Houghton in 1684 in Dorchester, Massachusetts. They had 7 children.

1. William Clapp 1685-Unknown
2. Jane Clapp 1685-1743
3. Ezra Clapp 1690-1756
4. Nehemiah Clapp 1695-1743
5. Susanna Clapp1697-1776
6. Ebenezer Clapp 1697-1730
7. Hester Clapp 1699-Unknown

Edward Clapp owned land in Milton which at his decease descended to his eldest son, Ezra...Ezra Clapp removed to Milton as early as 1667 and married Abigail Pond of this town. He lived in the Pond house which was next to the house of Rev. Peter Thacher...About 1712 he erected a corn-mill on the Neponset at Mattapan. ^[2]

Ezra passed away on 23 Jan 1717/8 in Milton, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Ezra's place of burial is unknown, but he does have a memorial with links to family members.^[3][4]

Footnotes:

Source Citations:

Sources

1. ↑ Early Records of Boston. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Volume 5. Page 98. (https://archive.org/details/newenglandhistor005wate/page/98/mode/2up)
2. ↑ Teele, Albert Kendall, (1823-1901) ed. "The History of Milton, Mass., 1640-1887" pub. 1887; pg. 560. E-book available in the public domain at: https://archive.org/details/historyofmiltonm00teel_0/page/n655/mode/1up/search/Jerusha?q=early+Milton%2C+Massachusetts
3. ↑ Ezra Clapp memorial at Find A Grave.
4. ↑ 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 images provided by FamilySearch.org) Case 3933: Inventory "Ezra Clapp of Milton...who deceased 23 of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seaven hundred seventeen or eighteen."

• Find A Grave: Memorial #63436206

• Clapp, Ebenezer. The Clapp Memorial: Record of the Clapp Family in America (David Clapp & Son, 1876) - Ezra Clapp - Page 94-98

• Massachusetts Applications of Freemen, 1630-1691

• Massachusetts Town and Vital Records

• New England, the Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins

• North America Family Histories 1500-2000

• The History of Milton, Massachusetts

• New England Historical and Genealogical Register

• US New England Marriages Prior to 1700

• American Genealogical Biographical Index

• American Marriages Before 1699

• History of the Town of Dorchester, Massachusetts

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Clapp-122 created through the import of Tom.ged on Jun 1, 2011 by Tom Elliott.
• Thank you to Tom Elliott and Paula Johnson for creating Clapp-693 on 31 Jul 13.