William
Lewis
(Lewis)
Clapp
Born about in Guilford County, North Carolina, United States of America
Ancestors 
Son of Ludwig Lewis Clapp
and Margaret Ann (Loy) Clapp
Brother of
Mary Elizabeth (Clapp) Turnbow, Joel Clapp, Elizabeth Catherine (Clapp) Grammer [half] and Benjamin Lynn Clapp
Husband of
Mary Mandy (Cotton) Clapp
— married
9 Dec 1813 (to before 24 Dec 1838) in Madison county, Alabama
Descendants 
Father of
Margaret Clapp, Barton Stone Clapp Sr., Sarah (Clapp) Boadley, Tillman R. Clapp, Lewis P. Clapp and William King Clapp
Died before
before about age 46
in Madison County, Alabama, United States of America
Profile last modified
| Created 24 Jul 2011
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Biography
Sources
- U.S. General Land Office Land Patent dated May 1831. Legal description: North east quarter of Section One in Township Seven of Range three east, in the district of lands subject to sale at Huntsville, Alabama containing One hundred sixty one acres, and fifty-hundredths of an acre. Land sold to William Clapp.
- U.S. General Land Office Survey dated 1822, showing location of Honeycomb Creek, and section one in extreme northeast corner of map, shaded in yellow. See attached illustration, Surveyor's Plat Honey Comb Valley.
- Steve Clapp's Genealogy, Descendants of Thomas Clapp
- Ancestors of William Lee CLAPP
- Geneology records (1935-1972) of Ethel Perry Moore, 1902-1975.
- Alabama Records, Vol 65, Marshall county compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud
- Correspondence with Rosemarie Langley.
- The Heritage of Marshall County, Alabama (2000), p. 80, 228 (SOURCE: Rosemarie Langley (FamilySearch.org))
- Letter from Mrs. M. P. Bettis, Montgomery, Alabama, June 26, 1956.
- Letter written to Ethel Perry Moore dated November 17, 1958, by Nina Olsen, Granddaughter of Benjamin Lynn Clapp.
Acknowledgements
- WikiTree profile Clapp-278 created through the import of most.recent.ged on Jul 23, 2011 by Norman Perry. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Norman and others.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lewis by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Lewis:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lewis by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Lewis:
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~3.12%
Norman Perry
:
23andMe, GEDmatch A054758 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A054758 [compare], Ancestry member perryna
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch A054758 [compare], FTDNA kit #426116
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~0.78%
Marilyn (Tweedy) Kuczynski :
AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
Rebekah (Gaddy) Mandina :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A036228 [compare], Ancestry member mandina86
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~0.39%
Grant (Cook) Van Vranken :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member GVanVranken
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T855835 [compare], FTDNA kit #31711
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