Deacon
Edward
Clapp
aka Clap
Born about in Salcombe Regis, Devon, England
Ancestors 
Son of William Clapp
and Johana (Channon) Clapp
Brother of
William Clapp [half], Jane (Clapp) Humphrey, John Clapp [half], Roger (Clapp) Clap and Sarah Clapp [half]
Husband of
Prudence Abigail (Clap) Clapp
— married
1626 in England
Husband of
Susanna Cockerill
— married
about 1646 in Massachusetts Bay
Descendants 
Father of
Elizabeth (Clapp) Blake,
Prudence (Clap) Peck,
Ezra Clapp,
Nehemiah Clapp,
Susanna (Clapp) Breck,
William Clapp,
Joseph Clapp and
Esther (Clapp) Strong
Died
at about age 59
in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts
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Biography
Edward Clapp, son of William Clapp and Johana (Channon) Clapp,[1] was born by about 1609 [estimated based on date of marriage]. He was from Salcombe Regis, Devonshire.[2]
He migrated to New England in 1635 on the Hopewell to Dorchester. [2]
He married twice. First he married his first cousin Prudence Clapp daughter of Nicholas Clapp, by about 1634 and secondly he married Susanna Cockerill, by about 1646[2]
Edward and Prudence Clapp were early members of the second church at Dorchester, organized 23 August 1636. Edward was a Deacon of the church.[3]
Edward became a freeman 7 Dec 1636.[4]
"The 8th day of the eleventh month [January] 1664[/5] being Sabbath Day Deacon Edward Clap departed this life & now resteth with the Lord there to keep an eternal Sabbath with God & Christ in heaven, after that he had faithfully served in the office of a deacon for the space of about five or six and twenty years, and being the first church officer of this church that was taken away by death since the first joining together in Covenant which is now 28 years four months and odd days"[3]
Children[2]
- Wife: Prudence Clapp
- Child: Elizabeth Clapp
- Child: Prudence Clapp
- Child: Ezra Clapp
- Wife: Susanna
- Child: Nehemiah Clapp
- Child: Susanna Clapp
- Child: William Clapp
- Child: Joseph Clapp
- Child: Esther
- Child: Abigail
- Child: Joshua
- Child: Jonathan
NOTE: There is more information in the Great Migration Article
Sources
- ↑ Smith, Dean Crawford, and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2000), Part IV: The Ancestry of Linda Anna Powers, 1839-1879 p 114-182 link
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Edward Clap, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (NEHGS, 1999-2011), II:76-81.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Anderson: citing Dorchester Church Records pp. 3, 9
- ↑ Anderson: citing Massachusetts Bay Colony Records Vol 1 p. 372
- Great Migration 1634-1635, C-F. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F, by Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001. p. 76.subscribers$
- Records of the First Church at Dorchester in New England, 1636-1734 (Boston, Mass., George H. Ellis, 141 Franklin Street, 1891) Page 9
- Clapp, Ebenezer. The Clapp Memorial: Record of the Clapp Family in America (David Clapp & Son, 1876) - Edward Clapp - Page 91-94
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ca 1634 Edward first married Prudence Clap, daughter of Nicholas Clap,ca 1575-Mar 1631) & Elizabeth [Clap] (-Mar 1631).Born in England.
Their children include: Elizabeth Clapp (ca 1634-16 Jan 1693/4) Prudence Clapp (28 Dec 1637-) Ezra Clapp (22 May 1640-23 Jan 1717/8)
bef 1646 Edward second married Susanna Cockerill, daughter of William Cockerill. Susanna died on 16 Jun 1688 in Dorchester, MA.14
Their children include: Nehemiah Clap (ca 1646-) Susanna Clap (ca 1648-) William Clap (ca 1651-) Joseph Clap (ca 1654-) Esther Clap (ca 1656-26 Jan 1698) Abigail Clap (Died soon) (27 Apr 1659-8 Jan 1659/60) Joshua Clap (Died soon) (12 May 1661-22 May 1662) Jonathan (Died soon) (23 Mar 1664-30 May 1664)