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2. Captain Clapp John-443750 (Progenitor ) died in 1725/1726.
He is possibly son of Elias C and Susan Gilson qv and if so is possibly born c1649. Sea captain and mariner/merchant. He apparently came from Deptford, London. There are records of the Clapp name about the Deptford area. he arrived in Charleston SC (first settled in 1670) in 1680, his wife and child arrived in 1682. Developed up to three plantations. He and James Torquett of SC are noted as merchants. He is administrator of estate of William Hulton. Movedto New York in 1688, to Flushing in Queens Co. There got his friend in South Carolina, Jonathan Amory, to handle his business in SC. Appointed by governor to be Clerk of House of Reps in 1691, which he was till 1697. He kept a tavern on a corner of Bowery Lane. See a web article by Dr Ellen Knight, Capt.John Clapp, A biography with notes on his families by his descendant, with four pages of footnotes, on a rootsweb website accessed 27-5-2009. Knight belieives that this man has long been confused with Dr MD George Gilson Clapp, born in England, a traveller (acquired an opium-chewing addiction), later in South Carolina, who ended up in West Chester Co., New York. Dr George Gilson Clapp's descendants are given somwhat erroneously in Ebenezer Clapps's Clapp Memorial: Record of the Clapp Family in America. No evidence concerning Dr George Gilson Clapp turns up. His fourth wife was possibly Mrs Ruth Ferris, a widow of Daniel Weed (two Weed children) and then of Peter Ferris. One Gilson Clapp of Sth Carolina was engaged in the salve trade.
John married (1) Wife1 Channell Elizabeth-443756 daughter of Gent Channell Luke-443757 and CNotkown Miss-443758. Elizabeth died in 1682/1683.
John married (2) wife2 Axtell Sebilla-443761 daughter of "Landgrave" Axtell Daniel-443762 and ANotknown Miss-443763. Sebilla died in 1685.
She is dr1. Or, Sebilla Axtell Hulton. See a web article by Dr Ellen Knight, Capt.John Clapp, A biography with notes on his families by his descendant, with four pages of footnotes, on a rootsweb website accessed 27-5-2009.
John and Sebilla had the following children:
John married (3) wife3 Ray Dorothy-443771 daughter of Of Block Island New York Ray Simon-443772 and Thomas Mary-443773 about 1689 in New York.
She had five sons surviving. She has a brother-in-law Samuel Sands. See a web article by Dr Ellen Knight, Capt.John Clapp, A biography with notes on his families by his descendant, withfour pages of foonotes, on a rootsweb website accessed 27-5-2009.
John and Dorothy had the following children:
4 M ii Clapp John-443753 was born in 1690 in Long Island New York. He died in 1730.
See a web article by Dr Ellen Knight, Capt.John Clapp, A biography with notes on his families by his descendant, with four pages of footnotes, on a rootsweb website accessed 27-5-2009.John married Quimby Dorcas-443787 daughter of Quimby Progenitor-443788 and QNotknown Miss-443789.
See a web article by Dr Ellen Knight, Capt.John Clapp, A biography with notes on his families by his descendant, withfour pages of foonotes, on a rootsweb website accessed 27-5-2009.5 M iii Clapp Silas-443786. + 6 M iv Clapp Elias-443790 died about 1783. 7 M v Clapp Benjamin-443791 died in 1727.
See a web article by Dr Ellen Knight, Capt.John Clapp, A biography with notes on his families by his descendant, with four pages of footnotes, on a rootsweb website accessed 27-5-2009.8 M vi Clapp Cornbury-443795 was born about 1704.
He was presumably named for the recent arrival in New York of new Governor Lord Cornbury. Edward Hyde (1661-) the earl3 of Clarendon, who found a New York reputation as a spendthrift, a bigot, drunken vain fool and an embezzler.9 M vii Of New Rochelle Clapp Gilson-443796.
See a web article by Dr Ellen Knight, Capt.John Clapp, A biography with notes on his families by his descendant, with four pages of footnotes, on a rootsweb website accessed 27-5-2009.
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