Increase Clapp

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Pedigree
ChartsAncestors of William Jerome Pierce
Increase Clapp, son of Thomas Clapp and Jane (…), was born at Scituate, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts, say 1647.1,2 He died at Rochester, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts, 13 September 1716.1,2

Increase married, as her 2nd husband, Elizabeth Bursley, daughter of John Bursley and Joanna Hull, at Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts, October 1675.3,4,5

He removed from Scituate to Barnstable where he lived for some years, and then settled in Rochester. In 1710 he bought land there from William Griffith.

His Will: "The Seventh Day of February one thousand seven hundred & fourteen fifteen, I Increase Clap of . . . Rochester . . . Being grown in years & under BodilyWeakness & Infirmity But of Perfect mind & memory . . . doe make . . . my last will. . . . "Item, I give . . . unto my son John Clap . . . All my Estate . . . upon ye condition following . . . he . . . paying to my son Benjamin Clap . . . And he . . . shall keep support maintain & Provide for my son Thomas Clap during the term . . . of his Naturall Life . . . my son John also taking care to keep him honestly imployed in such . . . Imployment as he shall thought to be capable of . . . I . . . appoint my son John Clap . . . sole Executor (Plymouth Co. Probate, 3:449).6

Family

Elizabeth Bursley b. 25 Mar 1649, d. 26 Jan 1706/7
Children
  • John Clapp+2 b. Oct 1676, d. bt 1752 - 1754
  • Charity Clapp2 b. Mar 1677, d. 8 Feb 1697/98
  • Thomas Clapp2 b. Jan 1681, d. Jan 1683
  • Thomas Clapp2 b. Dec 1684, d. 20 Apr 1716
  • Benjamin Clapp2 b. say 1686
This person was last edited on21 Dec 2017

Citations

  1. [S341] Dean Crawford Smith and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1978-1908: Part IV: The Ancestry of Linda Anna Powers, 1839-1879 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2000), 132-140, further cited as Smith and Sanborn, Kempton Ancestry 4.
  2. [S85] Mary Lovering Holman, The Scott Genealogy (Boston, Massachusetts: Harriett Grace Scott, 1919), 224-233, further cited as Holman, Scott Genealogy.
  3. [S85] Holman, Scott Genealogy, 235, 232.
  4. [S2281] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I–III, 3 vols. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 1:280-83 (John Bursley), further cited as Anderson, GMB.
  5. [S1872] Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, 3 vols. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011), 317, further cited as Torrey, New England Marriages (2011).
  6. [S85] Holman, Scott Genealogy, 232.