The Clapp Memorial: Record of the Clapp Family in America : Containing Sketches of the Original Six Emigrants, and a Genealogy of Their Descendants Bearing the Name : with a Supplement and the Proceedings at Two Family MeetingsDavid Clapp & Son, 1876 - 516 pages |
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Abigail acres afterwards aged April April 12 April 29 Benjamin bequeath unto Blake born brother Capen Capt Captain Castle Catharine Charles child Children Church Clap Clapp Family Court daughter David Deacon death decease descendants died dollars Dorchester Easthampton Ebenezer Clapp Edward Elisha Eliza Elizabeth England Eunice Ezra father give and bequeath Hannah Harriet Harvard College Henry Hopestill Humphreys James James Blake Jane John Clapp Jonathan Joseph Joshua July July 15 July 28 June June 18 land Lucy Lydia March March 20 married Martha Mary Mass memory Milton Nathaniel Nicholas Noah Northampton Otis Phebe Preserved probably removed resided Richard Richard Clapp Richard Mather Roger Clapp Roxbury Samuel Sarah Scituate second wife Sept settled sister South Boston Stephen Stoughton Street Thomas Clapp town Walpole widow William Yale College York young
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Page 14 - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents passed into the skies.
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Page 184 - Executors nothing doubting but at the general Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life I give...
Page 148 - While he was yet speaking there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house : and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead, and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Page 164 - When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.