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Samuel Pierpont Langley

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Roger Clap

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Samuel Pierpont Langley — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 212 
  • Father:
  • William Clap 
  • Mother:
  • Joan Channon   
  • Birth Date:
  • 2 Apr 1609 
  • Birth Location:
  • Salcombe Regis, Devonshire, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 2 Feb 1690/1691 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Kings Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Joanna Ford
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Nov 1633 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Dorchester (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts  
  • Children:
  
  

  Samuel Clap (Ahnentafel No:106 )

  William Clap

  Elizabeth Clap

  Experience Clap

  Waitstill Clap

  Preserved Clap

  Experience Clap

  Hopestill Clap

  Wait Clap

  Thanks Clap

  Desire Clap

  Thomas Clap

  Unite Clap

  Supply Clap

• Sources for Roger Clap

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, George Parkhurst (m.1611), p. 3.
  • ² England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, Baptism record for Roger Clap.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/08/2015).
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1904, Vol. 58, p. 23.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 364-370, 689.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. II, C-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2001), 79.
  • ⁷ Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Cuneo Press (1931), Vol. 2, p. 790.
  • ⁸ Gray, George Arthur, The Descendants of George Holmes of Roxbury, 1594-1908, Boston: Press of David Clapp and Son (1908), 4.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 38, 40, 43, 50.