Ancestry of
Pete Seeger

American Folk Singer

Samuel Clap Jr.

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Pete Seeger — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 372 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Clap 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Leeds   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Aug 1668 
  • Birth Location:
  • Dorchester (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 30 Jan 1723/1724 
  • Death Location:
  • Dorchester (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Dorchester North Burying Ground, Dorchester (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Paul
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Apr 1698 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Dorchester (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Supply Clap (Ahnentafel No:186 )

• Sources for Samuel Clap Jr.

  • ¹ Colonial Collegians, 1642-1774, Harvard, p. 3761, Biography for son Supply Clap.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/15/2015).
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dorchester, Vol. 1, p. 57, Birth record for son Supply Clap.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dorchester, Vol. 1, p. 102, Marriage record for Samuell Clap and Mary Paull.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dorchester, Vol. 1, p. 132, Death record for Samuel Clap.
  • ⁶ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1851, Vol. 5, p. 256, Cemetery inscription for Samuel Clap.
  • ⁷ Clapp, Ebenezer, comp., The Clapp Memorial: Record of the Clapp Family in America Containing Sketches of the Original Six Emigrants . . ., Boston: David Clapp and Son, Printers (1876), 11, 16.
  • ⁸ Hurd, D. Hamilton, History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, With Biographica Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, Vol. 1, Philadelphia: J. W. Lewis and Co. (1890), 427.