Ancestry of
Pete Seeger

American Folk Singer

Martha Clap

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Pete Seeger — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 93 
  • Father:
  • Supply Clap 
  • Mother:
  • Martha Fowle   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Aug 1738 
  • Birth Location:
  • Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • Dec 1805 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • James Thwing
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Mar 1757 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Samuel Thwing (Ahnentafel No:46 )

• Sources for Martha Clap

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Woburn, Vol. 1, p. 50, Birth record for Martha Clapp.
  • ² 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), 21.
  • ³ 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.
  • ⁴ Thwing, Walter Eliot, Thwing: A Genealogical, Biographical and Historical Account of the Family, Boston: David Clapp and Son, Printers (1883), 34-35.