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CLAPP: Norton, Bristol, Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850

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Verbatim extracts of all CLAP and CLAPP births, marriages, and deaths from Vital Records of Norton, Massachusetts, to the year 1850.

Surnames Appearing Here

BATES, BRAMAN, BURT, CLAP, CLAPP, COBB, COPLAND, DAY, DEAN, EDDY, FARNUM, FIELD, GODFREY, GUSHEY, HODGES, INGLEY, KING, LEONARD, LINCOLN, LOTHROP, MAKEPEACE, PADDLEFORD, PERRY, POMROY, PRATT, RIPLEY, ROBBINSON, SHEPARD, SMITH, SPEAR, TROW, WETHEREL, WETHERELL, WILBER, WILBUR, WILD, WILLIAMS, WOOD, WRIGLEY

Notes

My editorial comments appear in italics.

Vital Records of Norton, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, Henry Ernest Woods, ed., New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1906.

The U. S. Internet Genealogical Society Research Library has an online version of the Norton Vital Records.

C.R.1. - church record, First Congregational Parish, Unitarian
C.R.2. - church record, Dissenting Congregational (afterwards Baptist)
C.R.3. - church record, Trinitarian

G.R.1. - gravestone record, First Burial Place
G.R.2. - gravestone record, Norton Common Cemetery
G.R.3. - gravestone record, Center Cemetery
G.R.4. - gravestone record, Timothy Plain Cemetery
G.R.5. - gravestone record, Babbit, or Cobb, Cemetery
G.R.6. - gravestone record, Winneconnet Second Cemetery
G.R.7. - gravestone record, Winneconnet New Cemetery
G.R.8. - gravestone record, Woodward-Willis Cemetery
G.R.9. - gravestone record, Senaca Lincoln Family Burying Ground
G.R.10. - gravestone record, Crane Cemetery
G.R.11. - gravestone record, Abraham White Cemetery
G.R.12. - gravestone record, Eddy-Lincoln Cemetery
G.R.13. - gravestone record, Crane-Newcomb Burial Place
G.R.14. - gravestone record, John Eddy Burial Place
G.R.15. - gravestone record, Hall Cemetery
G.R.16. - gravestone record, White Cemetery
G.R.17. - gravestone record, Josiah Newcomb Cemetery
G.R.18. - gravestone record, Briggs Cemetery
G.R.19. - gravestone record, George Codding Burial Place
G.R.20. - gravestone record, Dyer Burial Place
G.R.21. - gravestone record, Lincoln Burial Place, Gaffney Farm

History of this Document

25 April 2003, revision 1.
Initial publication.
05 August 2003, revision 2.
Corrected omission of Thomas K. Clapp's birth, year of Bethiah Clap's death.
25 February 2007, revision 3.
Routine maintenance.

CLAPP Births

Surname, Forename Father Mother Date Born Notes
CLAP, Abiel, ch. Samuel Bethiah Feb. 7, 1728
CLAP, Abiel, ch. Elezar [Eleazer, C.R.1.] w. Apr. 16, 1785
CLAP, Abijah, ch. Abiel Bath[sh]aeba Feb. 26, 1759
CLAP, Appolas, ch. Noah Olive Feb. 27, 1787
CLAP, Benjamin, ch. Eleazer
May 23, 1790 bp. C.R.1.
CLAP, Betsey, ch. David Hannah Sept. 11, 1781
CLAP, Constant, ch. Noah Olive Nov. 11, 1784
CLAP, David, ch. Samuel Elizabe[th] Jan. 25, 1711-12
CLAP, David, ch. Jonathan Sarah Aug. 30, 1744
CLAP, David, ch. David Hannah Aug. 28, 1777
CLAP, Elias, ch. Noah Olive Jan. 19, 1782
CLAP, [E]liazer, ch. Samuel Bethiah Feb. 3, 1731
CLAP, Elizabeth, ch. Samuel Elizabe[th] Mar. 20, ---- rec. after ch. b. Oct. 1, 1714
CLAP, Elizabeth 2d, ch. Samuel [Sam[ue]ll, C.R.1.] Elizabe[th] Mar. 6, 1719-20
CLAP, Elizabeth, ch. Samuel Mary July 1, 1741
CLAP, Fobes, ch. Elezar [Eleazer, C.R.1.] w. Apr. 6, 1787
CLAP, George, ch. Capt. David Hannah Mar. 15, 1789
CLAP, Hannah, ch. Samuel Mary Aug. 22, 1743
CLAP, Hannah, ch. David Hannah May 7, 1775
CLAP, Ichabod, ch. Samuel Jr. Lydia Aug. 27, 1773 Clapp, C.R.1.
CLAP, Jemima, ch. Jonathan Sarah Nov. 8, 1742
CLAP, John, ch. Samuel Jr. Anne Apr. 3, 1758
CLAP, John, ch. Capt. David Hannah Nov. 5, 1793
CLAP, Jonathan, ch. Samuel Elizabe[th] Oct. 1, 1714
CLAP, Jonathan (Cla[p]), s. Sam[ue]ll Elizabeth Aug. 9, 1719 bp. C.R.1.
CLAP, Jonathan, ch. Jonathan Sarah Jan. 21, 1746
CLAP, Jonathan, ch. David Hannah Aug. 14, 1768
CLAP, Jonathan, ch. David
Aug. 13, 1775 bp. C.R.1.
CLAP, Jona[tha]n, s. Jona[tha]n Sarah ----, [1847] G.R.4.
CLAP, Marcy, ch. Samuel Mary May 27, 1738
CLAP, Margaret, ch. David
Aug. 13, 1775 bp. C.R.1.
CLAP, Margret, ch. David Hannah Dec. 16, 1772
CLAP, Mercy (see Marcy)



CLAP, Nancy, ch. Noah Olive Feb. 9, 1796
CLAP, Noah, ch. Samuel Mary Apr. 5, 1748
CLAP, Oliver Samuel Jr. Lydia Mar. 22, 1771
CLAP, Otes, ch. Elkanah Abigail Feb. 11, 1769
CLAP, Phebe, ch. Jonathan Sarah Nov. 7, 1740
CLAP, Phebe, ch. Capt. David Hannah Aug. 22, 1786
CLAP, Polley, ch. Noah Olive May 14, 1777
CLAP, Rachel, ch. Jonathan Sarah Feb. 16, 1748
CLAP, Reuel, ch. Noah Olive Apr. 4, 1792
CLAP, Salley, ch. Noah Olive Aug. 17, 1789
CLAP, Salmon, ch. Noah Olive Jan. 17, 1780
CLAP, Samuel Samuel Elizabe[th] June 6, 1710
CLAP, Samuel Samuel Mary Aug. 16, 1745
CLAP, Samuel Samuel Jr. Lydia May 17, 1769
CLAP, Samuel Samuel Jr.
June 3, 1770 bp. C.R.1.
CLAP, Sam[ue]ll (Cla[p]) Sam[ue]ll Elizabeth Aug. 9, 1719 bp. C.R.1.
CLAP, Sarah, ch. Samuel Mary Aug. 31, 1736
CLAP, Sarah, ch. Jonathan Sarah May 10, 1739
CLAP, Sarah, ch. David Hannah July 8, 1770
CLAP, Sarah, ch. David
Aug. 13, 1775 bp. C.R.1.
CLAP, Silas, ch. David Hannah Jan. 12, 178 [sic] [bp. July 4. 1784, C.R.1.]
CLAP, Tiley, ch. David Hannah Apr. 1, 1779
CLAPP, Artemus, ch. Jonathan 2d Peggy Aug. 31, 1809
CLAPP, Barnum, ch. Jonathan 2d Peggy Mar. 23, 1814
CLAPP, Beccah [dup. Clap], ch. Jonathan 2d Peggy June 24, 1789
CLAPP, Betsey Lincoln, ch. George w. Nov. 2, 1826
CLAPP, David, ch. Jonathan 2d Peggy June 7, 1791
CLAPP, David, ch. Jonathan 2d Peggy Apr. 30, 1807
CLAPP, David Williams, ch. George w. July 11, 1834
CLAPP, Delight, ch. Jonathan 2d Peggy Dec. 25, 1802
CLAPP, Else, ch. Jonathan 2d Peggy May 17, 1797
CLAPP, Emuline, ch. Jonathan 2d Peggy Oct. 4, 1811
CLAPP, Eustis King, ch. George w. Oct. 28, 1824
CLAPP, Fanny, ch. Jonathan 2d Peggy Apr. 24, 1805
CLAPP, George Tyler, ch. George w. Apr. 13, 1809
CLAPP, Hannah, ch.s Jonathan 2d Peggy Nov. 12, 1799
CLAPP, Hannah Brigham, ch. George w. June 4, 1829
CLAPP, James Carver Jonathan 2d Peggy June 14, 1792
CLAPP, Lavina Esther, ch. George w. Sept. 30, 1813
CLAPP, Lucinda [----], w. Oliver

Oct. 8, 1776 G.R.3.
CLAPP, Martha, w. Horace B. Wetherell, d. Ollis Anna Jan. 1, 1816 G.R.2
CLAPP, Perez Christopher, ch. George w. Mar. 18, 1822
CLAPP, Silas, ch. Jonathan 2d Peggy Oct. 28, 1794
CLAPP, Silas Varnum, ch. George w. June 18, 1820
CLAPP, Thomas, ch. George w. Feb. 26, 1816
CLAPP, Thomas Kilborn, ch. George w. Aug. 18, 1818

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CLAPP Marriages

Name Name Date Notes
CLAP, Abiel Bath[sh]aeba Pratt [int. Bathsheba Prat] Apr. 6, 1758
CLAP, Annah Jonathan Ingley of Taunton Mar. 17, 1774 int.
CLAP, David Hannah King Aug. 18, 1767
CLAP, Eleazer Silvey Gushey of Raynham Mar. 7, 1784 int.
CLAP, Elisabeth David Copland of Milton Nov. 29, 1759
CLAP, Elisabeth of Middleborough John Eddy June 29, 1763 int.
CLAP, Elizabeth Eliphelet Hodges Jan. 29, 1735-6 int. not recorded
CLAP, Jemima Abiel Dean Jr. of Raynham Aug. 13, 1767 int.
CLAP, John Polly Makepeace May 10, 1785
CLAP, Jonathan Jerusha Day of Wrentham Sept. 29, 1759 int.
CLAP, Lydia Lt. [int. omits Lt.] Jacob Shepard [int. Sheepard] Jan. 11, 1781
CLAP, Mary Israel Trow Jan. 1, 1761
CLAP, Noah Olive Shepard Apr. 16, 1776
CLAP, Phebe John Robbinson May 28, 1761
CLAP, Rachel Richard Field of Taunton June 24, 1770
CLAP, Rachell of Siteuate George Leonard Sept. 8, 1721 int.
CLAP, Rufus Sybal [int. Sibbel] Hodges Nov. 12, 1782
CLAP, Samuel Jr. Anne Wild Apr. 21, 1757
CLAP, Samuel Jr. Lydia Wild Aug. 13, 1768 int.
CLAP, Sarah 2d Pelegg Paddleford of Taunton July 3, 1756 int.
CLAP, Sarah James Godfrey 2d July 14, 1787 int.
CLAP, Silence John Wild [int. Wilds] Oct. 25, 1744
CLAP, Silence Daniel Braman Nov. 28, 1774
CLAP, Thomas of Taunton Mrs. Marcy Leonard Sept. 9, 1731 int. not recorded
CLAP, Timothy of Stoughton [int. of Walpole] Rhoda Wetherel Mar. 24, 1762
CLAPP, Anna, wid. Samuel Wrigley Mar. 2, 1820 in Walpole, int. not recorded
CLAPP, Betsy [int. Betsay] Calvin Lothrop of Boston May 14, 1807
CLAPP, Delight of Taunton Timothy Lincoln of Taunton Feb. 6, 1820 int. not recorded
CLAPP, Elias Barsena Wilber Oct. 25, 1812 int.
CLAPP, George of Grafton Melinda Wood Dec. 31, 1829
CLAPP, Hannah [int. Clap 2d] Dr. Levit [int. Levet] Bates
[int. May 6, 1797]
CLAPP, Hannah John Williams Jr. of Easton Aug. 3, 1822 int.
CLAPP, Ichabod Betsay Smith of Middleborough Mar. 13, 1803 int.
CLAPP, James C. Orilla Field of Taunton Sept. 12, 1813 int.
CLAPP, James C. Mary Farnum of Hamden, Conn. Oct. 9, 1831 int.
CLAPP, James C. Prudence Wilbur May 9, 1841 in Rehoboth
CLAPP, Jonathan 2d [dup. and int. Clap] Peggy Wood Aug. 14, 1788
CLAPP, Jonathan Mrs. Lydia Field 2d of Mansfield Aug. 9, 1825
CLAPP, Lavina E. of Easton Gilford Burt of Easton Oct. 3, 1837 int. not recorded
CLAPP, Louisa of Petersham Timothy Smith May 17, 1828 int.
CLAPP, Margeret [int. Margret Clap] Williams Field [int. Field] of Mansfield June 23, 1795
CLAPP, Martha Horace B. Wetherell July 13, 1844 int.
CLAPP, Nancy Thomas Williams Jr. of Easton [int. Eastown] Oct. 1, 1820
CLAPP, Ollis of Walpole Anna Smith 2d Dec. 27, 1814
CLAPP, Phebe Stillman Cobb of Mansfield May 14, 1807
CLAPP, Sally Elijah Spear of Canton [int. Conton] Mar. 31, 1812
CLAPP, Samuel Mary Pomroy of Stoughton Nov. 10, 1733 in Stoughton, int. not recorded
CLAPP, Silas V. of Easton Fidelia W. Ripley of Easton Jan. 1, 1839 int. not recorded
CLAPP, Tiley Nathan Perry of Bridgwater Sept. 21, 1806 int.

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CLAPP Deaths

Name Relationship Date Age Notes
CLAP, Bethiah wid. Samuel Oct. 12, 1778 in 83d y. G.R.4.
CLAP, David ch. David & Hannah Mar. 6, 1778
[Clapp, s. Capt. David & Hannah, a. 6 m 9 d., G.R.4.]
CLAP, David ch. Samuel & Elizabe[th] July

CLAP, Elizabeth ch. Samuel & Elizabe[th] Mar. 21

CLAP, Hannah [ch. Samuel & Mary] Sept. 28, 1756

CLAP, Jonathan ch. Jonathan & Sarah Mar. 2, 1756 in 10th y.
CLAP, Mary w. Samuel Nov. 12, 1754

CLAP, Samuel [h. Bethiah] June 13, 1762 in 80th y. G.R.4.
CLAP, Sarah ch. Samuel & Mary Dec. 18, 1736

CLAP, Sarah w. Jonathan Oct. 29, 1756 in 48th y. [in 47th y., G.R.4.]
CLAP, Silas ch. Capt. David & Hannah Feb. 14, 1787
[in 4th y., G.R.4.]
CLAP, Temperance wid. Dea. Stephen of Scituate Dec. 3, 1768 in 91st y. G.R.2.
CLAPP, Beccah ch. Jonathan 2d & Peggy Mar. 8, 1815
[Becca, in 26th y. G.R.3.]
CLAPP, Betsey d. George & Esther June 13, 1849 a. 25 consumption [Betsey L., a. 22 y. 9 m., G.R.4.]
CLAPP, Content
May 25, 1835 in 51st y.
CLAPP, David ch. Jonathan & Peggy June 9, 1791

CLAPP, David, Capt.
Sept. 5, 1823 a. 79
CLAPP, Else d. Jonathan Apr. 29, 1827 a. 30
CLAPP, George
Jan. 26, 1845 a. 46 G.R.3.
CLAPP, Jerusha wid. Jonathan Oct. 3, 1807 a. 93 G.R.4.
CLAPP, Malinda w. George Sept. 29, 1840 a. 36 in Grafton, G.R.3.
CLAPP, Noah, Dea.
Nov. 10, 1820 a. 73 G.R.4.
CLAPP, Olive w. Dea. Noah Feb. 13, 1845 a. 90 G.R.4.
CLAPP, Piggy [sic] w. Jonathan Jan. 30, 1824

CLAPP, Polly
May 4, 1833 in 56th y. G.R.4.
CLAPP, Samuel Jr.
July 28, 1773 in 28th y. G.R.4.
CLAPP, Sarah Elizabeth d. George & Malinda Feb. 3, 1842 a. 3 in Halifax, G.R.3.
CLAPP, Silas ch. Jonathan 2d & Peggy May 2, 1816

CLAPP, Thomas K.
June 14, 1849 a. 30 y. 10 m. G.R.4.

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