William CLAPP

                   The Clapp Memorial 0f the Clapp Family in America by Ebenezer Clapp, pub.  1876 Boston;  The Mary and John by Kuhns, many pages:  Roger and his wife Joanna were both passengers in the "Mary and John". He joined in the Church-Colony organized at Plymouth, England in March 1619 and arrived at Nantucket, Massachusetts 30 May 1630. He settled at Dorchester. He was a proprietor , served in town offices, freeman 1634, Captain of the Militia. He was granted land in 1633 in Dorchester. Lieutenant in the Ancient and Honorable Artilery Company in 1655. Deputy from Dorchester to the General Court 1647-1671. Appointed commander of the Castle 1666. He was of the ultra-puritan school, and was intolerant of the attempted by the Antinom's and Quakers. He resigned his post at the Castle, upon the dissolution of the firsr charter in 1686, unwilling to lend his cooperation to  the tyrannical schemes of Governor Andros. He moved to Boston, where he died.

DEATH: Another record source has date as 1 Feb 1690 at Bridgeport, Dorset, England (82 years old);
BURIAL: Stone Chapel, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts;