Clapp, John

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptised: 1701, Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA

Stephen married Gorham, Temperance on 24 Dec 1696 in Barnstable, Barnstable Co., MA. Temperance (daughter of Gorham, Colonel John Jr. and Otis, Mary) was born on 02 Aug 1678 in Barnstable, Barnstable Co., MA; died after 1756 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Otis, Mary on 24 Feb 1675 in Barnstable, Barnstable Co., MA. Mary was born on 14 Jan 1653; died on 01 Apr 1733 in Barnstable, Barnstable Co., MA; was buried . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Pennsylvania Political, Governmental, Military and Civil Biographical Volume 2 - "Captain John Gorham, son of John Gorham of Marshfield, Massachusetts, was born probably in Huntingdonshire, England, about 1622, and was buried at Swansea, Massachusetts, February 5, 1675-76. His approximate birthdate is fixed by a deposition: "John Gorun seni(or): aged 53 years of therabouts Testifyeth...Dated this 4th: 16(74-75)."
He was problably the John Gorum who stood propounded to the Plymouth Court, June 7, 1648, to take up his freedom and who on June 4, 1650, was admitted a freeman.
A deed dated at New Plymouth, March 8, 1648-49, from Mr. William Bradford, Governor, to Mr. John Howland, of Plymouth conveyed "land lying within the limits of Marshfield Commonly called the great yland with all the marsh meadow lyeing before the sd yland . . . thirteen acars . . ." "And I the said john howland seni . . . for . . . the sum of twenty-five pound sterling haue . . . Sould vnto my soninlaw John Gorum the one halfe of the aforsaid yland and marsh meadow . . . "
Captain John Gorham married, in 1643, Desire Howland. Children (first born in Plymouth, next four in Marshfield, next one in Yormouth, last five in Barnstable, Massachusetts): I. Desire, married John Hawes. 2. Temperance, married (first) Edward Sturgis, Jr.; (second) Thomas Baxter. 3. Elizabeth, married John Hallett. 4. James, married Hannah Huckins 5. John, married Mary Otis. 6. Joseph, married Sarah Sturgis. 7. Jabez, married Mrs. Hannah (Sturgis) Gray. 8. Mercy, married George Denison. 9. Lydia, married Hon. Colonel John Thatcher. 10. Hannah, married Joseph Wheelding. II. Shubel, of whom further.
("The Mayflower Descendents," Vol. V, pp 28, 172-80. "New England Historical and Genealogical Register," Vol. X, p 293; Vol, LII, pp. 357, 358; Vol. LXXXII, p 426. "New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," Vol. XXVIII, pp. 133-36. James Savage: " A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Deeds, Etc.," Vol. I 1620-51, pp. 164-65.)"

John married Howland, Desire on 06 Nov 1644 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA. Desire (daughter of Howland, John and Tilley, Elizabeth) was born on 13 Oct 1625 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA; died on 13 Oct 1683 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]