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Excerpt from Memoir of David Clapp Nicholas Clapp, the first ancestor of David in this country, and the son of Richard, was from Dorchester, Dorset, England. On the 23d of August, 1636, he signed the Church Covenant of our New England Dorchester, drawn up by Rev. Richard Mather and others. The Clapp family settled, originally, in Salcombe Regis, county of Devon, where Roger, cousin to Nicholas, was born. This place is situated about twelve miles from the city of Exeter, and a little to the eastward of Sidmouth. David was of the sixth generation in descent from Nicholas, through Nathaniel, Jonathan, David and David. Fac-simile autographs of his first, second and fourth ancestors, in this coun...
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