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Lemuel Clapp

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Lemuel Clapp

Birth
Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
11 Jun 1866 (aged 82)
Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
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The Clapp Memorial, Record of the Clapp Family in America : Containing Sketches of the Original Six Emigrants, and a Genealogy of Their Descendants Bearing the Name: with a Supplement and the Proceedings at Two Family Meetings, by Ebenezer Clapp, pg 255; print, Boston, MA · 1876 (Google Books): 86. EBENEZER (Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Nathaniel, Nicholas), oldest son of Ebenezer and Hannah (Pierce) Clapp, was born in Dorchester, April 23, 1732; died Jan. 29, 1802. He married first, Dec. 11, 1755, Elizabeth, daughter of Deacon Richard, and granddaughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth Hall. She died Feb. 17, 1779, and he married second, May 13, 1779, Mary, daughter of Enoch Glover of Dorchester. In consequence of the death of her son, Eleazer, by suicide, in a fit of derangement, her feelings were so wrought upon to completely unnerve and bewilder her, and in five days after her son's death, Sept. 2, 1817, she also committed suicide... Children by Ebenzer and his second wife, Mary (Glover) Clapp: Lemuel, born June 2, 1784; d. June 11, 1866, aged 82 years. He was never married; lived with his sister, Mrs. Howe, and improved the land inherited from his father. He left directions before his death, for the erection of a marble monument to the memory of his father, Col. Ebenezer Clapp, which has since been erected at an expense of upwards of $500, in the old Dorchester burying-ground, and is an elegant and appropriate structure.

Annual Report of the Cemetery Department of the City of Boston for the Fiscal Year 1903-1904, First Burying Place in Dorchester, by the Boston City Cemetery Division, pg 253 Burials from Jan. 1, 1850 to May 1, 1905; print, Boston, MA ∙ 1904 (Google Books): 1866. June 11. Lemuel Clapp; 82 yrs.
The Clapp Memorial, Record of the Clapp Family in America : Containing Sketches of the Original Six Emigrants, and a Genealogy of Their Descendants Bearing the Name: with a Supplement and the Proceedings at Two Family Meetings, by Ebenezer Clapp, pg 255; print, Boston, MA · 1876 (Google Books): 86. EBENEZER (Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Nathaniel, Nicholas), oldest son of Ebenezer and Hannah (Pierce) Clapp, was born in Dorchester, April 23, 1732; died Jan. 29, 1802. He married first, Dec. 11, 1755, Elizabeth, daughter of Deacon Richard, and granddaughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth Hall. She died Feb. 17, 1779, and he married second, May 13, 1779, Mary, daughter of Enoch Glover of Dorchester. In consequence of the death of her son, Eleazer, by suicide, in a fit of derangement, her feelings were so wrought upon to completely unnerve and bewilder her, and in five days after her son's death, Sept. 2, 1817, she also committed suicide... Children by Ebenzer and his second wife, Mary (Glover) Clapp: Lemuel, born June 2, 1784; d. June 11, 1866, aged 82 years. He was never married; lived with his sister, Mrs. Howe, and improved the land inherited from his father. He left directions before his death, for the erection of a marble monument to the memory of his father, Col. Ebenezer Clapp, which has since been erected at an expense of upwards of $500, in the old Dorchester burying-ground, and is an elegant and appropriate structure.

Annual Report of the Cemetery Department of the City of Boston for the Fiscal Year 1903-1904, First Burying Place in Dorchester, by the Boston City Cemetery Division, pg 253 Burials from Jan. 1, 1850 to May 1, 1905; print, Boston, MA ∙ 1904 (Google Books): 1866. June 11. Lemuel Clapp; 82 yrs.


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