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(VI) Deacon James (2), eldest child of Henry and Abigail (Clapp) Humphreys, was born June 4. 1753, and died in Dorchester, July 13, 1845. He was a representative to the general court and deacon of the First Con- gregational Church. He was a soldier in the revolution from April 19, 1775, until April 3,
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1778, and was stationed in Boston ; Providence, Rhode Island; Fairfield, Connecticut; White Plains and Tarrytown, New York ; and Morris- town, New Jersey. He was orderly sergeant and then quartermaster's sergeant at Fort In- dependence early in 1778 and performed the duties of adjutant while guarding the conven- tion troops at Cambridge. He built the house at No. 59 Humphreys street, in which his grandson, James Henry Humphreys, is now living, the timber being all grown on the place. He married, October 23. 1777, Elizabeth Capen, born April 29, 1758, died February 23, 1826. They had children, all born in Dor- chester : 1. James, born April 30, 1779, died February 8, 1810. 2. Joseph, April 23, 1781, died unmarried March 7, 1837. 3. Elizabeth, February 22, 1783, married, December 15, 1806, Captain William Clapp, died October 4, 1869. 4. Hannah W., May 13, 1785, married, December 15, 1807, Stephen Clapp, died Octo- ber 18, 1865. 5. Sarah, December 31, 1786, married, October 8, 1816, Charles Seaverns, died September 23, 1825. 6. Abigail, January 24. 1789, married, December 28, 1819, Amos Upham, died December 19, 1878. 7. Lois, June 3, 1791, died June 9, 1795. 8. Barnard, September 1, 1792, died October 13, 1804. 9. Harris, January 12, 1794, died July 28, 1804. 10. Lois, June 25, 1796, died February 28, 1866. II. Mary Ann, March 1I, 1799, died September 3, 1882. 12. Henry, see for- ward.
Elizabeth Capen was a descendant of Ber- nard Capen (1), through Deacon John (2). (3) Barnard (2) Capen, son of Deacon John Capen, was born March 24. 1650, died May 3, 1691. He married, June 2, 1675, Sarah Trott, who died June 2, 1724.
(4) John (2), son of Barnard (2) Capen, was born in 1685 and died April 5, 1733 ; mar- ried, January 5, 1726, Elizabeth Hall, born August 2, 1703, died May 12, 1790.
(5) Barnard (3), son of John (2) Capen, was born in 1729, died April 8, 1796; married Hannah White, born February 1, 1735, died December 9, 1779. Their daughter, Elizabeth Capen, born April 29, 1758, died February 23, 1826; married, October 23, 1777, James Humphreys, of Dorchester. (See Humphreys family herewith).
(VII) Deacon Henry (2), youngest child of Deacon James (2) and Elizabeth (Capen) Humphreys, was born April 8, 1801, and died in Dorchester, April 19, 1896, having lived all his life in the house in which he had been born, which was erected by his father during or just
after the revolution, on the corner of Stough- ton, now Dudley and Humphreys streets. On the opposite corner was the old tan yard. Dea- con Henry remembered the taking down of the old house which joined the one now stand- ing, and which stood in the hollow near Stough- ton street and was connected with the new house by a doorway. After the old house was removed, a brick wall was built on the Dudley street side. The old house was used for years as a storage place for leather. Deacon Henry, at the time of his death, had never slept out- side of his house more than twelve nights dur- ing his entire life of almost a century. He was deacon of the Unitarian church of Dor- chester. It is a notable fact that each genera- tion of this famous old Dorchester family mar- ried natives of Dorchester and decendants of first settlers, with the exception of two, whose wives were daughters of ministers living in adjoining towns. Three of the sons of Dea- con Henry built homes on the homestead. He married (first) December 2, 1830, Sarah Blake, eldest daughter of Richard and Mary ( Blake) Clapp. She was born July 29, 1808, died March 15, 1850. They had children, all born in Dorchester: 1. Sarah Elizabeth, born No- vember 28, 1831, died February 20, 1870; married, March 17, 1858, Curtis Greenwood, born November 2, 1827, died November 10, 1899. 2. James, November 26, 1833, died January 25, 1849. 3. Henry, December 22, 1834, died January 15, 1850. 4. Richard Clapp, June 10, 1836, married (first) March 5. 1863, Sarah E. Beals, born July 19, 1839, died November 4, 1889, (second) June 30, 1892, Susan M. Campbell. 5. Rev. Charles Alfred, see forward. 6. Barnard, December 17. 1839, died June 16, 1841. 7. Martha, Feb- ruary 28, 1841, died February 1, 1842. 8. Mary Blake, February 28, 1841, married, De- cember 30, 1874, Abiel Smith Lewis, born July 15, 1814, died March 2, 1895. 9. Walter, July 4. 1842, died at Cold Harbor and was buried on the field of battle, June 2, 1864. 10. Dexter, September 17, 1843, died February 10, 1879; married, June 24, 1869, Maria Townsend Davis, born December 30, 1843. II. Catharine, March 10, 1845, died November 21, 1845. 12. Anna, April 27, 1846. 13. James Henry, March 6, 1850, married, June 15, 1875, Fran- ces Wilson Lewis, born March 7, 1851. Henry Humphreys married (second) July 14, 1851. Catharine Clapp, born November 26, 1815, a sister of his first wife.
(VIII) Rev. Charles Alfred, fourth son and fifth child of Deacon Henry (2) and Sarah
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Blake (Clapp) Humphreys, was born on the old homestead, April 1, 1838. He was edu- cated in the public schools of his native town, was graduated from the high school in 1856, and from Harvard College in the class of 1860. In his senior year he was an editor of the Harvard Magasine, and was chosen chaplain for class day. He then pursued his profes- sional studies in Harvard Divinity School, from which he was graduated in 1863. July 4, 1863, he was commissioned chaplain of the Second Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment and remained in the service until the close of the civil war. He was taken prisoner by Mosby's Guerillas, July 7, 1864, confined at Lynchburg, Virginia ; Macon, Georgia ; and at Charleston, South Carolina, where for two weeks he was exposed to the bursting shells of the Union batteries, and released at Fort Sumter, Sep- tember 2, 1864, when he again joined his regi- ment and took part in the ten days' raid to Gordonsville under General Torbert in Decem- ber, 1864; in the twenty days' raid to Lynch- burg and around Richmond under General Sheridan in February and March, 1865; and in the battles of White Oak Road, Dinwiddie Court House, Five Forks, Sailor's Creek, and Appomattox Court House, where on the front of the Union line he was spattered with dirt by the last Confederate shell fired in the civil war. He resigned his commission, April 14, 1865, and on June 15, received a call to the Third Congregational Society ( Unitarian) of Springfield, Massachusetts. There he gave much time to the enterprise of building the "Church of the Unity," which was dedicated February 17, 1869. He resigned his position on account of failing health (induced by mala- ria contracted during the civil war) January 10, 1872. After a year's rest he accepted a call to Framingham, Massachusetts, Septem- ber 23, 1873, remaining there for a period of eighteen years as minister of the First Parish. He accepted a call from the Church of the Unity of Randolph, Massachusetts, April 30, 1893. and officiated as its minister until August 1, 1899, when failing health caused his perma- nent retirement from the ministry, and he came to Dorchester to dwell on the spot where his ancestors had lived for seven generations. Mr. Humphreys is a member of the Massachusetts Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. One of the earliest monuments to the Union soldiers who died in the civil war was erected on Meeting House Hill in Dorchester his native town, and he delivered the oration at its dedi-
cation. September 17, 1867. He married, April 15, 1868, Kate Jones Mattoon, daughter of Charles and Lucia Anna Mattoon, the former a judge of probate in Greenfield, Massachu- setts. Mrs. Humphreys was born August 13, 1845, died January 15, 1879. They had chil- dren : I. Charles Mattoon, born in Springfield, Massachusetts, March 23, 1869, died Septem- ber 2, 1869. 2. Sarah Blake, Springfield, Sep- tember 17, 1870, married, June 2, 1898, Chester Corey and is now living in Chicago, Illinois ; they have one child, Catharine Elizabeth, born in Newton, Massachusetts, March 7, 1901. 3. Catharine Clapp, Boston, Massachusetts, Aug- ust 1, 1873, married, June 4, 1900, Edmund Drinan Barry, and now lives in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania ; they have one child, Charles Humphreys, born in Chicago, Illinois, March 4, 1904. 4. Elizabeth, Framingham, July 23, 1875, died May 25, 1877.
BLAKE William Blake, immigrant ances- tor, was baptized at Pitminster, England, July 10, 1594. His father was Giles Blake, of Pitminster. Will- iam Blake married in England, September 23, 1617, Agnes Band, widow. Some recent in- vestigations suggest that she may have been the daughter of Hugh Thorne, of Pitminster, baptized January 12, 1594, and widow of Richard Band. In the same parish in Eng- land four of the children of William Blake were baptized. He came to America, May 30, 1630, and remained at Dorchester or Roxbury, making the acquaintance there of William Pynchon and others who were considering a plan of settlement in the Connecticut Valley. At any rate he was with Pynchon and his asso- ciates on May 14 and 16, 1636, when they drew up and signed the articles of association at Agawam, now Springfield, and he was one of five to assign the lots and manage affairs of the colony. He drew land there, but appar- ently decided to return to Dorchester and settle. He drew land in South Boston in March, 1637-38. He was admitted a freeman, March 14. 1638-39. He was a man of integrity and ability. He was constable in 1641, select- man in 1645-47, and in 1651 on the committee to build the new meeting house. In 1656 he was elected town clerk and "clerk of the writs for the county of Suffolk," and these offices he held until within six weeks of his death, October 25, 1663. He was also clerk of the train band. In his will he made bequest for the repairing of the burying ground. Soon after he died his widow Agnes removed to Boston,
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probably to live with her son John or her only daughter, Anne Leager. His estate was appraised at two hundred and twenty-four pounds. His widow died at Dorchester. Chil- dren : I. Anne, baptized August 30, 1618, died at Boston, July 12, 1681. 2. John, baptized September 6, 1620, died at Boston, January 25. 1688-89. 3. William, baptized September 6. 1620, died at Milton, Massachusetts, Sep- tember 3. 1703. 4. James, baptized April 27, 1624, mentioned below. 5. Edward, supposed to be the youngest child, died at Milton, Sep- tember 3, 1692.
(II) James, son of William Blake, was bap- tized at Pitminster, England, April 27, 1624. He came to New England with his father and married. about 1651. Elizabeth Clapp, who died in Dorchester, January 16, 1693-94, in her sixty- first year, daughter of Deacon Edward and Prudence (Clapp) Clapp. He married (second) in Rehoboth, September 17, 1695, Elizabeth (Smith) Hunt, widow of Peter Hunt, and daughter of Henry and Judith Smith from county Norfolk. England. Mr. Blake lived in the north part of Dorchester. His house, built about 1650, was of such substantial char- acter that the town voted to model the par- sonage after it in 1669 and it remained in the Blake family until 1825. In 1895 it was re- moved from the original location on Cottage street, to Richardson Park, and the Dorchester Historical Society secured possession of it, and has fitted it up for the use of the society. Mr. Blake was a busy man. From 1658 to 1685 there is scarcely a year that he did not serve the town in some official capacity. He was selectman thirteen years, later constable, deputy to the general court, clerk of the writs, recorded, sergeant of the militia. He was deacon of the Dorchester church for four- teen years, and ruling elder for the same period. He was often called upon as admin- istrator and in other capacities in the settle- ment of estates. He died June 28, 1700, leav- ing a will dated June 26, 1700. His estate was appraised at four hundred and seventy-three pounds. He and his wife are buried in the old graveyard in Dorchester, and the stones that mark their graves are in excellent condi- tion. Children: 1. James, born August 15, 1652, mentioned below. 2. John, March 16, 1656-57, inherited the property of his Uncle John in Boston, but remained in Dorchester ; married Hannah -; died March 2, 1718. 3. Elizabeth, October 3, 1658, married Jere- miah Fuller. 4. Jonathan, July 12, 1660, died November 10, 1660. 5. Sarah, February 28,
1665, died May 22, 1666. 6. Joseph, August 27, 1667, married Mehitable Bird; died Feb- ruary 1, 1738-39.
(III) James (2), son of James (1) Blake, was born in Dorchester, August 15, 1652, died October 22, 1732. There has long been a tradition in the family that the first house in Dorchester Neck, now South Boston, was erected by James Blake. An investigation made a few years ago brought to light evidence that Captain James Foster had a dwelling there as early as 1676, but Blake's house was with- out doubt the second built on the peninsula about 1681. Although isolated from the village of Dorchester the house was beautifully situated to command a view of the harbor and shore. It was on the road to Castle William, later Fort Independence, and at times it be- came a sort of house of entertainment for the English officers at the fort. His new house was almost entirely destroyed by the British troops, February 13, 1776. Mr. Blake was a farmer. He was deacon of the Dorchester church twenty-three years. He married (first) February 6, 1681, Hannah Macey, died June 1, 1683, aged twenty-three years, daugh- ter of George and Susannah Macey, of Taun- ton. He married (second) July 8, 1684, Ruth Bachellor, born in Hampton, New Hampshire, May 9, 1662, died in Dorchester, January II, 1752, aged ninety years, daughter of Nathaniel and Deborah (Smith) Bachellor. Children : I. Hannah, born September 16, 1685, died October 2, 1686. 2. James, April 30, 1688, mentioned below. 3. Increase, June 8, 1699, married, July 23, 1724, in Boston, Anne Gray.
(IV) James (3), son of James (2) Blake, was born in Dorchester, April 30, 1688, died December 4, 1750, after a long illness. He was a noted land surveyor and made an actual survey of the whole of the then extensive town of Dorchester. Many of his plans and drawings are extant, and are models of neat- ness and design. He was also a maker of dials and it is said that the one formerly on the old Town House at the head of State street, Bos- ton, was made by him. He was versed in astronomy also, and something of a farmer. He was selectman from 1724 to 1748 inclusive ; town clerk twenty-four years, from 1725 to 1748 inclusive. He was on the committee to build the meeting house in 1743. He was the author of "Blake's Annals," the original of which is deposited with the New England His- toric Genealogical Society. In it he says: "I have in that time wrote in the second Book of ye Town Records, 208 pages, which finishes
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the book; and have begun the third Book of Records, & wrote therein 119 pages; besides making Tables for both the two first Books of Records, in an Intire Book by itself. I have also in the Treasurer's business, made, begun & wrote out, two large folio Books of Accompts, Containing about 224 folios of 448 pages each; and the major part of the Third Folio of about ye same bigness. Besides large Bundles of Tax Lists, Tables to make Rates by, Warrants for Town Meetings, Divisions of ye Highways, Plans of Land sold by ye Town &c. All which is more, I suppose, by many times over, than any one man before me has wrote & done for the Town." In March, 1749, he says: "In November last, I relapsed into a Chronical Disease, I have laboured under for above 30 years; occasioned at first as I conclude by over heats, Wet & cold, in my laying out ye wild & unimproved Lands be- longing to Ye Proprietors of this Town. I have been brought near unto ye gates of ye Grave, and am yet but weak & low, and have been ever since confined to my Room." His will was dated October 20, 1748, and proved December 25, 1750. His surveying instruments are or were lately owned by James Edward Blake, of Granville, Illinois. The compass was used until 1850. The scales and pro- tractor are of brass, and the drawing instru- ments are excellent. A poem by him on his profession has been preserved also. He mar- ried Wait Simpson, born in Boston, 1684, died in Dorchester, May 22, 1753. Both their gravestones are in good condition in the old graveyard. Children: I. Samuel, born Sep- tember 6, 1715, mentioned below. 2. James, October 15, 1716, married, May 1, 1739, Mary Pinson. 3. Wait, February 28, 1718, married Roger McKnight. 4. Thomas, July 26, 1720, died November 3, 1720. 5. Ruth, September 16, 1721, married, December 9, 1745, John Spurr ; died February 12, 1753. 6. Thomas, May 20, 1723, died April 3, 1724. 7. Thomas, September 18, 1725, died October 3, 1725.
(V) Samuel, son of James (3) Blake, was born in Dorchester, September 6, 1715, died May I, 1754. His will was dated February 17, 1752, and proved May 24, 1754. He was a surveyor like his father and a prominent man. He died suddenly from a fever, being ill about four days. He married, June 5, 1740, Patience White, born December 22, 1714, died Decem- ber 19, 1786, daughter of Edward and Patience White, of Dorchester. Children: 1. Samuel, born April 7, 1741, taken by the British at Fort Washington, November 16, 1776, and
died in prison. 2. Edward, December 22, 1742, married (first) April 3, 1768, Rebecca True; (second) September 30, 1792, Sarah S. Underwood. 3. Thomas, November 27, 1744, died December 15, 1745. 4. Patience, February 5, 1747, married, October 31, 1769, Abraham Howe. 5. Jonathan, January I, 1749, mentioned below. 6. James, December IO, 1750, died November 17, 1771. 7. Thomas, October 7, 1752, married, February 19, 1793, Mary Barnard. 8. Sarah (twin), September 21, 1754 (posthumous), married, June 9, 1772, John Pierce. 9. Mary (posthumous twin), September 21, 1754, died August 10, 1756.
(VI) Jonathan, son of Samuel Blake, was born in Dorchester, January 1, 1749. He mar- ried, October 14, 1773, Sarah Pierce, born December 5, 1750, died August 15, 1831, in Warwick, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Fessenden) Pierce, of Dorchester. He died at Warwick, October 8, 1836. He was a tailor and served seven years as an apprentice in Boston, and when he came of age started in business in Dorchester. He lived on the cor- ner between Bowdoin and Green streets. The house which he built in 1773 is now or was lately standing. He served through five cam- paigns in the revolution and was adjutant at Rhode Island. He was sick while at Ticon- deroga and later received a pension. In 1781 he sold his Dorchester property and bought a farm in Warwick, going there in June of that year. It is said that it took five days for the journey. He carried on his tailoring business in connection with farming, and is said to have cut clothes for his contemporaries when he was over eighty years old. Children, the first four born in Dorchester, the remainder in Warwick: 1. James, July 24, 1774, married, November 3, 1799, Susannah Conant. 2. Patience, March 5, 1776, died January 6, 1778. 3. Sarah, February 16, 1778, married, January 19, 1803, Francis Leonard. 4. Jonathan, May 29, 1780, married (first) January 18, 1803, Patty Conant ; (second) August 1, 1821, Mrs. Betsey Ballard. 5. Elizabeth, June 2, 1782, married (first) November 5, 1809, Amasa Bird; (second) April 10, 1814, Artemas Baker. 6. Mary, April 1, 1784, married, November 3, 1807, Richard Clapp ; had Sarah, born July 29, 1808: married Henry Humphreys (see sketch herewith). 7. Rebecca, July 29, 1786, died November 11, 1803. 8. Nancy, March 7, 1788, died September 26, 1839, unmarried. 9. Sam- tiel, May 19, 1797, married (first) October I, 1820, Betsey Fay ; married (second) Decem- ber 4, 1831, Lucretia Hildreth.
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The surname Clapp or Clap had CLAPP its origin in the proper or per- sonal name of Osgod Clapa, a Danish noble in the court of King Canute (1007-1036). The site of his country-place was known as Clapham, county Surrey. The ancient seat of the family in England is at Salcombe in Devonshire, where important estates were owned for many centuries by this family. Coat-of-arms of this branch: First and fourth three battle-axes second sable a griffin passant argent ; third sable an eagle with two heads displayed with a border engrailed argent. A coat-of-arms in common use by the Clapp family in England and America is : Vaire gules and argent a quarter azure charged with the sun or. Crest: A pike naiant proper. Motto: Fais ce que dois advienne que pourra.
The American family is descended from six immigrants-Edward and Captain Roger, sons of William Clapp, and John, Nicholas, Thomas and Ambrose, sons of Nicholas of Venn Ottery, Devonshire, England. The fathers William and Nicholas were brothers. All came to Dorchester, Massachusetts, forming one of the most prominent and influential families of that town.
(I) Nicholas Clapp, English progenitor, lived at Venn Ottery, Devonshire, England. Three of his sons and one daughter, the wife of his nephew, Edward Clapp, came to America. The Clapp genealogy gives the name of Richard instead of Nicholas, and is in error. Children : I. Thomas, born 1597, came from Weymouth, England, and in 1634 settled at Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay ; removed to Weymouth as early as 1639, thence to Scituate; died April 20, 1684. 2. Ambrose, lived and died in Eng- land. 3. Richard, had children, Richard, Eliz- abeth and Deborah ; remained in England. 4. Prudence, came to New England : married her cousin, Edward Clapp, and died at Dorchester in 1650. 5. Nicholas, born 1612, mentioned below. 6. John. came to Dorchester, Massa- chusetts, died July 24, 1655 ; mentions brothers and sisters in his will, brother-in-law and cousin. Roger Clapp ; his widow married (sec- ond) John Ellis, of Medfield; he left land in South Boston to the town and it was sold in 1835 for about a thousand dollars an acre, about eighteen acres.
(II) Nicholas (2), son of Nicholas (I) Clapp, was born at Dorchester, England, in 1612, removed to Venn Ottery, whence he came to Massachusetts in 1633 and settled at Dorchester; held various town offices; juror in 1653; deacon of the church. He died sud-
denly in his barn, November 24, 1679. He married (first) Sarah Clapp, daughter of his uncle, William Clapp, of Salcombe Regis. He married (second) Abigail Sharp, widow of Robert Sharp, of Brookline, Massachusetts. He resided in the north part of Dorchester on the west side of what is now Boston street, south of the Five Corners. A gravestone was erected in his memory by descendants in 1849. His sons Nathaniel and Ebenezer administered his estate. Children: I. Sarah, born Decem- ber 31, 1637, died young. 2. Nathaniel, Sep- tember 15, 1640, mentioned below. 3. Ebe- nezer, 1643, died at Milton, July 31, 1712. 4. Hannah, 1646, married, October 14, 1668, Ebe- nezer Strong, of Northampton. 5. Noah, July 15, 1667, removed to Sudbury ; married, July 28, 1690, Mary Wright ; (second) Mary - -.
(III) Nathaniel, son of Nicholas (2) Clapp, was born September 15, 1640, at Dorchester, died there May 16, 1707. He was one of the two town constables in 1671. He lived most of his life at Five Corners, now the junction of Boston, Cottage and Pond streets. He was highly respected and of good estate. His will was dated April 22, 1707. He married, March 31, 1668, Elizabeth Smith, died September 19, 1722, daughter of Lawrence Smith. Children : I. Rev. Nathaniel, born January 20, 1669, died October 30. 1735, minister at Newport, Rhode Island. 2. John, April 7, 1671, settled in Sud- bury, Massachusetts ; died there November 26, 1735. 3. Jonathan, August 31, 1673, died Jan- uary 2, 1723-24. 4. Elizabeth, May 2, 1676, married, March 14, 1699, Ebenezer Sumner. 5. Ebenezer, October 25, 1678, mentioned be- low. 6. Mehitable, August 30, 1684, died Feb- ruary 20, 1685.
(IV) Ebenezer, son of Nathaniel Clapp, was born at Dorchester, October 25, 1678, died May 20, 1750. He owned a large estate at the north angle of Five Corners, Dorchester, and in various sections of the town, at Blue Hills and in Stoughton. His inventory amounted to more than eight hundred and eleven pounds, and his wife's to more than two hundred and twenty pounds. He was a worthy and useful citizen. He married (first ) Hannah Clapp, born September 13, 1681, died August 9, 1747, daugh- ter of Elder Samuel Clapp, and granddaughter of Roger Clapp, one of the pioneers of Dor- chester. He married (second) November 13. 1749, Hannah Eddy, of Boston. Children of first wife: I. Ebenezer, born October 4, 1705, mentioned below. 2. Hannah, November 28, 1707, died March 16, 1799; married, January 2, 1735, John Tolman, Jr. 3. John, August
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