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Clap, Thomas
Abt 1708 - 1767 (~ 59 years)-
Name Clap, Thomas Christened 6 Aug 1704 Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States 
Born Abt 1708 Windham, Connecticut, United States [1] Gender Male FamilySearch Id LSSS-Y3P Died 7 Jan 1767 New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States [2] Buried YALE COLLEGE CHAPEL Person ID I1148 USA Last Modified 12 Sep 2016
Father Clapp, Stephen, b. 4 Mar 1669, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts , d. 11 Dec 1756, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States (Age 87 years) Mother Gorham, Temperance, b. 2 Aug 1678, Barnstable, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States , d. 3 Dec 1768, Norton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States (Age 90 years) Family ID F685 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Whiting, Mary, b. 24 Nov 1712, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States , d. 9 Aug 1736, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States (Age 23 years) Married 23 Sep 1727 Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States [3] Children 1. Clap, child, b. Abt 1773, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States 2. Clapp, b. Abt 1734, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States , d. 1734 (Age ~ 0 years)3. Clapp, Child - A, b. 1734, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States 4. Clapp, Child - C, b. 1731, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States 5. Clap, A Child, b. 25 Jul 1736, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States , d. 25 Jul 1736, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States (Age 0 years)6. Clap, Anna, b. 13 May 1734, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States , d. Apr 1735, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States (Age 0 years)7. Clap, Temperance, b. 21 Apr 1731, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States , d. 3 Jun 1731, Windham, Connecticut, United States (Age 0 years)8. Clapp, Mary, b. 1713, Connecticut, United States , d. 6 Jun 1807, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States (Age 94 years)9. Clap, Child, b. 1736, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States , d. 25 Aug 1736 (Age 0 years)Last Modified 5 Aug 2021 Family ID F665 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Married 5 Feb 1741 Connecticut, United States [4] Last Modified 5 Aug 2021 Family ID F684 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Nathan Whiting
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Nathan Whiting (b. 4 May 1724 , Windham, Connecticut - d. 1771was a soldier and merchant in Colonial America .
[edit ] Biography
Whiting's parents died while he was a child, and he was raised by father's sister Mary and her husband, Reverend Thomas Clap . Whiting would graduate from Yale in 1743 while his uncle Thomas was president of the University.[1]
In 1745 Ensign Nathan Whiting joined the New England army being raised to capture Fortress Louisbourg from the French . After his service in King George's War , he became a merchant in New Haven, Connecticut . In 1750 Nathan married Mary Saltonstall. They would have eight children together.
At the start of the French and Indian War , Whiting was appointed as Lieutenant Colonel of the 2nd Connecticut Militia Regiment. During the Battle of Lake George on September 8 , 1755 , Col. Whiting's Regiment and the Massachusetts regiment of Col. Ephraim Williams were marching between Lake George and Fort Edward 14 miles away, when their column was ambushed by an army of French and their Indian allies. With the death of Col. Williams, Col. Whiting led the survivors back to Sir William Johnson 's camp at Lake George.[2] There the Colonial army held off the French attacks until men from Joseph Blanchard 's New Hampshire Provincial Regiment attacked the rear of the French army and captured the French commander Jean Erdman, Baron Dieskau .
In 1756 Whiting was promoted to full Colonel in the Connecticut militia . In 1757 his regiment was at Fort at Number 4 on the Connecticut River in New Hampshire guarding the frontier.
After the war Col. Whiting served in the Connecticut General Assembly until his death on 9 April 1771 .[3] He is buried at the Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven .
[edit ] References
^ Welles, Lemuel Aiken (1900). "Letters of Col. Nathan Whiting, Written from Camp During the French and Indian War". In Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical Society, Vol. VI, p. 133. New Haven: New Haven Colony Historical Society.
^ Welles (1900), p. 139.
^ Welles (1900), p. 150.
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Sources - [S2] International Genealogical Index, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Thomas Clap; Male; Birth: About 1708 , Windham, Connecticut; Spouse: Mary Whiting; Marriage: 23 NOV 1727 , Windham, Connecticut
Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church.
Search performed using PAF Insight on 8/30/2008 - [S2] International Genealogical Index, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Thomas Clap; Male; Death: 07 JAN 1767; Spouse: Mary Whiting; Marriage: 23 NOV 1727 Windham, Windham, Connecticut
Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church.
Search performed using PAF Insight on 8/30/2008 - [S2] International Genealogical Index, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Mary Whiting; Female; Birth: 24 NOV 1712 Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut; Death: 09 AUG 1736; Father: Samuel Whiting; Mother: Elizabeth Adams; Spouse: Thomas Clap; Marriage: 23 SEP 1727; Sealing to Spouse: 11 JUN 1953 Saint George, Washington, Utah; Film Number: 458133 Page Number: Reference number:
Record submitted by a member of the LDS Church
Search performed using PAF Insight on 11/24/2007 - [S2] International Genealogical Index, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Thomas Clap; Male; Birth: About 1702 Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; Marriage: 05 FEB 1741 , , Connecticut
Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church.
Search performed using PAF Insight on 8/30/2008
- [S2] International Genealogical Index, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.