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Title: English and Scotch immigrant ancestors of the Clapp-Cheney family.
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Pope, Charles Henry, 1841-1918
Subjects: Clapp family Cheney family
Publisher: Boston in New England. : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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Capen, Capin.
Bernard Capin, born in England in the year 1552, married on Monday in Whitsun
week, 1596, Joan, daughter of Oliver Purchase (" Purchis "), children born in Eng-
land: Ruth, born 7 August, 1600; Susanna, born, April, 1602, died Nov., 1666 [believed]

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by Stiles and others to have married first, Wm. Rockwell, and second, Matthew Grant;
some discrepancy in dates.] John, born 26 Jan. 1612. (He came to this country with
his parents; married first, Redegon, daughter of Nicholas Clap of Venn Ottery, Oct. 20,
1637; married second, 20 Sept., 1647, Mary, daughter of Samuel Bass of Braintree.)
The family came from Dorchester, Eng., about Feb. 26, 1632. (See quotation from the
diary of Wm. Whitway in Dorchester Pope Family, p. 13.) Many of these particulars
are taken from the record made in a copy of the New Testament which came down in
the family; the record is printed in the Genealogical Register, volume two, page 80.
He settled at Dorchester; proprietor, 5 Aug., 1633, freeman. May 25, 1636. From
some expressions in the wills of Thomas Swift and Dorothy Upsall it may be inferred
that Elizabeth, wife of T. Swift, Dorothy, wife of Nicholas Upsall, and Honour, wife of
William Hannum, were also children of Bernard and Joanna C. He died 8 Nov.,
1638, aged 76.

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