John Pierce Clapp
William Dana Orcutt. Good Old Dorchester. (1893), 461
St. Mary’s Church suffered in 1885 a similar loss to that of the First Parish four years previously, by the death of another member of the Clapp family. John Pierce Clapp was born in Dorchester February 12, 1803, and died May 28, 1885. He was confirmed in 1842 by Bishop Griswold, and was one of the early promoters of St. Mary’s parish. For almost forty years he was chosen to be a warden of the parish, and occupied the office of senior warden for thirty-five consecutive years.