Supply Clap, 1660-1686
from The Clapp Memorial. Record of the Clapp Family in America … Ebenezer Clapp, compiler. (Boston: David Clapp & Son, 1876)
Son of Roger Clap
Supply, b. Oct. 30, 1660; d. March, 5, 1686. His youth was one of great promise, and he seems to have early shown a predilection for the military service, as it then existed in the colony. But his life came to an untimely end. He was, as Mr. Blake writes, “suddenly taken out of the world by the accidental firing of a gun at the Castle, where his father was then the Captain and himself an officer.” The following references to the event are copied from the Journal of Judge Sewall, then in Boston:
March 5, 1685/6, “Capt. Clap’s son (a very desirable man, Gunner of the Castle, tho’ Mr. Baxter has the name) hath one of his eyes shot out, and a piece of his skull taken away, by the accidental firing of a gun, as he was going a fowling.”
March 9, 1685/6, “Supply Clap gunner of the Castle, is buried at Dorchester, by the Castle Company, about noon; after the volleys there, several great guns were fired at the Castle; both heard by the Town.”