Roger Clapp and the Dorchester men.

Roger Clapp and the Dorchester men.

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Here landed Roger Clapp and the Dorchester men -- June 1630 -- marker is on Charles River Road across from the Perkins School. Roger was born on 6 April 1609 in Salcombe Regis, Devonshire, England. Roger sailed from on the ship "John and Mary" in 1629 and landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Roger Clapp was a Captain in the militia and chosen as a selectman fourteen times. He was chosen to represent Dorchester as Deputy of the court which brought him to Boston. In 1635 while Roger and his wife Joanna Ford remained in Dorchester for a period of time. Captain Roger Clapp died on 2 February 1690 in Boston.

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