Notes for HENRY I CLAPPER

Notes for HENRY I CLAPPER

YEAR AGE EVENT/LOCATION {Source}
---- --- ----------------------------------------------

MIS: HENRY'S NAME SPELLED HENERY I THE U.S. CENSUS OF 1790, PA
CLAPPERS IN AMERICA, 1980, P. 426
MIS: HENRY AND CHRISTENA'S FAMILY IS FIRST MENTIONED IN THE 1776 MD
CENSUS OF WASHINGTON CO, ELIZABETH HUNDRED.
MIS: HE WAS LISTED AS HENRY KLABER, AGE 58, CHRISTENA, 50 AND 7
CHILDREN: HENRY, 26, CATHARINE, 20, ELIZAETH, 17, FRONICA, 17,
MARY, 13, HERMAN, 9, AND LUDWIG. THEY PROBABLY LIVED
"SOMEWHERE ALONG THE PA AND MD BORDER AREA OF FRANKLIN CO, PA
(EARLIER CUMBERLAND CO.) AND WASHINGTON CO., MD." "SOME
FAMILIES WHOSE NAMES ARE CONNECTED WITH CLAPPERS HELD PROPERTY
ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER. SOME MARRIED WITH CLAPPERS AND
THEN MOVED TO HUNTINGDON AND BEDFORD CO" (CLAPPERS IN AMERICA,
1980, P. 52).
MIS: IN 1785, "HENRY AND CHRISTENA WAS ASSESSED TAXES IN THE BEDFORD
CO, FRANKSTOWN TWP. THIS AREA BECAME PART OF THE NEWLY FORMED
HUNTINGDON CO. IN 1787 AND WE FIND THAT HE WAS TAXABLE HERE
UNTIL HIS DEATH. IN 1791 HE WAS ASSESSED FOR 150 ACRES 2H2C
IN LIVED 'NR BEAVERDAM.' BY 1791 HE HAD 300 ACRES AND IT
REMAINED SO UNTIL CA. 1797. HENRY SETTLED ALONG PINEY CREEK
WHERE IT FLOWS INTO JUNIATA RIVER" (CLAPPERS IN AMERICA, 1980,
P. 52).
MIS: HENRY'S 300 ACRE FARM "CONTINUED IN THE FAMILY THROUGH LUDWIG
AND HIS DESCENDANTS FOR THREE GENERATIONS." IN 1980 IT WAS "A
DAIRY FARM BUT NO LONGER IN THE CLAPPER FAMILY. (CLAPPERS IN
AMERICA, 1980, P. 52).
MIS: HIS LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, DATED 26 MARCH 1796, CAN BE FOUND
IN THE CLAPPERS IN AMERICA, 1980, PP. 53-54.
MIS: IT HAS BEEN TOLD THAT HENRY AND CHRISTENA CLAPPER WERE BURIED
IN GANNISTER IN A CEMETARY NEAR THE LEDGE OF THE QUARRY THERE.
QUITE SOMETIME AGO VANDALS PUSHED HEADSTONES FROM THIS CEMETARY
INTO THE DEEP WATER HOLE BELOW.
(CLAPPERS IN AMERICA, 1980, P. 54).
MIS: JOHN W WILSON
RR 1, BOX 6
DENVER, IN 46926
WILSON@NETUSA1.NET
MIS: LOWELL FREDERICK LAVY
FRED-CHERYL@MSN.COM
MIS: LEE COCHRAN WILKES
LMC_LEE@AOL.COM MIS: MARY L SHIRER
MLSHIRER@PACBELL.NET