APPENDIX A. 717 



Clapp of North Castle. — Two brothers of this name were among the earliest 

 settlers of West Farms. John removed to North Castle about 120 years ago. 

 His sons were (I.) John, proprietor of the Homestead, who left Thomas, Dorcas, 

 mar. 1, William Sutton: 2, Francis Nash. Mary mar. Joseph Carpenter, (H.) 



Silas of Rhode Island. (III.) Elias who had John and Benjamin. (IV.) Gibson* 



Class, of Bedford. — The names of William and Nathan Clark, occur in a list 



of freeholders of Bedford, in 1713-14. William, mar. Hannah and had 



John, William, Ebenezer, David and Jabesh. Nathan left I. Stephen, father of 

 Cornelius. II, Nathan who had Daniel of Vermont, the father of Stephen of 

 Bedford. HI, Reuben. IV, Martha. V, Sarah. VI, Joseph, proprietor of the 

 Homestead, mar. Sarah Smith, he left 1, James: 2, Joseph, mar. Hannah Clock; 

 their children were Israel, Sydney, Delaware, Lewis, John of Bedford, Joseph of 

 Salem, Isaac of Orange Co., Bethia, Takiah Canfield, Clara, mar. Caleb K. Hob- 

 by, Phoebe, mar. John Bussing, Hannah, mar. Abel B. Raymond, and Anne, 

 who mar. James Howe of Bedford. 3. Nathan of Bedford, mar. Lydia Holmes, 

 and had Albert, d. a?t. 23, Jeremiah of Bedford, Deborah, mar. James Ferris, 

 Sarah, mar. Jesse Hoyt, Catharine and Abigail. 



Close, of North Salem. — This family was formerly seated at Langley, near 

 Macclesfield, England, A. D. 1486. Cloughes, Clowes, or Close, is a Saxon word 

 signifying a cliff or cleft in a valley between high hills. Thomas Close, removed 

 from England to Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1665, d. July 26, 1683. His sons 

 were (I.) Thomas, (II.) Joseph. (III.) Benjamin, who left a son Benjamin, (IV.) 

 John. Joseph, the second sou of Thomas, b. 1674, removed from Greenwich to 

 North Salem, in 1749, and d. in 1760, set. 86. He mar. Rebecca Tompkins, she 

 d. A. D. 1761, set. 82. Their children were 1st, Joseph ; 2, Elizabeth ; 3. Solo- 

 mon; 4, Sarah; 5, Rachel; 6, Thomas; 7, Benjamin; and 8, Rebecca. Solomon, 

 second sou of Joseph, was b. June 23, 1706, d. A. D. 1778, set. 72, mar. Deborah 



Brush. He had ten children, (1.) Solomon of North Salem, who left , mar. a 



Paddock; Phame, mar. Epenetus Wallace, M. D. of North Salem. (II.) Nathan- 

 iel of North Salem, b. 1732, d. 1773. He had 1, Nathaniel of North Salem, d. 

 A. D. 1S37, set. 77, mar. Mary Wood, and left 1st. Ebenezer ; 2d, Amzi of North 

 Salem, who had Isaac, Daniel II., Ebenezer L.. Jeremiah, Margaret A., Ammi 

 K., Charles II., and Mary R. ; 3, Nathaniel; 4th, Rachel; 5th, John of North 

 Salem. 2, Jesse of North Salem, d. set. 86, 3, Isaac; 4, Deborah, mar. Thomas 

 Chapman; 5, Rachel mar. Joseph Crosby; 6, Sarah; 7, Matilda. (III.) Deborah, 

 (IV.) Hannah, (V.) Rev. John of North Salem, a graduate of Princeton, N. J., 

 minister at New Windsor, in 1792, b. 1737, d. 1813 at Waterford, New York, mar. 

 Miss Weeks of L. L, and left two da. who reside at Waterford. (VI.) Sarah. 

 (VII.) Jesse, in the military service of the Colony, d. at Half Moon Point, July 

 29th, 1758, set. 17. (VIII.) Rev. David, a Presbyterian minister at Paterson, N. 

 J. This individual was a great friend to his country, and during the Revolu- 

 tion, suffered much at the hands of the enemy. He graduated at Yale College, 

 and d. at Patterson, in Putatn Co., in 1783, cot. 41. (IX.) Rev. Tompkins, a 

 Presbyterian minister, d. at Fishkill, Sept. 26, 1770, set, 27, (X) Mindwell, d. 

 Oct. 22, 1762, mar. Elizabeth . 



Coe, of Rye. Two brothers of this name, from Norfolk Co., England, were 

 settled in Massachussetts, as early as 1655. Robert removed to Durham, where 



