Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

CLAP.
Extensive genealogies of the Claps have been printed.
Many of this name came over and settled in Dorchester and
vicinity. Two of the name were early in Barnstable ; but no
descendants remain. Eleazer, a son of Dea. Thomas, of Weymouth
and Scituate, was a soldier in King Phillip's war, and was
slain at Rehobeth March 26, 1675. He had no family in
Barnstable.
Increase, resided at West Barnstable, married, Oct. 1675
Elizabeth, Widow of Nathaniel Goodspeed, and daughter of John
Bursley. His children born in Barnstable were: 1, John, Oct.
1676 ; 2, Charitv, March, 1677 ; 3, Thomas, Jan. 1681, died Jan.
1683 ; 4, Thomas, Dec. 1684.
Increase Clap's house was on the south side of the road a
little east of Dexter's lane. He purchased his estate probably of
the Rowleys, when they removed to Falmouth, who were earlj'
settlers in that neighborhood, and was a proprietor of the common
lands "in Rowley's right." He was living in 1697. Several
of the Clap family of Scituate intermarried with the Bournes and
Gorhams, of Barnstable.
CAM MET.
I do not find this name in the works of Savage, Bond,
Mitchell, or Hinman. Peter Cammet was the first of the name
in Barnstable. He married. May 4, 1741, Thankful Bodfish, ai:d
had Hannah 26, 1742, and David Sept. 25, 1744. Hannah
married, in 1765, John Bates, and those of the name in Barnstable
are, I think, descendants of David.