Daughter of Amasa Clapp and Doritha Lyman of Northampton MA. Married Alvan Rice; mother of William Clapp Rice (1802 Chesterfield MA). Direct descendant of Roger Clapp who arrived 1630 on the Mary and John (NOT Mayflower) at Nantasket: Mary -> Amasa5 -> Seth4 -> Samuel3 -> Preserved2 -> Roger1 Clapp.
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Did a Mayflower passenger walk into our family? The 2026 investigation
1620 to 2026
Through the spring of 2026 we ran every plausible Mayflower path back from the Rice trunk. The Mayflower carried 102 passengers on her 1620 voyage; the next two Pilgrim ships were the Fortune (1621) and the Anne (1623); after that the Great Migration brought 21,000 more colonists between 1630 and 1640, but those are not Pilgrims. Four candidate chains were investigated and resolved.
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Documents and artifacts
hand-drawn-family-tree
Rice family tree (Edmond Rice 1594 to mid-20th-century descendants, including the Hindman marriage)
Current location: Brant Hindman's family papers