Clapp family papers
Contributors: Clapp, Asa W. H. (Asa William Henry), 1805-1891; Clapp, Charles Q., 1799-1868; Clapp, Mary Jane Emerson, 1835-1922; Woodbury, Elizabeth Williams Clapp
Language: eng
Number of pages: 3800
Subjects: Correspondence; Commerce; Merchants; Shipping
Description: Correspondence, estate and business papers, and genealogical material relating primarily to the family's shipping and commercial activities and to the handling of the family estate.  Includes genealogical records of the Clapp, Dearborn, Lee, and Woodbury families; correspondence of Henry Dearborn and his wife, Sara Bowdoin Dearborn; and records for the schooner Aurora and the brig Diomede.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Gist Blair, 1934-1936.

transferred to Blair House, Washington, D.C.

Merchant family of Maine.  Family members represented include Asa Clapp, merchant, ship captain, and state legislator; his sons and business associates, Asa W.H. Clapp and Charles Q. Clapp; a daughter, Elizabeth Williams Clapp Woodbury; a granddaughter, Mary Jane Emerson Clapp; and Henry Dearborn, U.S. secretary of war.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.