Edmund Tapp1

M, d. before 26 April 1653
     Edmund was born in Herefordshire, England.2 Edmund married Anna (?) in Herefordshire, England. The family immigrated from Herefordshire, England setting sail on 31 May 1637 and landing in New England 31 August 1637 & settled in Milford, New Haven Colony, having immigrated with 15 other families. Edmund was a founding father of the Church of Christ in Milford and was one those trusted with having the deed of Milford placed in their hands. In 1643, he along with William Fowler were chosen as a magistrate of the colony of New Haven.3,4,5

He was one of the original members of the Church of Christ at Milford which was fcormed on 22 August 1639.6 He was a colonel in New Hampshire in October 1643.7 Edmund made his will on 1 April 1653 at Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut.8 Edmund departed this life before 26 April 1653 in Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut.9,10 The inventory of Edmund's estate was taken on Saturday, 26 April 1653.11

Family

Anna (?) d. a 17 Aug 1673
Children

Citations

  1. [S115] Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations Of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, On The Basis Of Farmer's Registar, Volume IV: page 22 - TAPP, + EDMUND, Milford 1639, one of the seven pillars at found, of the ch. 22 Aug. in New Haven, that yr. may have been an Assist, of that Col. tho. Mather certain, gives a false date to all the earliest. He d. says Lambert, 1653. His will, wh. is lost, bore date 1 Apr. 1653, and his inv. was tak. 26 of the same mo. Of his fam. we kn. little. His d. Jane, wh. d. 8 Apr. 1703 (and had prob. 35 yrs. bef. less than the ch. assign, by tradit.), was w. of Gov. Robert Treat; but from the will of his wid. 17 Aug. 1673, shortly bef. her d. we find two other ds. ment. Ann, d. of William Andrews, wh. had first been w. of William Gibbard, and Eliz. w. of John Nash. Beside this, she calls in that docum. William Fowler, her s.-in-law, gives something to him and three ds. of his, term.
    by testat. her cous.
  2. [S974] S. Allyn Peck, Reverand Peter Prudden, Pastor & Founder of Milford, Connecticut & His English Ancestry, page 8 -.
  3. [S974] S. Allyn Peck, Reverand Peter Prudden, Pastor & Founder of Milford, Connecticut & His English Ancestry, pages 7-8 - …Mr. Peter Prudden appears in the list of Free Planters, Nov. 29, 1639 (Milford Records, vol. 1, p. 1). It was not, however, until Apr. 18, 1640, that Mr. Prudden was ordained pastor of the Milford church. His flock at Milford was composed of many of his original followers. And several of those whom he had impressed during his preaching at Wethersfield, Conn., in the summer of 1638 when the population of that place was in a state of flux and flow, and there was no regularly instituted minister there, joined him in the new enterprise. Because of property at Gt. Edston, Yorkshire (rendered incorrectly as Edgeton or Edgerton, Yorkshire, by early American historians), which was held by the Prudden family in America for many generations, and because of Mr. Prudden having preached in Herefordshire, it was assumed by Lambert in his History of the Colony of New Haven that most of the original planters, as they described themselves, of Milford, Conn., were from Yorkshire and Herefordshire. As a matter of fact, most of these original settlers were from the county of Hertford,c and counties adjacent to it. Research has now established that Tapp, Buckingham, Fowler, Astwood, Clark, and Burwell came definitely from Hertfordshire, that Baldwin, Fenn, Bryan, and Whitman were Buckinghamshire people, that Botsford and Camp were natives of Bedfordshire and Essex respectively….
  4. [S1200] By William Chauncey Fowler, William Fowler, the magistrate, and one line of his descendants


    , …The deed of Milford was given to William Fowler, Edmund Tapp, Zachariah Whitman and Alexander Bryan, in trust for the body of planters… …On the 26th of October, 1643, William Fowler and Edmund Tapp of Milford, were chosen magistrates of the colony of New Haven….
  5. [S1201] Donald Lines Jacobus, Origins of the Botsford family, On 31 May 1637, Peter Prudden sailed for New England with fifteen families from his native Hertfordshire. The date of sailing was discovered not many years ago in a sworn deposition made by Edmund Tapp at “Quinypyack in New England” 7 Aug. 1643,….
  6. [S1128] Donald Linus Jacobus, Milford Church Records, page 28.
  7. [S326] Families of Ancient New Haven, Volume IV: page 1002.
  8. [S115] Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations Of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, On The Basis Of Farmer's Registar, Volume IV: page 22 - Will of Edmund Tapp dated: 1 April 1653 Milford - will is lost.
  9. [S1128] Donald Linus Jacobus, Milford Church Records, page 28 - Edmund Tapp died at New Haven 1653.
  10. [S326] Families of Ancient New Haven, Volume IV: page 1002 - Edmund Tapp died 1654.
  11. [S115] Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations Of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, On The Basis Of Farmer's Registar, Volume IV: page 22.