When Diadamia Clapp was born in 1795, in Otsego, New York, United States, her father, Thomas Clapp, was 33 and her mother, Deidamia Kellogg, was 32. She married Samuel Davis in May 1815, in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Harborcreek Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850 and Hanover, Chautauqua, New York, United States for about 10 years. She died after 1865, in New York, United States.
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Albany became the capital of New York in 1797. Albany is the oldest continuous settlement of the original 13 colonies.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
English (Devon and Somerset): either from Middle English clop(pe), clap(pe) ‘lump’, perhaps denoting a stocky person, or Middle English clap(pe) ‘loud noise; noisy, idle chatter’.
Americanized form of German Klapp .
In some cases also an Americanized form of Slovenian Klep: nickname from klep ‘sharpness of scythe or sickle’, also ‘sharpening with a hammer’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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