Huntingdon Co Clappers

I have been talking to a Huntingdon Co Clapper researcher about her line and we decided to open it up to other researchers.So what I am attempting to square is a family narriative with the 1790 census for that county.Here is the letter:

I am trying to square your narrative with the 1790 census below.

The 1790 Huntingdon Co Census shows
1. John Clapper
2. Harmon Clapper
3. Henry Clapper
4. John Clapper
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You say in your narrative

"It is of Emanuel Clapper we will speak of first.When he and his wife ith one child named Daniel landed they were sold as slaves, the money usedto pay their passage on board of ship. After being sold, the wife was
separated from her husband. She became sick. The man who bought the father
would not allow him to visit his wife.The governor of the territory was
importuned in their behalf and paid the ransom money, by which act they
were liberated.

Later he came with his family to Blair County and settled on piney Creek
near Williamsburg where many of the Clapper family were born and reared.

To Emanuel Clapper were born Henry, John, Jacob, George, Daniel and Susan.
Susan became the wife of Anthony Beaver a surveyor near Martinsburg, Pa.
Of Susan, Henry and John, we were unable to get any record of which to
speak accurately

To JACOB CLAPPER were born George, Henry, Susanna, wife of Adolphus Hall;
Emily, wife of Jacob Wise; Elizabeth, wife of George Geesey; Nancy wife of
David Markey; Mary, wife of Mr. Butterbaugh, and Margaret and David,
unmarried. These persons all lived in Blair and Huntingdon Counties, and
as far as is known now are all dead. Mr. Richard Arthurs, now living at
South Lakemont, is a daughter of Adolphus hall and a granddaughter of
Jacob Clapper.

Following the history of Jacob Clapper, we will speak of his son George
Clapper, who died of cancer in the face. In an old German Bible possession
of John Clapper of Lower Reese Station is recorded the following wedding
notice; ³May the thirteenth, 1823, George Clapper and Catherine Fornwalt,
were married at the house of George Fay, before the Justice of Peace,
William Spear, near Williamsburg.

To this union were born Isaac, Daniel, George, Adolphus, John, James,
David, Mary, Elizabeth and Susana, all of whom are dead excepting John
Clapper of Lower Reese Station, now 80 years old and having lived all his
life in Frankstown Township."
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In the above narrative the first date is the marriage of George Clapper in
1823.This would have made him born around 1800.His father born around
1770 or so.

Did you say earlier that Emanuel was also know as Matheus?

Who are the Clappers shown in the 1790 census and how do you see them
fitting into this story?

Why cannot one of the John Clapper's be the father and the other three his
son's?

If this were to work then could this John Mathius Klopfer (Clapper) below
be your originial new world settler?

Warm?

Bob




Name: John Mathias Klopfer
Given Name: John Mathias
Surname: Klopfer
Name: Matheus Klepfer
Given Name: Matheus
Surname: Klepfer
Name: Matheus Klopper
Given Name: Matheus
Surname: Klopper
Sex: M
Birth: 1720 in Ludwigsberg, , Bayern, Germany
Death: Abt 1786 in , York, Pennsylvania, USA
_UID: 22534A01E26811D9BAE0444553540000BE9A
Change Date: 2 Aug 2004 at 11:45
Note:
(Research):All Info taken from Ancestry World Tree.ancestry.com -
Ancestors and Related Families of Philip D. Campbell.

Ancestry.com - Passenger and Immigration Lists Indes, 1500's-1900's shows
the following:

Ship passenger list shows Matheus, Wife Rosina, Child Johannes 3, Child
Michael 1, Child Elizabeth 6, and Child George 8.

Matheus and Rosina immigrated to York Co., PA May 8, 1750.


Marriage 1 Rosina Barbara b: in Ludwigsberg, , Bayern, Germany
Married:
Change Date: 2 Aug 2004
Children
George Klopfer b: 1742 in Ludwigsberg, , Bayern, Germany
Elizabeth Klopfer b: 1744 in Ludwigsberg, , Bayern, Germany
Johannes Klopfer b: 1747 in Ludwigsberg, , Bayern, Germany
Michael Klopfer b: 1749 in Ludwigsberg, , Bayern, Germany
Mary Elizabeth Klopfer b: 1754
Rosina Sophia Klopfer b: 8 Sep 1754 in Hellam, York, Pennsylvania, USA c:
8 Oct 1754 in Trinity Luthern Church, York Co., Pa.


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Any ideas?

Bob Hill