Edmund Tapp

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁶⁰⁰
Edmund Tapp was one of the founders of the Church in Milford.

• Grave Stone: Edmund Tapp's Grave.

• Background Information. ⁶⁵³
From Paine ancestry : the family of Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declaration of Independence, pgs/ 78-79:
In a schedul prepared before April 1641, exhibiting the name of every proprietor in New Haven, Edmund Tapp is named with seven people in his family, 800 acres of estate land, 52½ acres land in the first division, 11½ acres of land in the Nect, 43½ of meadow lands, 174 Acres given in the second division, and his annual tax £3.06.6.

Among the proprietors of the southwest square of New Haven were at that time William Fowler, Edmund Tapp, etc. With the exception of Osborne, the original grantees of this square removed to Milford. The square was for some years designated as the herefordshire quarter, perhaps because some of the residents had emigrated from Herefordshire or its vincity.

Before Tapp and Benjamin Genn moved to Milford, a church had be orgianed in New Haven by the two men. They did this on 22 Aug 1639. They used this same method of organization when they moved to Mildford. They chose seven men for the founddation, and these admitted others. Among the seven for Milford were Peter Prudden and Edmund Tapp.

At the first general court of the planters held in Milford, 20 Nov 1639, they agreed that the power of electing officers should be in the church only, and that these choices should be among those voting. In this way they chose the judges who would make decisions in all civil affairs whether it be cases of one man vs. another, or to try cases of people accused of crimes. The people who were chosen for New Haven were William Fowler and Edmund Tapp.

Edmund Tapp died in 1643, and his widow, whose name is not know, died in 1673. His daughter, Jane Tapp married Governor Robert Treat.