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Lapp (Lappe, Lape, Lap), a Mennonite family name. The first settler by this name to come to America was Johannes (L) Lap, who arrived in [[Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA)|Philadelphia]] on 29 September 1733, on the Pink Mary, which sailed from Rotterdam via Plymouth. He settled in [[Bucks County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Bucks County]], Pennsylvania, and became the progenitor of the Lapp family in the Mennonite Church. One of his descendants was Deacon Samuel W. Lapp of the [[Line Lexington Mennonite Church (Line Lexington, Pennsylvania, USA)|Line Lexington]], Pennsylvania, congregation, who moved to [[Nebraska (USA)|Nebraska]] in 1879 and is better known as the father of four sons who became bishops, and two of them foreign missionaries in the Mennonite Church. They are Daniel G. (1867-1952), who spent the greater part of his life at Roseland, NE. He was a widely traveled and an outstanding bishop in the western part of the church in the [[United States of America|United States]] and served on a number of church-wide committees and boards; Samuel G. (1869-1916), who served the South English, Iowa, congregation; Mahlon C. (1871-1923), who was a pioneer missionary to [[India|India]] 1901-23; and George J. (1879-1951), who served five terms as a missionary to India and was also a widely known and much-used speaker in the churches in America. Other descendants of this first settler include two deacons of the Line Lexington congregation, Abraham (1777-1855) and Henry B. (1853-1931) ; and [[Lapp, John Edwin (1905-1988)|John E. Lapp]] (1905-1988), bishop in the Plain congregation, Lansdale, Pennsylvania. John Lapp (1798-1878) was bishop at [[Clarence (New York, USA)|Clarence]], [[New York (USA)|New York]].

The progenitor of the large Lapp family in the [[Old Order Amish|Old Order Amish]] Church is thought to have been Michael Lapp (b. 6 April 1737), who likely arrived in Philadelphia on 22 September 1752. This family greatly outnumbers in size the family in the Mennonite Church. The <em>Family Almanac</em> (Scottdale, PA, 1954) listed 17 ordained men by this name among the Amish, whereas the Mennonite Church listed but one.
= Bibliography =
<em>Perkiomen Region (Pennsburg, Pennsylvania, USA)</em> 10, No. 2 (April 1932).

<em>Ancestry of Abram Clemmer</em>

Lapp, C. L. <em>Genealogy of the Descendants of Isaac and Barbara Lapp</em> N.p., 1941.
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