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Could not find which method <init>() to invoke from this list on newInstance in groovy closure

I am learning groovy and I am trying to initialize my class dynamically with default values for all fields. So how I am proceeding is, I am taking the list of all the properties and getting the type of that object and create an object of the type, but I am getting error when executing newInstance :

Exception in thread "main" org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.metaclass.MethodSelectionException: Could not find which method <init>() to invoke from this list:
  public java.lang.Boolean#<init>(boolean)
  public java.lang.Boolean#<init>(java.lang.String)
    at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.chooseMethodInternal(MetaClassImpl.java:3160)
    at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.chooseMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:3097)
    at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeConstructor(MetaClassImpl.java:1707)
    at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeConstructor(MetaClassImpl.java:1526)
Below is the code
public static void init() {
        Position position1 = new Position();
        JXPathContext context = JXPathContext.newContext(position1)
        context.createPathAndSetValue('id', '2')
        position1.properties.each { Map.Entry entry ->
            String propertyName = entry.key;
            if (!propertyName.equalsIgnoreCase('class')) {
                Class clazz = position1.class.getDeclaredField(propertyName)?.type
                println "$clazz"
                Object ob = clazz.newInstance()
        Identifier sourceSystemPositionId = new Identifier()
        context.setValue('sourceSystemPositionId/content', 'default-content')
        context.setValue('sourceSystemPositionId/domain', 'default-domain')
        println "$position1"
                You are trying to create a new java.lang.Boolean object, but class java.lang.Boolean does not have a constructor that takes no arguments.
– Jesper
                Jul 13, 2016 at 8:25
View the java docs for java.lang.Boolean. As you can see in the section Constructor Summary there's no no-arg constructor (and this is what exception message says) for this class. You must either: 
invoke it (constructor) with boolean or String argument
use default value for boolean - which is false
initialize the value with Boolean.FALSE or Boolean.TRUE
        
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