CORSON, Samuel

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Maine, USA
• Residence: Between 1693 and 1850, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: Between 1700 and 1900, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA

Notes:

Samuel, along with Bartholomew Stevenson, Peter Mason Jr. and Stephen Jenkins were charged in September 1701 with aiding in the escape of Grace Hall, daughter of the Deacon John Hall, after being charged with bastardy (she was 27 years old at the time). Samuel was witness against Joanna Potts, his mother-in-law, for selling drink in 1707.
He owned 20 acres of land in 1719, presumably on his father Cornelius' grant on Fresh Neck Creek in Dover, left to him by his father. In 1719 Richard Waldren filed a suit in court against a dozen people "Pretenders to Land at Cocheco Point", including "Samuel Cosen. Planter." The suit dragged on for nine years and was settled in 1728 by dividing the land in question and giving half to Waldren. It appears that Samuel left his father's grant early in the 1720's but not because he was dispossessed. During the time of the lawsuit Samuel held a homestead in the Rollingsford (or Somerswirth) section of Dover. He was granted land in 1722 in Rochester, receiving a "thirdly third share," or one share to be divided equally between three poeple. He sold this property in 1725, but never lived on it, as the first permanent settler didn't move into Rochester until 1728.
Samuel's land was noted in Somersworth 9 March 1727 in a plan to lay out a highway from Salmon Falls to Cocheco, passing between Samuel Corson's land and the Wallingford's land.
Samuel "Cason" along with other inhabitants at the Somersworth section of Dover, signed a petition 17 April 1729 asking to separate Somersworth from Dover, stating: "the Dwellin places of your Ptitioners are at a great distance from the house of the Publick Worship of God in the Town of Dover where your petitioners live, by which their attendance thereon is rendered very difficult....It is humbly prayed by them that your Excellency .... sett them off as a Parish .... amongst themselves."
Samuel is believed to have moved into Berwick, Maine in the early 1730s, probably shortly after 17 March 1729/30 when he and his wife sold their homestead to Thomas Wallingford. The earliest mention of his name in York County was "Samnuel Corson of Berwick" among a group of men who bought the mill privileges at Great Falls in Somersworth in 1737. On 6 June 1739, Samuel Colson of Berwick, labourer, sold his property to Samuel Lord for 50 pounds. By 1742 Samuel was on the Rochester tax list, and there is no evidence he lived in Rochester before that date.
Samuel signed his "O" mark 19 Sept. 1753 in a deposition with two other men stating the "mark and dry pitch pine standing .... exact location then given .... seen the Letters thereon and have known it to be the reputed Bounds of Dover ... for thirty years past and upwards and further saith not." He received a summons issued to him in February 1756 for defaulting on a note on behalf of Job Clememnts.Judgement was obtained in Portsmouth by Clememnts for the balance plus two pounds, 18 shillings and 6 pence in costs.
He lived probably to 1764, and had moved over the Rochester line into Somersworth. In the First Annual Report of the City of Sommerworth a new road "over ye rocky hills" is described as "running ... to the old way below Samuel Corson's house."
By this time there were two other Samuel Corsons - one Samuel's son removed to Cherryfield, Maine, and his grandson Samuel (son of Zebulon) and in his 30s. His grandson was in the list of inhabitants of Lebanon, ME in 1760 and had purchased the land he was living on by 1766.

Samuel married POTTS, Mary after Apr 1708 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. Mary (daughter of POTTS, Thomas and ROBERTS, Joanna) was born on 6 Jul 1690 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; died in 1775 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. CORSON, Zebulon was born on 17 Jun 1712 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; died on 28 Apr 1786 in Lebanon, York, Maine, USA; was buried in Lebanon, York, Maine, USA.
2. CORSON, Ichabod was born about 1725 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; died in UNKNOWN in Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA.
3. CORSON, Samuel was born on 2 Nov 1719 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; died in 1810 in Cherryfield, Washington, Maine, USA.
4. CORSON, Joannah was born on 15 Jul 1717 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; died in UNKNOWN in Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA.
5. CORSON, Hatevil was born on 9 Dec 1714 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; died after 1791 in Castine, Hancock, Maine, USA.
6. CORSON, Mary was born on 9 Nov 1722 in Stratford, Coos, New Hampshire, USA; died in UNKNOWN in Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA.
7. CORSON, Hannah was born before 1727 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; died in 1801 in Bristol, Lincoln, Maine, USA.
8. COURSON, Charles William was born in 1711.

Samuel married in 1708 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Court Case: 3 Feb 1686; Accused of striking his mother in law
• Court Case: Jun 1686, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; Accused of being in bed naked with Joanna Armitage (both married)

Notes:

The name has had many spellings, but we stick with the present Corson. Cornelius was known as Cosenwhit, Cossen, Cursenwhitt, and Corson. David Allen McNeal theorizes he may have been a Dutch mariner from New York, appearing first in Dover in 1685. He married Hannah Hobbs before 3 Feb 1686.
He was charged on that date with striking his mother-in-law, Hannah Hobbs. A Cornelius Cossen and Joanna Armitage, both married people were found in naked bed together and charged in Suffolk County (Boston) in June 1686. They were ordered to wear signs declaring they were being punished "For Adulterous and Lascivious Behavior to each other" for one hour, and that he was to be whipped with 25 stripes on the naked back and she was to get 20 stripes, or pay 70 pounds each.
Cornelius was listed as a resident lieutenant in Frost's Garrison in Kittery in 1704. Genealogical dictionaries suggest this was a son of Cornelius, but it may well have been the Cornelius who owned the 23 acre grant at Lower Salmon Falls River just above the Frost Garrison. It would have been very easy for him to get there by canoe (five miles at most). Cornelius' grant was on the lower, or south side of the present (1987) bridge from Dover to Eliot.
Research has suggested that the New England Corsons are not related to the New Jersey or South Jersey groups, though the lines may merge farther back than that. Cornelius may have been a descendant of John Cousins who settled on Cousins Island as early as 1627, or may have been associated with a William Cosin who lived in Boston in 1649 (a convenient time frame for Cornelius' birth).

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Cornelius married HOBBS, Hannah Mary on 3 Feb 1685 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. Hannah (daughter of HOBBS, Henry and CANNEY, Hannah) was born in 1661 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; died in 1705 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: //
• Residence: 1957, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA

Notes:

Henry Hobbs (also found as Hobs and Hobes) purportedly came from England about 1650/1655 and settled at Dover, NH where he received land grants in 1657 and 1658. He appears on the July and September 1657 tax list for Dover Neck, Cocheco and Bloody Point, and was assessed 5 shillings each date to be paid in goods at rates set by the selectmen for that year. He appeared again in 1658 with the same assessment. On the list published 22 Sept 1659 he was assessed 19 shillings, 4 pence and an additional 18 shillings, each assessment presumably representing two different pieces of property.
He was deeded land, owned by his father in law, Thomas Canney, 12 July 1661, the land being located between Quamphegan and St. Alban's Cove (Dover). The lot, which had been granted to Canney in 1656 was assigned as an endowment after Henry married Canney's daughter, Hannah.
He was elected 17 Jan 1663 and again on 8 Feb 1667, with others, at a Dover town meeting to serve on the "Jury of Trialls." In 1675 he served on the Grand Jury.
Henry apparently had no problem with trespassing on the early land holdings of the Laconia Company, or of Capt. Mason's heirs in the tract lying between his land and the river. Henry used the land for his own purposes and later laid claim to it. Because of his claim, the town of Dover never granted the tract to anyone. In 1687 the circuit judge of Massachusetts, Samuel Sewall, referred to the cove in the lower extremity of the point as "Hobs his Hole, Quamphegan." It was called that because at high tide the water there was 40 feet deep. It faced down river and the location was used to build and launch small sloops and as a fair haven for seagoing vessels. Henry inherited a large part of his father-in-law's estate and resided in that part of town later known as Sligo. Henry Hobbs (also found as Hobs and Hobes) purportedly came from England about 1650/1655 and settled at Dover, NH where he received land grants in 1657 and 1658. He appears on the July and September 1657 tax list for Dover Neck, Cocheco and Bloody Point, and was assessed 5 shillings each date to be paid in goods at rates set by the selectmen for that year. He appeared again in 1658 with the same assessment. On the list published 22 Sept 1659 he was assessed 19 shillings, 4 pence and an additional 18 shillings, each assessment presumably representing two different pieces of property.
He was deeded land, owned by his father in law, Thomas Canney, 12 July 1661, the land being located between Quamphegan and St. Alban's Cove (Dover). The lot, which had been granted to Canney in 1656 was assigned as an endowment after Henry married Canney's daughter, Hannah.
He was elected 17 Jan 1663 and again on 8 Feb 1667, with others, at a Dover town meeting to serve on the "Jury of Trialls." In 1675 he served on the Grand Jury.
Henry apparently had no problem with trespassing on the early land holdings of the Laconia Company, or of Capt. Mason's heirs in the tract lying between his land and the river. Henry used the land for his own purposes and later laid claim to it. Because of his claim, the town of Dover never granted the tract to anyone. In 1687 the circuit judge of Massachusetts, Samuel Sewall, referred to the cove in the lower extremity of the point as "Hobs his Hole, Quamphegan." It was called that because at high tide the water there was 40 feet deep. It faced down river and the location was used to build and launch small sloops and as a fair haven for seagoing vessels. Henry inherited a large part of his father-in-law's estate and resided in that part of town later known as Sligo

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Henry married CANNEY, Hannah in 1661 in USA. Hannah (daughter of CANNEY, Thomas and UNKNOWN) was born in 1641 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; died on 18 Apr 1720 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married TOUGH, Joane in 1632 in Burrough on the Hill, Leicestershire, England. Joane was born in 1605 in Hill, Gloucestershire, England; died on 10 Mar 1663. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: Signed the Dover Combination
• Great Migration: Thomas Canney was sent to Dover New Hampshire by Captain Mason in 1631 or earlier
• Web Address: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Canney-2
• Residence: Maine, USA

Notes:

Random Notes - In No Order - For Research Purposes - Unproven

From the Wegrzyn Family Tree and owner edaedalus79 - found on Ancestry.com Jan 2013

Following from the "My Day Family Tree" Family Tree and owner jennifer Day1967 found on Ancestry.com Jan 2013

Old Kittery and Her Families Page 33

THOMAS CANNEY bought land of Capt. Wiggin in Dover in 1634. He was living in 1671, and had second wife, Jane, in 1655. He lived on the Pascataqua shore of Newington. Children were THOMAS, born before 1645, married Sarah, daughter of Anthony Taylor of Hampton. She married (2) John Wingate. JOSEPH, married Mary Clement. DAUGHTER, married Henry Hobbs. MARY, married Jeremy Tibbetts."Early Marriages of Strafford County"?Canney, Thomas, b.1600 in Okehampton, England, d. 1678, came to Strawberry Bank (Newington), about 1631, had grant at Dover Neck in 1634, had other grants in 1652 and 1656. Signed Dover Combination in 1640 m. (1) before 1635, Mary Loome, b. 1613, m. (2) before 1655, Jane---

THOMAS KINNE (Kenney, Keeney) of Norfolk, England, according to numerous reported sources, had three sons. Two of them, William and John, have been listed with their descendents in the most recent KEENEY UPDATES. These families populated much of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, as well as New York and midwestern states.THOMAS II, referred to in New Hampshire archives, chose to go by the name of CANNEY, as did his early descendents.The three sons of Sir Thomas did not come to America together. According to Names of Stewards & Servants Sent by John Mason Esq. To Colony of New Hampshire Thomas Canney was listed as the first settle on New Hampshire. His birth date was listed as 1611 at Okelhampton. He settled first at Thompson's Point in Dover.Thomas was sent to America in 1631, got land from Captain Wiggins in 1634, was listed as a freeman (suggesting that he had "worked off' his cost of passage), was taxed several times between 1648 and 1668, and was alive in 1699, although he had lost his sight.Although some sources say that the first wife of Thomas Canney is unknown, later sources list his first marriage to MARY LOOME in 1637 and a second marriage to JANE in 1657.Thomas gave his son JOSEPH real and personal property on 3 December 1669. Later, Thomas Canney III & wife Grace gave land near Thompson's Point, Dover, to his brother Samuel on 12 August 1703. Thomas had earlier, on 20 February 1640, petitioned with several others the Royal Government of Massachusetts "that we may comfortably enjoy the benefits of His Majesty's laws".John Mason, benefactor of Thomas Canney, named this new colony for his own English county Hampshire. The colony was 9th in ratifying the US Constitution, the number required to make it effective. This rugged land of mountains (White Mts.), forests, rivers and lakes, became the largest of the six states of New England. Concord became the capital in 1808, but Portsmouth, Exeter, Hopkintown, Charlestown, DOVER, Hanover and Amherst had their turns as state capital.

The family of HENRY TIBBETS (whose wife was ELIZABETH KENNEY) were very close neighbors of Thomas Canney at Dover Neck. Both Henry & Elizabeth were born in 1596, so it is likely true that Elizabeth was a daughter of Sir Thomas. Henry, who became Dover's lone shoemaker, had come from London to America in 1635 on the ship "JANE". Jeremiah, first son of Henry Tibbets, married Mary Canney, daughter of Thomas and Mary Loome Canney.

May Tibbetts Jarvis, "Henry Tibbetts of Dover NH and some of his Descendants,1635-1939", has 2 full pages on Thomas Canney of Piscatawa and Dover, and his children: Thomas was sent over by Capt. Mason on or before 1631 from western England . He was Constable in 1648 (p. 32, Pioneers of Me & NH 1623-1660 by Charles Henry Pope) on the Grand Jury 1643 & 1656, petty jury 1651(Libby's Dict. ,Part 2, p. 127). He was a freeman in 1653, had landgrants in 1652-55, andwas Selectman, Dover, 1658 April 19 (Scales' Hist,Dover, p.256).

Thomas Canney lived first at Newington on the Piscataqua Shore, and later moved to Dover Neck near the Friends Burial Ground. In 1643 he was one of 12 men of Bloody Point (Newington) who petitioned to have the territory restored to Dover (Mass Archives,3, 438; Scales' History of Dover, p.173). Thomas took a lot from Capt. Wiggin in 1634; Freeman in 1638; first wife not known, but second wife is Jane _____, a big woman who was accused of beating him and daughter Mary and Mary's husband, Jeremy. Old Thomas lost his sight and was excused from "common training." Ref.: NEHGR, 4/1853 et ad passim; "Brackett Genealogy," Herbert I. Brackett (Washington, DC: 1907), p. 49. The LDS Church's unverified Pedigree Resource File(CD 26, Pin 184900) states that Thomas m. Mary Loam (b. ca. 1613) and that Thomas is son of William Kenney/Canney. Also see "Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire," Charles Henry Pope (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1965), p. 32.

Family Notes:Thomas lived in Piscataqua (Portsmouth) in 1631. He bought land in Dover, NH in 1634 from Capt. Wiggins. Living at Bloody Point, he was one of those residents who petitioned about 1642 to be included in the town of Dover, NH. Thomas was a constable in 1648, and a grand juror in 1643 and 1656. His and Mary's lot "butting upon ye high street west, and on ye east nere ye river of Nechechoewannicke, on ye lands of Joseph Austin, south, and uppon ye lands adioyning to ye spring north." They had grants of land in 1652 and 1656; he bought "Thompsons point ," and was then granted 16 acres adjacent "the outmost point turning up to Cochecho.' Thomas sold his 1656 grant, which was bounded on the southeast partly by Nechewanick River, to son-in-law Henry Hobbs in 1661. He married again; his second wife's name was Jane. In Aug 1655.-- "Jane, wife of Thomas Canney presented for beating her son-in-law, Jeremie Tebbets & his wife & her husband." In June 1661--"Tho: Canney of dover desireing the Court to free him from Comon training by reason he hath lost his eiesight, [it] is granted him." In 1671 he removed to York, but went back to Dover where he was last mentioned for intoxication in June 1681.ref: (Part I) Genealogical Items Relating to the Early Settlers of Dover, NH. [Communicated by Mr. Alonzo H. Quint, o f Dover] ref: Historical and Genealogical Registers, New England Historical Genealogical Society, Boston, Samuel G. Drake, Publisher, ©1847- [Vols - 1 - 50 (Oct. 1851 pg 449-456 )]

Husband: Thomas Canney Born: about 1610 in Okehampton, Devon, EnglandMarried: Died: about 1681 in Dover, Strafford Co., NH Father: Mother: Spouses: Wife: Mary Born: about 1613 in England Died: before 1655 in Dover, Strafford Co., NH Father: Mother: Spouses: 01 (F): Mary Canney Born: 1637 in Dover, Strafford Co., NH Died: 02 Jul 1706 in Dover, Strafford Co., NH Souses: Jeremiah Tibbetts 2 (M): Thomas Canney Born: about 1639 Died: 15 May 1677Spouses: 03 (F): Hannah Canney Born: about 1641 in Dover, Strafford Co., NH 1 Died: after 18 Apr 1720 2Spouses: Henry Hobbs///Thomas Canney married Mary Loome Bef 1635/45 at Dover, New Hampshire, USA. Thomas Canney married Jane (?) Bef ORE 1661.

Thomas Canney WAS OF PORTSMOUTH 1631 SENT OVER BY MASON, THE PATENTEE WAS OF DOVER 1644 IN JUNE OF 1661, HIS THEN WIFE JANE, WAS INDICTED FOR BEATING HIM, HIS SON-IN -LAW TIBBETS AND HIS WIFE (MARY). MOM OF HANNAH PROB. MARY LOOME B. 1613. Reference: SAVAGE. He was born in 1600 at Okehampton, England. He died circa 1677/78. Children of Thomas Canney and Mary Loome : Joseph Canney, Mary Canney, Thomas Canney b. Before 1645, d. 1675, Hannah Canney+ b. 164104 (M): Joseph Canney Born: about 1643 Died: 17 Nov 1690

Children
Sarah Canney b: 1632 in Dover, Strafford, Nh, United States of America
Mary Canney b: 1635 in Dover Neck, Strafford, Nh, United States of America
Thomas, Jr. Canney b: ABT 1639 in Dover Neck, Strafford, Nh, United States of America
Hannah Canney b: ABT 1641 in Dover Neck, Strafford, Nh, United States of America
Joseph, Sr. Canney b: ABT 1643 in Dover Neck, Strafford, Nh, United States of America
Phebe Canney b: ABT 1647 in Dover Neck, Strafford, Nh, United States of America

Thomas Keeney II took and used the spelling CANNEY as did his descendents.

"Keeney Update Newsletter" Vol XVII, No. 1 March 2000 pg. 1.
Sir Thomas Kinne was made a baronet by King James I and fled to Holland because of religious persecution under Charles I. Some of his family preceded him to the colonies, first settling near Plymouth Massachusetts and Dover NH. In 1969 Mabel Demers Benchley of Duneden FL wrote: "The line goes back with authority to Sir Thomas Keney of Kings Lynne, Norfolk, England, who had at least three sons:

"Keeney Update Newsletter" Vol XVII, No. 2 Spring 2000 pg. 1.
THOMAS (spelled Caney) b. 1611, settled in Dover NH: m. Elizabeth: he was called 'of the County and town of York 1670': a daughter married into the Tibbets family.

"Keeney Update Newsletter" Vol XVII, No. 3 August 2000
"Old Kittery and Her Families" pg. 33 Thomas Canney bought land of Capt. Wiggin in Dover in 1634. He was living in 1671, and had second wife, Jand, in 1655. He lived on the Pascataqua shore of Newington. Childres were Thomas, born before 1645, married Sarah, d/o Anthony Taylor of Hampton. She married (2) John Wingate. Joseph, married Mary Clement. Daughter, married Henry Hobbs. Mary, married Jeremy Tibbetts.

"Early Marriages of Stafford County"
Canney, Thomas, b 1600 in Okehampton, England, d, 1678, came to Strawberry Bank (Newington), abaout 1631, had grant at Dover Neck in 1634, had other grants in 1652 and 1656. Signed Dover Combination in 1640: m. (1) before 1635, Mary Loome, b. 1613, m. (2) before 1655, Jane- - -

"Keeney Update Newsletter" Vol XVII, No. 3 August 2000
The three sons of Sir Thomas did not come to America together. According to "Nemes of Stewards & Servants Sent by John Mason Esq to Colony of New Hampshire" Thomas Canney was listed as the first settler on New Hampshire. His birth date was listed as 1611 at Okelhampton. He settled first at Thompson's Point in Dover.

Thomas Canney was sent over by Captain Mason on or before 1631. He took a lot of Captain Wiggins in 1634, which in 1647 was bounded thus: - "Butting upon ye high street west, and on ye east nere ye river of Nechechoewannicke, on ye lands of Joseph Austin, south and uppon ye land a dioynin gto ye spring north." He was taxed in 1648 and to 1668, and was alive in 1677. He had grants of land in 1652-56. He was a freeman in 1653. He was a sea captain and some have said he was from northern Scotland and belonged to the Campbell Clan. On 26 June 1661 "The Canney of Dover desireing the Court to free him from Comon training by reason he hath lost his eie sight, [it] is granted him." - Court Records.

Although some sources say that the first wife of Thomas Canney is Unknown, later sources list his first marriage to Mary Loome in 1637 and a second marriage to Jane in 1657

Thomas gave his son Joseph real and personal property on December 3, 1669. Later, Thomas Canney III & wife Grace gave land near Thompson's Point, Dover, to his brother Samuel, on August 12, 1703. Thomas had earlier, on February 20, 1640, petitioned with several others the Royal Government of Massachusetts "that we may comfortably enjoy the benefits of His Majesty's laws".

Canney's marsh is on the Greenland shore of the Great Bay, adjacent
to Canney's creek, and now forms part of the Weeks land. It is so named from Thomas Canney of Dover, who, before 1651, had a grant of nine acres of marsh on the S.W. side of the Great Bay, "bounded on the south running into ye marsh of George Webb's creek, and ye whole marsh in tire till you come out of ye Great Bay at ye north end upon a cove, a neck of land all on ye S.E. side between Geo. Webbs and that. More, two small spots lying by the water side, near to the above marsh, bounded upon ye south west side of ye Great Bay." Thomas and Grace Kenney of Dover, May 4, 1696, conveyed to Leonard Weeks of Greenland "three acres of meadow on the Great Bay, given by Ould Thomas Kenney to his son Thomas, deceased, as appears by a deed to his son Joseph." - Landmarks in Ancient Dover, New Hampshire by Mary P. Thompson

In a deed from Thomas Canney to his son-in-law Henry Hobbs, dated July 12, 1661, the grant to Thomas Canney in 1656 was bounded "southeast partly by Eschew River and partly by a certain parcell of Land yt was sometime possessed by Capt. Masons agent." A confirmation of the grant to Thomas Canney was made in 1661 and contains most the precise words of this deed. This might lead to the hasty conclusion that here Ambrose Gibbons built the Great House at Newichawannock. Instead here was the fish weir of Sagamore Rowls, with adjacent land for planting. Rowls conditionally relinquished his right to it in favor of Humphery Chadbourne, May 8, 1646, confirming a "Bargain of Saile" previously made, "my Right of the Ware at the Fales of the great River of Newichawannock known by the Name o Little John's Fales." Here all the servants of Capt. John Mason obtained fish by a former verbal agreement with Sagamore Rowls, called a "Bargain of Saile."' In 1702 Samuel Canney sold these three acres to the father of Ichabod Plaisted and he confirmed the sale by a deed to said Ichabod in 1722. The three acres were at a place called Hobbs Hole, a deep place in the river, into which Thomas Wallingford launched his ships. Wallingford bought the land of Plaisted, more land of Thomas Hobbs and still more of John Stackpole in 1737, till he owned all the present field between the Sligo Road and the river. When Wallingford's widow lived here the cove where the fish weir and the shipyard had been was called "Madam's Cove". All this belongs more properly to the history of Sligo and Vicinity, which I hope to publish. See N. H. Prov. Deeds VI, 172 and Dover's Old Book of records, p. 81 and York Deeds, 1, 6.

Thomas Canney was sent to Dover New Hampshire by Captain Mason in 1631 or earlier and took a lot near Captain Wiggins in 1634.His wife's name is unknown, but she must have emigrated as part of another family; their first child was born abt 1636.They had five children together.

We have 6 separate lines of descent, all on the Wright (Tucker) side through their three daughters: Jane, Mary, and Hannah.

Thomas was a signer of the Dover Combination. In 1652 he was excused from the court for military training because of impaired eyesight.

After his first wife died, Thomas married againin 1652 to a woman named Jane.Jane was in court twice. Once in 1652 for beating her husband and again in 1655 for beating Thomas' daughter Mary and Mary's husband,

Thomas Canney was sent over by Captain Mason on or before 1631. He took a lot of Captain Wiggins in 1634, which in 1647 was bounded thus: - "Butting upon ye high street west, and on ye east nere ye river of Nechechoewannicke, on ye lands of Joseph Austin, south and uppon ye land adioyning to ye spring north." He was taxed in 1648 and to 1668, and was alive in 1677. He had grants of land in 1652, 56 &c. He was a freeman in 1653. He was a sea captain and some have said he was from northern Scotland and belonged to the Campbell Clan. On 26 June 1661 "The Canney of Dover desireing the Court to free him from Comon training by reason he hath lost his eiesight, [it] is granted him." - Court Records.
In the autumn of 1637, the people formed a "Combination" for government and Rev. George Burdett was placed at the head. In the absence of government, the growing colony found it necessary to organize. "In witness wee have hereto Set our hands the two and twentieth day of October in the Sixteenth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles by the grace of God King of Great Brittain France & Ireland Defender of the Faith &c. Anno. Dom. 1640" Thomas Canney, Richard Pinkham, John Heard, Robert Huggins, William Storer, William Furbur, John Damme and William Pomfret all signed this. The book "By The Name Of Kinnie" states that according to Mabel (Gould) Demers (formerly of #9 Stobie St., Waterville, ME) rearranged and amplified at Dunedin, FL 33528, 988 Philico Drive, 1971 by Mabel Demers Hinckley provides the information that Thomas Canney was a son of Sir Thomas Kinne and that his brothers William and John each spelled their names differently. This has not yet been verified by any other sources.1
Immigration: ABT 1631 Dover, Strafford, NH U. S. A.
Note: He was sent from England to NH by MASON, the patentee. He was in Portsmouth by 1631 and in Dover by 1644. 2
Residence: 1644 Dover, Strafford, NH U. S. A. 2
Residence: 1671 York, York, ME U. S. A. 3
Death: AFT JUN 1681 in Dover Neck, Strafford, NH U. S. A.
Note:
He died at Thompson's Point.

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from GDMNH:

He was "last mentioned in court for intoxication June 1681."

Thomas married UNKNOWN before 1631 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. was born before 1620; died before 1652 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]