AUSTIN, Captain Matthew

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: Original settler of York, Maine; lived through Candlemas Massace
• Occupation: York, York, Maine, USA; Innkeeper

Matthew married LITTLEFIELD, Mary in 1675 in Massachusetts, USA. Mary (daughter of LITTLEFIELD, John and WAKEFIELD, Patience) was born in Wells, York, Maine, USA; died after 7 Oct 1701 in Wells, York, Maine, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. AUSTIN, Mary was born in 1687 in Wells, York, Maine, USA; was christened on 10 Apr 1694 in Notre-Dame-des-Anges, Quebec (Urban Agglomeration), Quebec, Canada; died on 3 Oct 1755 in Montréal, Montréal (Urban Agglomeration), Quebec, Canada.
2. AUSTIN, Matthew was born about 1684 in Wells, York, Maine, USA; died on 11 Aug 1704 in York, York, Maine, USA.
3. AUSTIN, Patience was born in 1688 in York, York, Maine, USA; died on 3 Nov 1735 in York, York, Maine, USA.
4. AUSTIN, Isabella was born in 1675 in York, York, Maine, USA; died on 16 Jun 1721 in York, York, Maine, USA.
5. AUSTIN, Elizabeth was born between 1690 and 1692 in Wells, York, Maine, USA; died in 1758 in York, York, Maine, USA.
6. AUSTIN, Ichabod was born in 1694 in York, York, Maine, USA; died on 19 Sep 1718 in York, York, Maine, USA.
7. AUSTIN, Joseph was born in 1700 in York, York, Maine, USA; died on 4 Feb 1799 in York, York, Maine, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: Immigrant; Early settler of York Maine
• End of Line: Yes
• Occupation: Weaver

Matthew married CANNEY, Jane in 1645 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. Jane (daughter of CANNEY, Thomas and UNKNOWN) was born about 1636 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; died on 2 Jul 1706 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• End of Line: Yes

Francis married BLAND, Isabel in 1615 in England. Isabel (daughter of (SMITH), John Bland and Living) was born in 1598 in England; died on 9 Jul 1692 in England. [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]

John + Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]