CANNEY
1. THOMAS-
Thomas was sent to Dover by Capt. Mason about 1631 and bought a lot from Capt. Wiggins in 1634.Thomas was one of the signers of the Dover Combination in 1640:
Whereas sundry Mischeifes and inconveniences have befaln us, and more and greater may in regard of want of Civill Government, his Gratious Matie haveing hitherto setled no Order for us to our Knowledge:Wee whose names are underwritten being Inhabitants upon the River Piscataquack have voluntarilyagreed to combine our Selves into a Body Politique that wee may the more comfortably enjoy the benefit of his Maties Lawes. And do hereby actually ingage our Selves to Submit to his Royal Maties Lawes together with all such Orders as shalbee concluded by a Major part of the Freemen of our Society , in case they beenot repugnant to the Lawes of England and administred in the behalfe of his Majesty. And this wee have Mutually promised and concluded to do and so to continue till his Excellent Matie shall give other Order concerning us. In Witness wee have hereto Set our hands the two & twentieth day of October in the Sixteenth yeare of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles by the grace of God King of Great Brittain France & Ireland Defender of the Faith &c Annoq Domi: 1640. John Follett Samuel Haines Robert Nanney John Underhill William Jones Peter Garland Philip Swaddow William Jones Richard PinckhameSteven Teddar Bartholmew Hunt John UpgroufeWilliam Bowden Thomas Canning John Wastill John Phillips John Heard Tho: Dunstar John Hall Fran: Champernoon Abel Camond Hansed Knowles Henry Beck Edward Colcord Robert Huggins Henry Lahorn Thom. Larkin Edward Starr Richard Waldern James NuteWilliam Waldern Anthony Emery William Storer Richard Laham William Furber William Pomfret Tho: Layton John Crosse Tho: RobertsGeorge Webb Bartholmew Smith James RawlinsThis is a True Copy compared with ye Originall by me Edw Cranfield (Endorsed) New England N. HampshireThe Combination for Government by ye people at Pascataq.1640recd abt 13 Febr. 82-3
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)Thomas was a constable in 1648 and on the Grand Jury in 1643 and 1656. On 5 Dec. 1652 a grant wasmade to William Furbur, William Wentworth, Henry Langstar and Thomas Canney for "theaccommodations of fresh Creeke, for the erecting and settinge up of a sawmill. The bounds of the Timber are from the head of the Creeke from the flowinge of the tide three miles up into the woods betwixt the twofreshetts, the southermost freshett cominge out of the Marsh beside the Great Hill at Cochecho, thenorthermost freshett boundinge Captaine Wiggins & Mr. Bradstreet's grant at Quomphegon, and also what
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Timber lyes in common that they shall make use of betwixt fresh Creeke and Cochecha: They are to pay six pounds p yeare so lone as they continue possession thereof." Also on the same date the same men weregranted "the whole neck of Land from Sentalbons his Cove to the head of fresh Creeke, and so to CochechaPoint: excepting a former Grant made to William Pomfrett. Capt. Richard Walderne is to have and injoy theone halfe of this grant, & the other halfe to the fore mentioned foare men." This was the neck or pointformed by the junction of Fresh Creeke and the Newichawannock. (
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) He has a grant of 16 acres of uplandon 6 Dec. 1656 to be laid out adjoining "his perches (purchase) at Tomson's Poynt". This land was laid outfrom "the outmost point turning up to Cochecho 50 rods to the long creek westward below Tomson's poynt butting on Fore river, thence running three score and ten rods up the long crek side, reserving a cartwayfrom the woods to the water side at the head of the creek, and up Cochecho river three score and ten rods,and thence on a straight line over to the bound at the head of the long creek".(
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) "Canney's Creek" or Coveis an inlet from the Pascataqua River on the eastern shore of Newington and was one of the bounds of Ancient Dover being first mentioned in 1657 when the lower bounds of Dover were defined as running"from Kenney's Creeke to Hogsty Cove".(
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) In 1652 he was the adminstrator of Henry Plympton's estate.In 1671 he had moved to York but then went back to Dover. He was last mentioned in June 1681 when hewas in court for intoxication. Thomas was excused by the court from militia training due to the loss of hissight.
Issue-
I. ______- m. Matthew Austin
II. Mary- m. 1655 Jeremy Tibbetts
2III. THOMAS
- m.
SARAH
TAYLOR
(m.2.
JOHN
WINGATE
, 3. Richard Paine), d. 15 May 1677Dover, inv. 25 June 1678IV. Hannah- b. 1641, m. Henry Hobbs
V. Joseph- m.1. Mary _____ (d.s.p.), 2. 25 Dec. 1670 Mary Clements, 3. by 1673 Mary Dam (m.2. 22
Nov. 1701 William Harford), adm. 17 Nov. 1690 Dover
Ref:
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Landmarks in Ancient Dover
- Mary P. Thompson, Republican Press Assoc., Concord, NH, 1892- p. 252(
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The Wentworth Genealogy
- John Wentworth, LL.D., Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1878- Vol. I, pp. 87-8(
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Landmarks in Ancient Dover
- article on Canney's Cove(
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Notable Events in the History of Dover, NH
- George Wadleigh, 1913- original in the PRO, London
Thomas Canney of Dover, New Hampshire
- Bill Principe, NH Genealogical Record- Vol. 19 (Jan. 2002), pp. 1-7
2I. THOMAS
(
THOMAS 1
)m. 3 Oct. 1666
SARAH
TAYLOR
(m.2.
JOHN WINGATE
(m.1.
MARY
NUTTER
(d.c.1676), d. 9Dec. 1687 Dover), m.3. Richard Paine)d. 15 May 1677 Dover inv. 25 June 1678 Dover Thomas lived at Thompson's Point on Dover Neck at the mouth of the Cochecho River. He died in 1677and his widow was taxed that year.Charles Thornton Libby wrote a letter which was published in the NEHGR in Apr. 1912 (Vol.66, p. 188)concerning Thomas' bible:
A 1619 Norton and Bill bible, which has come down through five Joshuas Wingate, having come to the first Wingate with his second wife, the widow Canney, contains three records of her Canney children,
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