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CHART OF DELAWARE CANNS, 8.5"x11" by Howard E Cann Jr
CHART OF BALTIMORE CANNS, 8.5"x11" by Howard E Cann Jr
Howard E Cann Jr
7864 Old Westover Rd
Westover Md 21871
Phone 410-651-2845 hcann@juno.com
FAX 410-651-2710
The name Cann is derived from Caen, a town in Normandy, France,
whose ruler, Robert, Duke of Caen, joined with his friend,
neighbor, and leige lord, William, Duke of Normandy in his
successful invasion and conquest of England in 1066. As a result
he received lands in what is now the Bristol area, and Gloucester
County, England. In the ensuing years of the Middle Ages it is
assumed that fortunes of the Cann family ebbed and flowed with
the uncertainties of the political tides:-The War of the Roses,
the continual conquests in France, and other military and
political adventures.
(Doomesday Book.)
From the obscurity of time emerges a certain Sir Thomas
Cann, the High Sheriff of Gloucester County who was Knighted by
King James, 1, in the early 1600s.
(Dictionary of National Biography. Brown)
Another controversial figure of the turbulent times was John
Cann, a noted preacher, teacher, translator and printer of the
Bible, and author of many religious treatises. The most famous
of which was; "A Necessity of Separation from the Church of
England." He preached a Reformed Baptist faith, and after the
death of John Hubbard, Cann was chosen their leader in London.
After a stormy year or so he was banished to Amsterdam for
preaching against the Established Church of England, where he
succeeded Henry Ainsworth as pastor of the English Independent
Church. The calendar of State Papers, June 9, 1641, shows
that John Cann wasgranted an exclusive license for seven years
"To print a Bible with Annotations, being his own work, and that
no man unless he be appointed by him, may print his said notes,
whether already printed, or to be printed." It is interesting to
note that this is among the earliest of copyrights.
(from the book John Cann of Delaware).
Rev John Cann's grandson, John Cann arrived in Newcastle
Delaware in 1675 on the ship Griffin with a group of Quakers
seven years before the arrival of William Penn. John Cann's
house in New Castle still stands. His estate and farm is now the
Delaware Park Raceway. He was one of the early governors of
Delaware. He and his sons were the second largest land owners in
Delaware.
In the colonies were other Canns but they are not as well
researched or documented as John Cann of Delaware. William Cann
settled on an Island in Salem, Mass. Harbour in 1628. His
ancesters migrated to Nova Scotia after the revolution and
were involved in Ship building etc. Jane and Cate Cann arrived
in Kent County Maryland in 1665. In 1623, in early
Virginia, Canns were found. At time Maryland did not exist.
It was Virginia. There were traders and settlers in that area
before the Marylanders arrived. One place was at Port Tobacco
on the Potomac River. It was a Indian trading post long before
the whites came. No history is found about it before the
Marylanders arrived. They took over houses that were already
there and used local English pilots to guide the ships to these
existing ports. "Cannvania" was name of an estate near Port
Tobacco. The new settlers had decree from the king granting them
tittle to all lands. They used force take over their "leg
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