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 voluntarily
agreed 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 bee
not 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 Pinckhame
Steven Teddar Bartholmew Hunt John Upgroufe
William 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 Nute
William Waldern Anthony Emery William Storer
Richard Laham William Furber William Pomfret
Tho: Layton John Crosse Tho: Roberts
George Webb Bartholmew Smith James Rawlins

This is a True Copy compared with ye Originall by me

Edw Cranfield

(Endorsed)

New England N. Hampshire

The Combination for Government by ye people at Pascataq.
1640
recd abt 13 Febr. 82-3(4)

Thomas was a constable in 1648 and on the Grand Jury in 1643 and 1656. On 5 Dec. 1652 a grant was
made to William Furbur, William Wentworth, Henry Langstar and Thomas Canney for "the
accommodations 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 two
freshetts, the southermost freshett cominge out of the Marsh beside the Great Hill at Cochecho, the
northermost 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 were
granted "the whole neck of Land from Sentalbons his Cove to the head of fresh Creeke, and so to Cochecha
Point: excepting a former Grant made to William Pomfrett. Capt. Richard Walderne is to have and injoy the
one halfe of this grant, & the other halfe to the fore mentioned foare men." This was the neck or point
formed by the junction of Fresh Creeke and the Newichawannock. (2) He has a grant of 16 acres of upland
on 6 Dec. 1656 to be laid out adjoining "his perches (purchase) at Tomson's Poynt". This land was laid out
from "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 cartway
from 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".(1) "Canney's Creek" or Cove
is 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".(3) 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 he
was in court for intoxication. Thomas was excused by the court from militia training due to the loss of his
sight.

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 1677
Dover, inv. 25 June 1678
 IV. 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:

(1) Landmarks in Ancient Dover- Mary P. Thompson, Republican Press Assoc., Concord, NH, 1892- p. 252
(2) The Wentworth Genealogy- John Wentworth, LL.D., Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1878- Vol. I, pp. 87-
8
(3) Landmarks in Ancient Dover- article on Canney's Cove
(4) 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. 9
Dec. 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 1677
and 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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disagreeing in dates, of which one, entered by a good penman after all the children were born, is as
follows:

Sarah Cenny was bor 3 of Augst 1667

Martha Cenny (Mathew Canny in earlier record) was bor 5 Febr 1669
Mary Cenny bor January 17 1672
Lydia Cenny 26 August 1673
Thomas Cenny 1 November 1675
Samuel Cenny 24 May 1677

Earlier Entries read:

Thomas Canny his Book god Giv him grace therein to Looke
Thomas Channy his bibell
Thomas Canny mared in octo... one the thirth (third) day 1666

Issue-

 I. Sarah- b. 3 Aug. 1667, m. by 1687 Thomas Roberts Jr.

 3II. MARTHA- b. 5 Feb. 1669/70, m. 30 June 1687 Dover, BENJAMIN NASON (m.2. before 1705
Sarah _____, 3. 27 Dec. 1708 Elizabeth Martin, will 28 June- 11 Aug. 1714 Berwick)
 III. Mary- b. 17 Jan. 1671/2, m. John Twombly (will 18 July 1724)
 IV. Lydia- b. 26 Aug. 1673, m. Tobias Hanson
 V. Thomas- b. 1 Nov. 1675, m. by 1696 Grace ______, d.s.p. 1707
 VI. Samuel- b. 24 May 1677, m. 15 Mar. 1698/9 Sarah Hackett (m.1. Joseph Rankin), will 25 July-1
Sept. 1735

Ref:

Genealogical Dictionary of Maine & New Hampshire- pp.126-7

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