Re: Bogus genealogies for Richard Kennon & John Cannon of Henrico Co., VA, 1600s
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Re: Bogus genealogies for Richard Kennon & John Cannon of Henrico Co., VA, 1600s
Sue Perkins 9/30/08
I will email you what I have on the children of Richard Kennon of Conjurer's Neck, VA.
The information I have on him is from Burwell Laird Reid, "Kennon History," typed ms. in NC State Library, no date, p. 1, and "Genealogy of the Baskerville Family and Some Allied Families Including The English Descent from 1266 A.D., by Patrick Hamilton Baskervill, Richmond, VA: Wm. Ellis Jones' Sons, Inc., 1912, pp. 147-149, as mentioned in Vol. 3 "The Kennon Family," William & Mary Quarterly, pp. 267-268,which said that Richard Kennon is considered "the Immigrant." The first surviving record of him is 01 Apr 1670 Henrico Co., VA; he was joint patentee with Francis Eppes, Joseph Royall, and George Archer of 2,827 acres of land. His land was called "Conjuror's Neck," about 5 miles below Petersburg, which was the family home for generations.Robert Bowman deeded him a plantation, Roxdale, in Henrico Co. on 01 Apr 1679. His son William received this in Richard's will.
"In 1680 Richard Kennon lived at Bermuda Hundred, where he was said to have had a large warehouse; he was a merchant there and had a half acre with houses on it. He also owned a mill at Pucketts. (p. 148)
"In 1685 he was factor and attorney for Mr. Wm. Paggen, a merchant of London, who had extensive trade in Virginia. To provide supplies for his store-house at Bermuda Mr. Kennon visited England frequently. In a grant of land to Mrs. Francis Eppes, the mother of his wife, in 1680 she was allowed to count his coming into the colony 8 times, for which a grant of 400 A. of land was made. It was the policy of Virginia at that time to encourage immigration by allowing 50 acres every time a person came into Virginia, and it would seem from this grant that Mr. Kennon crossed the ocean as many as 8 times prior to 1680." (p. 148).
"In 1691 he made a deed of gift to his children naming Mary, Elizabeth, Martha, William, and Sarah. Judith and Richard were not mentioned, and were evidently born after that time.
"He died in 1696, and his will dated August 6th, 1694, was probated August 20, 1696." (p. 148)
I do not know if I have a connection to the Kennons, or not.The connection might be to a well-known Cannon family that lived in Henrico Co. when Richard Kennon did, or it might be to some unknown VA Cannon family.My ancestor was Simcock Cannon (b c1725/1730 probably VA; d aft 1803 perhaps NC), who married Jane Rudd of Chesterfield Co., VA, and was found in Amelia Co. in 1751 and in Prince Edward Co. after that (probably in an area of Amelia that became Prince Edward).He also had land in Lunenburg Co. & Charlotte Co. before moving to SC and GA.His name is written as Kennon in some of these VA records and his son Russell's name also is spelled Kennon in some VA records and the 1790 SC census (Russell's apparent brother William was also shown as Kennon in that census).Simcock (and his in-laws) lived quite near some of the well-known Kennon family, but he also lived near some Cannons in the same counties.To make things more difficult, the names of the well-known Kennons were sometimes spelled Cannon.I can't tell to what degree semi-literate clerks have muddied the waters of Simcock's surname spelling.Right now I'm having a researcher in Virginia try to get further with this problem than I have been able to.While I have doubted that Simcock was of the well-known Kennon family, I have not been able to rule that out.
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