> >From: [email protected] > Lewis Cannon's line goes back to Edward Cannon, I , b. Abt 1600 Yorkshire, >England, d. Bef 1673, Lower Norfolk Co., VA. I frankly don't trust my data >on this family; I think I'm missing a generation between Edward I and Lewis. Sammy, You are missing two generations. Edward I had two sons, Thomas and Edward II. Edward II is the one who moved to NC. Your Lewis had to be his grandson. Edward I CAVALIERS & PIONEERS 1. p l69 - Edward Hall - 400 acs Norfolk Co - 18 Sept 1646 for transporting 8 people - including Edward Cannon and wife Ann 2. Edward Cannon and Thomas Allen - 520 acs Norfolk Co - Linhaven Parish 11 March 1652 - adj Mr. Woodhouse Who the mother of the children was is speculation The below was sent to me by listmember Nula with additional notes ...Beverley Fleet published a series of books in which he copied court records for selected periods in different counties. In Lower Norfold Co. VA the period was about 4 years, ca 1652-56. He was brought into court and fined several hundred pounds of tobacco because "his maid servant was pregnant long before he married her". This was about 1653/4. Ann was obviously dead (or divorced) before this THOMAS SON OF EDWARD I WILL of Thomas Cannon of Linhaven - 18 Jan 1684 - prov 1684 - eldest son Edward - plantation I now live - after wife Elizabeth's decease but if she still alive when son Edward is 2l ----my wife his mother --- my divident of land of 250 acs in ye swamp ad to my Father Cornickes's land - provided my brother Edward Cannon --- unto youngest sons Thomas & John my land called Green land 300 acs - to each a cow at age 16 - daughter Sarah - when 12 - Exec brother in law Simon Cornick WIT Edward Cannon, Wm Cornick, Seq, Simond Cornick 3. p 92 - WILL of Elizabeth Cannon wife and Exec of late dec husband Thomas Cannon - 30 Jan 1684 proved by Wm Cornick Jr and Simon Cornick - youngest son John; 2 eldest sons Edward and Thomas ---son John an Indian boy Peter; daughter Sarah - 5 rings and 1 silver bodkin; sister Barbara Cornick - gold ring; Exec father William Cornick and mother-in-law Sarah Cabieito, and brother in law Edward Cannon WIT William Cornick, Jr, Simond Cornick, Ann Corpric EDWARD II son of EDWARD I - WILL of Denis Dolley of Linhaven - 23 Feb 1686 - prov 17 May 1687 by John Poole and Ed Cannon unto Sarah Dolley now wife of Edward Cannon - 150 ac adj Mr. Plumer Bray for want of heirs to return to son John Dolley; daughter Elizabeth Dolley 150 acs; Mary Brock my grandaughter - cow and calf; godson Dennis Capps one heifer; 300 acs including plantation I now live to wife Margaret Dolley plus 700 acs and after her decease to son John Dolley WIT Edward Cannon, John Poule, Edward Brighthouse 21 Sept 1696 May 1701 - WILL of Margaret Dawley - sons William Capps, Richard Capps, and John Dawley; daughters Jeanne Woodhouse, SARAH CANNON, Elizabeth Jones; Dennis Capps son of Henry; Sarah Cannon daughter of EDWARD AND SARAH; Francis Jones and his sister Sarah Exec son John Dawley WIT William Simmons John Walker I have that your Lewis with the question of his wife, was the son of Dennis who was son of Edward II, but I am not sure what the documentation was. Martha