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I recently learned that John Canon, Sr. was actually born in Maryland and went to PA before emigrating to NC. I don't know what relationaship there was between Col. John Canon and John Canon, Sr., but I'm positive that they were related. John Canon, Sr. was the son of James Canon and Mary Boren. The earliest known Canon in the Colonies is Thomas Canon, James' grandfather who arrived in Baltimore County, MD in 1663. He was transported to the Colonies by James Cook, a merchant. A family researcher from about fifty years back as near as I can tell studied the Canon family by corresponding with a Mrs. Harry Evans, a grandaughter of Newton Cannon, a former governor of Tennssee, who was descended from John Canon, Sr. Mrs. Harris stated that the Canons in MD founded branches in VA and in NC while a Daniel Canon, b. 1726, probably in Scotland, emigrated to Charleston, SC and is said to have been one of the first settlers there. If this is so, then he would probably have known Philip Raiford III, my 6th-greatgrandfather who emigrated there in about 1740 and died in Charleston in 1748.
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