Cannon Family Genealogy

Links on this site

Original LETTER by Noble Cannon
This letter formed the basis for my family's research.

WILLS
Transcribed wills of some of our ancestors can be found here. Including one of my wife's great-grandfathers who willed one-third of his vegetables to his wife.

PHOTO ARCHIVES
Vintage photos of various ancestors.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Folks who have shared info that contributed to this site.

Remember that the information on this site is not guaranteed accurate. Take it with a grain of salt as we do not have rock solid evidence of everyone's vital info, especially distant relations several tiers back.

This site also focuses on the following surnames: Canfield, Leggett, Paisley, Francis, Murphy, and Day. We do this simply because these are the lines about which we have the most information.

"My" branch of the Cannon family is descended from Moses Cannon. He, along with his wife Rachel, is listed as a resident of Harford County, Maryland in the census of 1776.

Moses' son Erasmus migrated to Harrison County, Ohio with his wife, Mary Bowman, and children in about 1815. Erasmus is my ggggg-grandfather. I currently live about an hour north of the plot of land originally settled by Erasmus and his family.

I've been fortunate enough to fill in most of the blanks between myself and Moses, but unfortunately can't go back any farther than him. If you have any information about Moses, his wife Rachel, or any of their ancestors, please drop me a line. I'd love to hear from you!

To navigate this site, simply use the links on the left. The top most link of family names takes you to the surname page, from there you can click to the alphabetical list of individual names.

Other Genealogy Sites

Cyndi's List
The Biggest and Best All-in-One Genealogy Site
Over 75,000 links and growing!
Incredible... but can be a bit overwhelming.

Google

Ask Jeeves

HotBot

Not genealogy per se, just some great
search engines.

A Great Site
Devoted to Another
line of Cannons

Genealogy On-Line
A well-organized site.
Check it out.

Ancestry.com
A lot of info is searchable and available
for free on this site. If you're willing to shell out a few bucks for
membership, all of their databases are
available to you.

Dave Wilks' Free GED-COM
Server
In plain English... a huge database where
people make their family trees available
online.

The Golden Lyon II
Genealogy Research
A very well-researched site detailing some
Cannon lines from the Delmarva
(Delaware-Maryland-Virginia) area.