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Cornelius Cannon

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Bill Nye — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 142 
  • Father:
  • John Cannon 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Hathaway   
  • Birth Date:
  • 18 Jul 1711 
  • Birth Location:
  • Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • BY 12 Dec 1752 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. New Braintree, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mehitable Haskell
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Jan 1732/1733 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Susanna Cannon

  Kezia Cannon (Ahnentafel No:71 )

• Sources for Cornelius Cannon

  • ¹ Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, FHL No. 7010711, Image 21, Birth record for Cornelius Cannon.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rochester, Vol. 2, p. 67, Marriage of Cornelius Cannon and Mehitabal Haskall.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dartmouth, Vol. 2, p. 102, Marriage of Cornelius Cannon and Mehitable Haskall, at Rochester.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Hardwick, Vol. 1, p. 24, Birth records for children of Cornelius and Mehitable Cannon.
  • ⁵ Worcester County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1731-1881, Case No. 9821, Probate file for Cornelius Cannon.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 760.
  • ⁷ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 293.