Cannon Brown (abt. 1770 - 1831)

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Biography

Some public records have his name as Kannon Brown.

Please see http://www.momslookups.com/generations/brown.html for more information on his family, including a critique of an unpublished family history document from 1909. This document identifies his parents as Thomas Canon Brown and Betsy Buckner, but they have not been documented yet from contemporary records.

He first appears in Rowan County NC records in the 1790s, and is in the Rowan Co. census records from 1800 to 1830.

Rowan Co. deed book 16:609, Aug. 22, 1798: Gasper Rowland lets Kannon Brown have 112 acres near the head of a branch in the old line of Jacob Keller, next Gasper Sean and Daniel Lewis. Proved May 1799. [This tract is on the east side of Bear Creek, just south of Mocksville. Gasper Rowland (Roland) was his wife's grandfather.]

He is listed as over 45 in the 1820 census, but between 50 and 60 in the 1830 Rowan County census, fixing his birth as between 1770 and 1775.

His will was written 1826 as Cannon Brown, proved February 1831 Rowan Co. NC. It names wife Catherine, daughters Sarah Helper, Polly Jones, Elizabeth Clemin [sic; should be Clement] and Ann Brown, sons Jesse Brown and Thomas Brown, also names Daniel H. Brown but does not state his relationship.

From summary of Rowan County Loose Estates Papers, 1753-1850, Rowan Co. Register vol. 9, #2, Brown entries:

Cannon/Kannon Brown [4 pp, faded] Sept. 1831. Year's provision for widow and family filed by Samuel Van Etten, John Maxwell, Benj. March. It was set aside with a new order to file [too dim to read].

The collection of loose estate records in the NC State Archives in Raleigh contains two documents, both of them seemingly inventories of goods on hand at the time of his death. Neither is completely legible, but enough can be made out to indicate the content: "twelve bushels of wheat, fifteen pounds of coffee, one hundred pounds of ? cotton, one milk cow, etc." This document is dated September 1831 and signed by George Miller and James F... [illegible]. The other one itemizes among other things, 25 pounds of coffee, 25 pounds brown sugar, 2 pounds pepper, 1 pound ginger, two and a half gallons molasses, two hundred pounds bacon, three hundred pounts pork, and is signed by Samuel Van Otten [Van Eaton?], John Maxwell and Benjamin March.

Sources

Rowan County NC census, deed, and will records.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Elizabeth Harris for creating WikiTree profile Brown-24300 through the import of Brown_Chinn_for_WikiTree.ged on Dec 5, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Elizabeth and others.