Col. John Canon and Jeannette [Unk]

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Husband Col. John Canon ^{1 2}

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         Father: [Father] Canon (      -      )
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Wife Jeannette [Unk] ¹

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1 M John Canon ¹

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2 M Samuel Canon ¹

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3 M William Canon ¹

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4 M Joshua Canon ^{1 2}

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5 F Jane Canon ^{3 4}

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            AKA: Jean Canon 1
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         Spouse: Rev. Robert Patterson (1773-1854) 1 3 4
           Marr: 27 Aug 1801 3 4

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6 F Anne Canon ¹

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7 F Margaret Canon ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Col. John Canon

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He was the founder of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.

Though Findley, "Whiskey Insurrection," 95, says, writing in 1794, that Canon was from Chester County, this is doubtful; for there is some evidence that he came to Washington County, Pennsylvania, from Virginia. He is first found in what afterward became Washington County in February, 1774, when he and Henry Taylor were appointed by the Westmoreland County Court as road-viewers. Already well known to us as a justice of the Augusta County and Yohogania County Courts, it must be inferred that he was quite a partisan of the Virginia jurisdiction. The office of sub-lieutenant of the militia, from which he derived his title, was abolished in 1783, but on Oct. 6, 1784, he was commissioned a justice of the peace and of the courts, and recommissioned Aug. 24, 1790, holding that office till his death. He had acquired Virginia rights to the several tracts afterwards surveyed by Pennsylvania as Abington, Mount Airy, and Canon Hill, containing nearly twelve hundred acres; on parts of the two former he laid out Canonsburg; the first lot sold March 15, 1787, about which time he with others brought about the establishment of a High School in Canonsburg, which in 1791 was organized as an academy, incorporated in 1794, with himself as one of the trustees. He died just before the academy he had aided to found became Jefferson College. To but a slight extent involved in the Whiskey Insurrection, on July 26, 1791, he was present, with Bradford, Marshel, and others, at the opening of the captured mail at Canonsburg, and also signed the call for the Braddock's Field rendezvous.

A writer in the Presbyterian Magazine, February, 1857, says, "Col. Canon, the founder of Canonsburg, was an active, intelligent, and gentlemanly man. He died when but little past the meridian of life, leaving a widow and several children. Mrs. Canon was regarded as the lady of the place, and deservedly; for she was eminently pious, friendly, and generous. Her house was the seat of hospitality, the favorite resort of Christian ministers and serious students."

1 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 226.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 156.

3 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 315.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 372.