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1 Jun 1758. James Thompson to Cannon Cooper for L40, 160 A in Granville County at Alston's corner on Buffalo Creek. Wit: Jos. Person, Randolph Hazlewood. Granville Co. Deed Book C, p.529; cited in Abstracts of the Early Deeds of Granville Co, NC 1746-1765.
28 May 1778. Land grant issued to Kennon Cooper 3450 A in Granville County on waters of Mrtins Creek and Sandy Creek adjoining his line, Phillemon Hawkins jr., Charles R. Eaton, Joseph Rogers and Thomas Christmas, including his own improvement. 400 acres surveyed. Abstracts of Land Entries: Granville County, NC, 1778-1877. p. 4.
19 Jan. 1780. Cannon Cooper was bondsman for the marriage bond of James Cooper and Martha Harrison. Asa Searcy was a witness. Holcomb, Marriages of Granville County, North Carolina, 1753-1868, Genealocial Publishing Co., Balt. 1981. (reprint for Clearfiled Company, Inc., 2003); online, Google Books (accessed, 6 Apr. 2014), p. 70.
Kannon Cooper is referred to as “my cousin, son of Benjamin Cooper” in the 1741 will of John Cannon. Surry Co. Will Book 9, p. 388.
Will of Kannon Cooper, Franklin Co. Wills & Inventories A, p. 167
16. Cannon (Kennon) COOPER was born in 1737. He died in 1794 in Franklin
>CO, NC. 1741 Will of John Cannon, bk 9:388 Southwark Parish, Surry CO, VA,
>names
>"my cousin, Cannon Cooper, son to Benjamin Cooper - 20 shillings for
>schooling." Either the 20 shillings was not enough money to become
>literate or they spent the money unwisely, because Cannon Cooper could
>never write his name and other people spelled it like it sounded.
>Cannon settled first in the James River section of Virginia just prior to
>the Revolutionary War. Kennon Cooper bought 160 acres on Buffalo Creek,
>Granville CO, NC. Will Book Franklin CO. A:167 dated August 29, 1794.
>He was married to Sarah BAKER in 1758. Cannon (Kennon) COOPER and Sarah
>BAKER had the following children:
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