Landmarks in Ancient Dover, New Hampshire by Mary P. Thompson, 
Durham, N.H. ©1892, Printed by the Republican Press Association, 
Concord, N.H. 


LANDMARKS: Canney's Marsh and Creek,Canney's Island

NAMES:  JOHNSON, John; JOHNSON, Prudence;  WEEKS, J. CLEMENT; WILLEY, Thomas; 
	CANNEY, Thomas; WEEKS, Leonard; WEEKS, Samuel; WEEKS, Mathias;  
	WEBB, George; KENNEY, Grace;  KENNY, Thomas, Sr.; FFURBER, William; 
	JOHNSON, John; JOHNSON, Prudence; WEEKS, Jonathan, WEEKS, Joseph; 	

	Canney's Island, otherwise Kenney's.  This island is mentioned Ap. 
23, 1743, when John and Prudence Johnson of Durham conveyed to Samuel 
Weeks two acres of salt marsh in Greenland, bounded on the S.E. side by 
Wille's creek, on the S.W. side by Kenes creek, and on the N.W. by an 
island called Kenies Island.  Samuel Weeks, in his will of Sept 15, 1745, 
gives his son Mathias "the island lying by the Great Bay called Kenney's 
island."  This island is about half a mile above Winnicot river, and is 
now owned by Mr. J.Clement Weeks.  It is a finely wooded upland of 20 acres
on the shore of Great Bay, between Canney's creek and Willey's creek, 
which at high tide surround it with water.  It is now merely called "the
island" without any prefix. Notwithstanding its old name, this island 
originally formed part of a grant to Thomas Willey, which was adjacent to 
that of Thomas Canney.  Leonard Weeks conveyed to his son Samuel, Ap 23, 
1706, "all the mash (marsh) and Island of upland" which he bought of 
Thomas Willey. (See Willey's Spring.)				
	 Canney's marsh is on the Greenland shore of the Great Bay, adjacent 
to Canney's creek, and now forms part of the Weeks land.  It is so named 
from Thomas Canney of Dover, who, before 1651, had a grant of nine acres of 
marsh on the S.W. side of the Great Bay, "bounded on the south running into 
ye marsh of George Webb's creek, and ye whole marsh in tire till you come 
out of ye Great Bay at ye north end upon a cove, a neck of land all on ye 
S.E. side between Geo. Webbs and that.  More, two small spots lying by the 
water side, near to the above marsh, bounded upon ye south west side of ye 
Great Bay."  Thomas and Grace Kenney of Dover, May 4, 1696, conveyed to 
Leonard Weeks of Greenland "three acres of meadow on the Great Bay, given 
by Ould Thomas Kenney to his son Thomas, deceased, as appears by a deed to 
his son Joseph."  Leonard Weeks conveyed to his son Joseph, Ap. 3, 1706, 
one acre and a half of salt marsh, lying westward of Canney's creek, so 
called.  And, Ap. 23, 1706, he conveyed to his son Samuel Weeks "the marsh 
I bought that was Cannyes, that lyeth next to Wm. Ffurber's marsh, excepting
the cove and flatts belonging to it, which I have given to my son Jonathan 
Weeks, and one acre and half of salt marsh and flatts that I have given to 
my son Joseph, lying by the westward side of Cannies Crike."  This creek is 
again mentioned Ap. 23, 1743, when John and Prudence Johnson conveyed to 
Samuel Weeks two acres of salt marsh bounded "on the southwest side on 
Kenes creek."										

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