[edit] Raw notes for lookups
CHECK JSTOR, NYT, Rootsweb
Look up cooch? chron? "Silent Woman" p 323 tavern Narvaez spelling
ADD For more on punishment of Johnson, go to first page of kidnapping chapter in Collins' 1804 book. Pillory horrific, nailing ears; and 60 lashes under revision instead of 30.
Write to jane burt, historical marker woman (tell her JJ was son in law, ask permission for photo)
Search here for "Hanley / Hanlen" to get genealogy also "first husband" http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/History/ehe.html#chp24
search here: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19146/19146-8.txt Hulda Bruinton
"Who is your father?" "Joe Johnson." "That man," murmured Levin. "Oh, no, it is too horrible." "Do not hate me. Be a little kind, if you do, for I have watched you here hours, almost hoping you never might wake up, so beautiful and pure you looked asleep." "And you--that's the way you look, Huldy. How kin you look so an' be his daughter." "I am not his child, thank God! He is my stepfather." "What is your name, then, besides Huldy?" The girl blushed deeply and hesitated. Her fine gray eyes were turned upon her beautiful bare feet, white as the river that flashed beneath the window. "Hulda Bruinton," she said, swallowing a sigh. "Bruinton--where did I hear that name?" Levin asked; "some tale has been told me, I reckon, about him?" "Yes, everybody knows it," Hulda said, in a voice of pain; "he was hanged for murder at Georgetown when I was a little child." Levin could not speak for astonishment. "I might as well tell you," she said, "for others will, if I conceal it. I can hardly remember my father. My mother soon married Joe and neglected me, and Aunt Patty, my grandmother, brought me up. She was kind to me, but, oh, how cruel she can be to others!"
Endnotes from TEH
- [3] The skull of Ebenezer Johnson can be seen at Fowler & Wells' Museum, New York, with the bullet-hole through it. There, also, are the skulls of Patty and Betty Cannon. (Interesting in context of material removed today-
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- The skull of Patty Cannon is oddly enough kept in a red hat-box in the main office of the Dover Public Library in Dover, Delaware.[1]seems unbelievable but if true, is relevant to the article -- is a claim made by highly-lurid Okonowicz book. Call Marston Room, Dover PL, Dover Public Library 73 Locust St. Dover, NH 03820 (603)516-6050 Mon-Wed 9-8:30, Thurs-Fri 9-5:30 & Sat 9-1 Find out if Dover got it from the F&W Museum mentioned above.
- [5] Frederick Douglass, afterwards Marshal of the District of Columbia, was at this time a slave boy twelve years old, living about twenty miles from the scene of this conversation.
- [7] The origin of Patty Cannon is in doubt; a pamphlet published near her time gives it as above, with strong circumstantial embellishments, yet there are neighbors who say she was of Delaware and Maryland stock--a Baker and a Moore. The weight of tradition is the other way.
- [8] This incident is fully related in "Niles's Register" of April 25, 1829 (No. 919 of the full series), page 144, where also is a contemporary account of Patty Cannon's arrest. The date of the exposure in this story is transposed from April to October. She was to have been tried in October, but died in May, about six weeks after her arrest. So she WAS arrested in March, as I thought.
http://www.iptv.org/series.cfm/11305/ep:104 URL for "wickedest woman in the world"
Find source; is it Collins?: According to ________ he left the area but Patty Cannon continued to run the kidnapping enterprise.
What is this reference for? The Domestic Slave Trade of the United States Winfield Hazlitt Collins, 1904, at p. 91. Accessed August 29, 2007.
[edit] Lucretia P., 1841
http://laurajames.typepad.com/clews/2006/10/friday_links.html?cid=82599195#comment-82599195 provides catalog price of in $1250 in 2006 and 2007 by this vendor
http://www.americanaexchange.com/NewAE/aemonthly/review.asp?f=2&page=1&id=148&m=2&y=2005
Add another footnote to article about fictionalizing: Women Who Kill By Ann Jones p. 384, the footnote for pp 111-113 on "fictional murderesses", says Lucretia P was rewritten as two different pieces on Ann Walters: (saved as graphic on disk) NOT the same as the rewrites identified by other commentator.
[edit] PC:Woman of Mystery
PURCHASED Patty Cannon, Woman of Mystery Giles, Ted Bookseller: Midnight Books (Apopka, FL, U.S.A.) Bookseller Rating: 5-star rating Price: US$ 10.49 Quantity: 1 Shipping within U.S.A.: US$ 3.00 [Rates & Speeds] Add Book to Shopping Basket Book Description: Privately Printed. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. 95 pp. Illustrated. Biography of notorious Maryland outlaw Patty Cannon. Interior clean front to back. Binding tight. Corners sharp. Minimal edge wear on cover. Bookseller Inventory # 101170
[edit] PC Administers Justice
Patty Cannon Administers Justice or Joe Johnson's Last Kidnapping Exploit: A Tale of the Del-Mar-Va Peninsula in its... (Hardcover) by R. W. Messenger (Author) 1 used & new available from $25.00
- Hardcover
- Publisher: Tidewater Publishers. (1926)
- ASIN: B000NRNSYU
$25.00 + $3.99shipping Used - Very Good Seller: elizabethhaw Comments: Publisher: Tidewater Publishers. Date of Publication: 1926 Binding: Cloth Edition: Reprint Condition: Near Fine/Very Good Description: 51/2" x 81/4" 317p. Patty Cannon along with Joe Johnson ran a tavern on the DE-MD state line. They were in the business of stealing and selling slaves, beating people, and carrying on all sorts of nefarious activities. Great reading of an interesting time.
Patty Cannon Administers Justice; or, Joe Johnson's Last Kidnapping Exploit. Messenger, R.W. Bookseller: Michael J. Osborne Books LLC (Columbia, MD, U.S.A.) Bookseller Rating: 4-star rating Price: US$ 10.00 US$ 5.50 Book Description: J.W. Stowell Printing Co., Federalsburg, MD:, 1926. Frontis, 317p. 20cm. First edition. Brown cloth, titling in black on the front cover and spine. Ex hospital library; edges rubbed, fraying, spine faded, staining; hinges cracked; front free end paper loose; first few pages lightly foxed. In fair condition. Bookseller Inventory # 3684
Patty Cannon Administers Justice or Joe Johnson's Last Kidnapping Exploit R.W. Messenger Bookseller: A New Life Books (Bristol, VA, U.S.A.) Bookseller Rating: 5-star rating Price: US$ 10.83[Convert Currency] Book Description: Tidewater Publishers, Cambridge, Maryland, 1960. A Hard Cover. Book Condition: Good. Apx 51/2" X 8". Dust Jacket has been cut. 1/2 glued on front endpaper and 1/2 glued on back endpaper. Writing on front endpaper. Prior owner stamp inside of book. A Clean & Tight Text. Bookseller Inventory # 007107
[edit] Ross Mansion
[1] ROSS MANSION QUARTER SEAFORD, SUSSEX COUNTY, DELAWARE HISTORIC STRUCTURE REPORT For David Roselle, President University of Delaware BY David L. Ames, Urban Affairs Robert D. Bethke, English James Curtis, Winterthur Program J. Ritchie Garrison, Museum Studies Bernard L. Herman, Urban Affairs, Committee Chair James Newton, Black American Studies Rebecca J. Siders, Urban Affairs William H. Williams, Parallel Program July 1992
p 43, refs 44 Appendix: The "Patty Cannon Gang" [The exploits of Patty Cannon and her "gang"--in fact and popular lore of Sussex County, Delaware, and nearby Maryland--have been subject to various tellings (Munroe 1984:282- 283). Dick Carter (1 976:25) has provided a useful summary of what he believes is close to historical accuracy. The following, much abbreviated in details, is a synopsis of that summary; it does not purport to substitute for research still needed for fully comprehensive and accurate accounting, especially insofar as implications of variant tellings in oral folklore and popular culture print.]
Patty Cannon lived in the town known in the 1820s as "Johnson's Crossroads," located several miles to the west of Seaford on the Delaware-Maryland border, and today designated "Reliance." She came to southwestern Sussex County as the wife a small farmer Jesse Cannon, the latter a descendant of a prominent white family in the area. There is evidence that Jesse Cannon prior to 1821 was involved in slave trading, legal and illegal. Jesse Cannon died in the early 1820s. Patty and son-in-law Joseph Johnson subsequently became notorious for operating "Joe Johnson's tavern" some twenty yards inside the Maryland state line. The place catered to slave traders who ventured up the northern reaches of the Chesapeake Bay. The attic of the tavern is said to have held both slaves and Free Blacks captured or otherwise enticed to the facility, where sales and re-sales (prohibited by law in Delaware at the time) were transacted. White slave traders were also victimized.
Patty Cannon was arrested in 1829 upon accidental discovery of a trunk buried on farm property leased by her across the state line in Sussex County. The trunk contained the remains of a Southern slave trader who had disappeared a decade earlier; the bones of other persons, including a child, were also discovered. Cyrus James, a black servant of Patty Cannon, testified as witness to numerous criminal acts over a period of years. Patty Cannon was extradited to Sussex County jail at Georgetown, where she committed suicide prior to trial.
Sources cited I hadn't seen before:
Carter, Dick. The History of Sussex County. Delmarva News, Selbyville. 1986. NOT AT FCPLibrary
Monroe, John A. History of Delaware, second edition. University of Delaware Press, Newark. 1984. NOT AT FCPLibrary
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Carter, Dick. The History of Sussex County. Delmarva News, Selbyville. 1986. NOT AT FCPLibrary
[edit] Hist of Delaware
Monroe, John A. History of Delaware, second edition. University of Delaware Press, Newark. 1984. NOT AT FCPLibrary
[edit] Kidnapping by Carol Wilson 1994
All this material direct from Meghan Linsley Bishop, M.A. Master's Thesis at “Slave to Freewoman and Back Again: Kitty Payne and Antebellum Kidnapping” Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, IN PDF:
https://idea.iupui.edu/dspace/bitstream/1805/1009/1/Slave%20to%20Freewoman%20and%20Back%20Again.pdf
- Carol Wilson’s Freedom at Risk: The Kidnapping of Free Blacks in America, 1780-1865 is currently the only book-length study of the topic.
- In particular, kidnappers preyed on the border lands just north of slavery; “the vast majority of kidnappings,” including Kitty Payne’s, took place “in the border states of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland.” 39 C. Wilson, 10
- The Cannon-Johnson gang, probably “the most nefarious and successful kidnapping ring of the pre-Civil War era,” employed an African-American man named Ransom as a decoy. 165
- Even when the victims were women and children, kidnappers often found it more effective to work in gangs. The Cannon-Johnson gang operated on the Delaware-Maryland border and routinely made excursions into Pennsylvania, and particularly Philadelphia, to enslave free African Americans.167
- Many of their victims, like the Paynes, were women and children, such as young Sarah Hagerman, whom the Cannon-Johnson gang kidnapped from her Pennsylvania home in 1819.168
- 165 C. Wilson, 20. Narrative of Lucretia P. Cannon, 15
- 167 C. Wilson, 20.
- 168 C. Wilson, 19
[edit] Julie Winch
All this material direct from Meghan Linsley Bishop, M.A. Master's Thesis at “Slave to Freewoman and Back Again: Kitty Payne and Antebellum Kidnapping” Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, IN PDF:
https://idea.iupui.edu/dspace/bitstream/1805/1009/1/Slave%20to%20Freewoman%20and%20Back%20Again.pdf
- Julie Winch examines one of these ironies in her article entitled “Philadelphia and the Other Underground Railroad.” Because of the central role borders played in kidnapping, Philadelphia proved a favorite hunting ground for kidnappers. Located just inside the border of a free state, the city harbored many fugitives and free African Americans. Their presence, combined with Philadelphia’s proximity to two slave states, Maryland and Delaware, made the city a rich subject for Winch’s study of kidnapping. Winch suggests that there were in fact two “underground railroads:” one running north, bringing people to freedom, and the other running south, stealing freedom from its unwilling “passengers.”
- Julie Winch, “Philadelphia and the Other Underground Railroad,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 111 (January 1987): 3
[edit] James McBride: Song Yet Sung
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/excerpts/2007-12-26-Song-Yet-Sung_N.htm book to be published Feb 5, 2008, uses PC as his villain in a novel about delusional antebellum black woman (check years; may be set long after PC actually dead)
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Rootsweb. who ...Joe Johnson was Ebenezer Fraser's brother. That is, if Joe Johnson wasn't ... Does anyone know if the infamous PATTY CANNON (purported robber, slave ... archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS/2005-07/1122518005 - 12k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
RootsWeb: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-L Re: [LDR] Patty Cannon, etc. The best account I've found about Patty Cannon's exploits is ... she operated (said to have been owned by her son-in-law, "Joe Johnson") ... archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS/2005-07/1122664672 - 12k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
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Rootsweb: Slavery Chief among the dealers were Patty Cannon, Joe Johnson and Massy [sic] Fountain. Patty Cannon and Joe Johnson, her son-in-law, kept a tavern at Johnson's ... www.rootsweb.com/~mdcaroli/Slavery.html
fieldtrip.html About 1810 or 1811, her daughter, Mary married Joe Johnson. ... Patty Cannon was probably the most vicious and cruel woman of her time. ... edt6010-s1033t.wilmcoll.edu/~user615/pch.html - 6k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this More genealogy than usual; what is their source?
Wicomico MDGenWeb History Article: Spring Hill Wicomico MDGenWeb History Article: Spring Hill ... it that the same haunted woods was the rendezvous of Patty Cannon, leader of a nefarious band of desperadoes, and her infamous son-in-law, Joe Johnson, ... www.rootsweb.com/~mdwicomi/history/springhx.htm - 10k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this [PDF] The Martinak Boat (CAR-154, 18CA54) File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML brokers of humanity were Patty Cannon, Joe Johnson and Massy Fountain, all of whom were known to. either buy or kidnap their victims and ship them to South ... marylandhistoricaltrust.net/martinak.pdf - Similar pages - Note this
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- Mitsawokett: A 17th Century Native American Community in Central ... "Patty Cannon owned a tavern, hired a gang of Irishmen to kidnap colored people for .... "Joe Johnson") were on or near the Delaware-Maryland state line, ... www.mitsawokett.com/PeterMosley&PattyCannon.htm What is this? A book? or what is it sourced to? -- a collection of emails 2000-2005, no explanation of "Irishmen"
- NTU Info Centre: Patty Cannon It seems that when Patty Cannon knew the police were coming she would slip across state lines and away from that police force. Upon capture Joe Johnson, ... http://www.nowtryus.net/article:Patty_Cannon - 5k - What is this?
Cannon's Ferry was renamed Woodland Ferry, and Johnson's Cross Roads, the headquarters of the notorious Joe Johnson - Patty Cannon gang was changed to ... www.mittymax.com/Archive/0091-QueenOfKidnappers.htm - 77k
- Heritage Books: Tales of Old Maryland: History and Romance on the ...
An account of the infamous Patty Cannon—the head of a gang of murderers and slave traders and the horrors of Joe Johnson’s Tavern conclude this work. ... www.heritagebooks.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=HBI&Product_Code=S1745&Affiliat... - 8k - Cached
- The Pilot Newspaper - Arts & Entertainment
The Patty Cannon story will be aired on PBS Thursday, July 17, at 8 pm. ... Originally built as a tavern and operated by Joe Johnson, it became headquarters ... archives.thepilot.com/July2003/07-11-03/071103bestbets.html
- AbeBooks: Résultats de la recherche - Johnson Johnson's Delaware ...
Patty Cannon along with Joe Johnson ran a tavern on the DE-MD state line. They were in the business of stealing and selling slaves, beating people, ... www.abebooks.fr/search/sortby/3/kn/+Johnson+Johnson's+Delaware+and+Maryland - 112k -
- For Further Reading: One of her daughters married Joe Johnson, and he did much of the gang’s kidnapping work ... and RW Messenger’s 1926 novel, Patty Cannon Administers Justice, ... ebooks.abc-clio.com/ebooks/9781851095490/pg_216.asp
[edit] Wikilinks need linkbacks
Dorchester County, Maryland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Patty Cannon was a notorious slave trader who lived in Dorchester County near the ... Cannon and her husband Joe Johnson would steal slaves or kidnap free ... MAKE SURE WIKI LINKS BACK TO see ALSO PATTY CANNON
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorchester_County,_Maryland - 54k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times, by George Alfred Townsend Often had she told him of old Patty Cannon and her kidnapper’s den, and ... A picture of Joe Johnson’s Kidnapper’s Tavern, as it stood in the ... www.sakoman.net/pg/html/19146.htm - 250k - Cached - What is this? Wiki mirror?
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1800s Chesapeake Nautical-Regional History Patty Cannon Lucretia Hanly's father was rumored to be of a Noble family in Yorkshire ... she was an abolitionist) and her partner in crime was Joe Johnson, ... www.chesapeakepicaroons.org/1800s/1800s.html - 77k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
eBay Express: Newspapers Pre - 1919, 1920 - 1939, and 1940 - 1969 ... 1837 NEWSPAPER SLAVE TRADE PATTY CANNON JOE JOHNSON 5E0. 1837 NEWSPAPER SLAVE TRADE PATTY CANNON JOE JOHNSON 5E0. $59.99 |. Shipping:$5.25 ... search.express.ebay.com/Collectibles_Postcards-Paper-Writing-Instruments_Paper_W0QQProductType42be380bZNe... - 89k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
Bay Weekly Online Archives 1997 Slave-stealer Patty Cannon “The Wicked Witch of the Eastern Shore,” discovered by Bob Hall on Oct. 30: With the help of her son-in-law, “Killer” Joe Johnson ... www.bayweekly.com/1997/97v52.html - 77k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
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Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage : Item Viewer Description, Photograph of so-called Patty Cannon €™s House on the border ... to be the home and tavern of Patty Cannon and her son-in-law Joe Johnson. ... collections.mdch.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/mdaa&CISOPTR=229&REC=6 - 46k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
Digital Collections : Item Viewer - Enoch Pratt Free Library Description, Photograph of so-called Patty Cannon’s House on the border ... to be the home and tavern of Patty Cannon and her son-in-law Joe Johnson. ... epfl.mdch.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/mdaa&CISOPTR=229&REC=3 - 41k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
Black Americans in Delaware: An Overview The most notorious slavenapper was Patty Cannon who, with her son-in-law Joe Johnson, ran a tavern on the Delaware-Maryland line in Sussex County. ... www.udel.edu/BlackHistory/overview.html - 36k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
A Brief History of the Mason-Dixon Surveys One of the most famous kidnappers was Patty Cannon, a notoriously violent woman who, with her son-in-law Joe Johnson, ran a tavern on the Delaware-Maryland ... www.udel.edu/johnmack/mason_dixon/ - 73k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
