Daughter of L. P. Hanly - Hanley
Native of England
Also known as "Lucretia P. Cannon" - [Beginning in 1841, some popular accounts referred to her as Lucretia P. Cannon, although there is no evidence to indicate she used the name "Lucretia" in her lifetime ] An illegal slave trader and the co-leader of the Cannon-Johnson Gang of Maryland-Delaware. The Cannon/Johnson Gang specialized in the criminal kidnapping of free African-Americans for sale into slavery. Through their secret network that stretched as far south as Alabama and Mississippi, it is believed they abducted hundreds of persons of color and sold them into slavery.
There are no records to show that "Patty" herself was ever brought to trial. That she was arrested and locked up is certain, and that she took poison before her trial is also substantiated. It is claimed that she is buried in a corner of the jail yard at Georgetown. The indictment in the kidnapping case in which Johnson was tried and punished, is:
State VS Joseph Johnson, John Stevenson, Jessie Cannon, Jessie Cannon Jr., Martha Cannon, Mary Johnson
"Indictment. Kidnapping."
True Bill
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Her body was initially buried in the jail's graveyard. When that land became a parking lot in the 20th century, her skeleton, along with those of two other women, was exhumed and reburied in a potter's field near the new prison. However, her skull was separated from the rest of her remains and put on display in various venues, and loaned to the Dover Public Library in 1961. The skull is now on long-term loan to the Smithsonian. ref: Narrative and confessions of Lucretia P. Cannon 1841 by Erastus Elmer Barclay
Native of England
Also known as "Lucretia P. Cannon" - [Beginning in 1841, some popular accounts referred to her as Lucretia P. Cannon, although there is no evidence to indicate she used the name "Lucretia" in her lifetime ] An illegal slave trader and the co-leader of the Cannon-Johnson Gang of Maryland-Delaware. The Cannon/Johnson Gang specialized in the criminal kidnapping of free African-Americans for sale into slavery. Through their secret network that stretched as far south as Alabama and Mississippi, it is believed they abducted hundreds of persons of color and sold them into slavery.
There are no records to show that "Patty" herself was ever brought to trial. That she was arrested and locked up is certain, and that she took poison before her trial is also substantiated. It is claimed that she is buried in a corner of the jail yard at Georgetown. The indictment in the kidnapping case in which Johnson was tried and punished, is:
State VS Joseph Johnson, John Stevenson, Jessie Cannon, Jessie Cannon Jr., Martha Cannon, Mary Johnson
"Indictment. Kidnapping."
True Bill
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Her body was initially buried in the jail's graveyard. When that land became a parking lot in the 20th century, her skeleton, along with those of two other women, was exhumed and reburied in a potter's field near the new prison. However, her skull was separated from the rest of her remains and put on display in various venues, and loaned to the Dover Public Library in 1961. The skull is now on long-term loan to the Smithsonian. ref: Narrative and confessions of Lucretia P. Cannon 1841 by Erastus Elmer Barclay
Daughter of L. P. Hanly - Hanley
Native of England
Also known as "Lucretia P. Cannon" - [Beginning in 1841, some popular accounts referred to her as Lucretia P. Cannon, although there is no evidence to indicate she used the name "Lucretia" in her lifetime ] An illegal slave trader and the co-leader of the Cannon-Johnson Gang of Maryland-Delaware. The Cannon/Johnson Gang specialized in the criminal kidnapping of free African-Americans for sale into slavery. Through their secret network that stretched as far south as Alabama and Mississippi, it is believed they abducted hundreds of persons of color and sold them into slavery.
There are no records to show that "Patty" herself was ever brought to trial. That she was arrested and locked up is certain, and that she took poison before her trial is also substantiated. It is claimed that she is buried in a corner of the jail yard at Georgetown. The indictment in the kidnapping case in which Johnson was tried and punished, is:
State VS Joseph Johnson, John Stevenson, Jessie Cannon, Jessie Cannon Jr., Martha Cannon, Mary Johnson
"Indictment. Kidnapping."
True Bill
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Her body was initially buried in the jail's graveyard. When that land became a parking lot in the 20th century, her skeleton, along with those of two other women, was exhumed and reburied in a potter's field near the new prison. However, her skull was separated from the rest of her remains and put on display in various venues, and loaned to the Dover Public Library in 1961. The skull is now on long-term loan to the Smithsonian. ref: Narrative and confessions of Lucretia P. Cannon 1841 by Erastus Elmer Barclay
Native of England
Also known as "Lucretia P. Cannon" - [Beginning in 1841, some popular accounts referred to her as Lucretia P. Cannon, although there is no evidence to indicate she used the name "Lucretia" in her lifetime ] An illegal slave trader and the co-leader of the Cannon-Johnson Gang of Maryland-Delaware. The Cannon/Johnson Gang specialized in the criminal kidnapping of free African-Americans for sale into slavery. Through their secret network that stretched as far south as Alabama and Mississippi, it is believed they abducted hundreds of persons of color and sold them into slavery.
There are no records to show that "Patty" herself was ever brought to trial. That she was arrested and locked up is certain, and that she took poison before her trial is also substantiated. It is claimed that she is buried in a corner of the jail yard at Georgetown. The indictment in the kidnapping case in which Johnson was tried and punished, is:
State VS Joseph Johnson, John Stevenson, Jessie Cannon, Jessie Cannon Jr., Martha Cannon, Mary Johnson
"Indictment. Kidnapping."
True Bill
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Her body was initially buried in the jail's graveyard. When that land became a parking lot in the 20th century, her skeleton, along with those of two other women, was exhumed and reburied in a potter's field near the new prison. However, her skull was separated from the rest of her remains and put on display in various venues, and loaned to the Dover Public Library in 1961. The skull is now on long-term loan to the Smithsonian. ref: Narrative and confessions of Lucretia P. Cannon 1841 by Erastus Elmer Barclay
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