Cannon Cumbo (Tuscarora poss)

• General Notes
  • http://genforum.genealogy.com/cumbo/messages/64.html
    
    
    8 July, p.112
    
    Deed Cannon Cumbo to Aron Cumbo
    
    Deed Cannon Cumbo to Elisha Cumbo
    
    http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/robeson.htm
    
    22 May 1801 p.152
    
    A Court Called on Friday 22 May of 21 st year of American Independence 1801 for the purpose of trying a negro man named Cezar the property of Cannon Cumboe on a complaint exhibited against him by John Peter Martin for taking & stealing out of his possession two pair of Shoe Bolts & one trunk containg (sic) Sundry Articles when the prisoner was Brought into Court & Charged & plead not guilty & the following jury being impanelled & Sworn to well and truly try the Suit then depending between the State & Cezar the prisoner at the bar & a true verdict give according to the evidence to wit John Storm Isham Pitman Isaac Bird John Cliborn Wm Thompson William Normant Andrew Filmore Benjamin Lee Wm Humphrey etc after hearing the witnesses find him guilty agreeable to the above charge. Ordered that the Sheriff take the prisoner to the publick whipping post & there give him 39 lashes on his bare back.
    
    
    Following hands work on Drowning Creek from the mouth of Raft Swamp to Gibion Cumboes landing William Thompson, John Cumboe, Stephen Cumboe, Gibion Cumboe, Elijah & Aron & Cannon Cumboe and that Benjamin Blount be overseer of the same