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Patty Cannon, whose birth name may have been Lucretia Patricia Hanly (c. 1759/1760 or 1769 – May 11, 1829), was an illegal slave trader, serial killer, and the co-leader of the multi-racial Cannon–Johnson Gang of Maryland–Delaware.
From 1811 to 1829, Martha "Patty" Cannon was the leader of a gang that kidnapped slaves and free blacks, from the Delmarva Peninsula of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and Chesapeake Bay and transported and sold them to plantation owners located further south.
Martha Maria "Mattie" Hughes Cannon (July 1, 1857 – July 10, 1932) was a Welsh-American politician, physician, Utah women's rights advocate, suffragist, and a polygamous wife. Her family immigrated to the United States as converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and traveled West to settle in the Utah territory ...
Patty Cannon's gang: United States: 1802 [52] –1829: 4–400+ [52] Kidnapped slaves and free blacks in the Delmarva Peninsula and sold them to slavers down south. Cannon, reportedly aroused by the sight of black males being beaten into submission, was arrested when four skeletons (three children, one male adult) were found buried in her ...
A 1996 statue of Martha Hughes Cannon by Laura Lee Stay Bradshaw (born in 1958) is installed outside the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City, Utah. [1] References
Patty Cannon; Frances Ann Tasker Carter; Juana Josefina Cavasos Barnard; Marie Rose Cavelan; Anna Eliza Brydges, Duchess of Chandos; Francisca Chiponda; Annie Henry Christian; Claire Pollard; Nancy Clarke (entrepreneur) Jane Lampton Clemens; Marie Thérèse Coincoin; Amaryllis Collymore; Cornelia Connelly; Hannah Lee Corbin; Thérèse de ...
Martha is a feminine given name (Latin from Ancient Greek Μάρθα (Mártha), from Aramaic מרתא (Mārtā) "the mistress" or "the lady", from מרה "mistress", feminine of מרי "master"). Patti, Patsy, and Patty were in use in Colonial America as English rhyming diminutives of the diminutive Mattie. [1]
A bronze statue of Martha Hughes Cannon by Ben Hammond is installed in the United States Capitol Visitor Center, in Washington, D.C., United States. [1] [2] [3]