"The following land records were abstracted from the Dorchester County Court records. The records include a variety of transactions and activities for the years covered. In addition to land sales, the researcher will also find, viewings & estimations of orphans' estates, sales of goods and chattels, leases, bonds, mortgages, as well as land sales that were initiated to break an entail that was placed on an estate." -- P. [1].

This collection of official records from the Maryland and Delaware colonies and states consists mostly of wills, deeds, probate records of estate administrations and orphan's court proceedings. The focus is on the Cannons but this collection also consists of wills and probates of others who may have named a Cannon as a legatee or whose wills may have been witnessed and/or proved by a Cannon. Families such as the Clarksons, Newtons, Nutters, Willises...