canoux

Updated: May 28, 2025

That the practice was early in vogue is shown by the records of the county courts. We read in the Northampton records for 1634 the following, "Upon due examination it is thought fitt by the board that said Joane Butler shall be drawen over the Rings Creeke at the starn of a boat or canoux."

Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker - Patrician and Plebeian: Or The Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion