Rev. John Cann

Deliverance Cann was the daughter of John Cann, noted preacher, publisher and translator of the Bible.

From http://www.molan.somee.com/cann_america/xchange.htm

Another controversial figure of the turbulent times was John Cann, a noted preacher, teacher, translator and printer of the Bible, and author of many religious treatises. The most famous of which was; "A Necessity of Separation from the Church of England." He preached a Reformed Baptist faith, and after the death of John Hubbard, Cann was chosen their leader in London.

After a stormy year or so he was banished to Amsterdam for preaching against the Established Church of England, where he succeeded Henry Ainsworth as pastor of the English Independent Church. The calendar of State Papers, June 9, 1641,shows that John Cann was granted an exclusive license for seven years "To printa Bible with Annotations, being his own work, and that no man unless he be appointed by him, may print his said notes, whether already printed, or to be printed."It is interesting to note that this is among the earliest of copyrights.(from the book, "John Cann of Delaware").

Rev John Cann's grand son, John Cann arrived in Newcastle Delaware in 1675 on the ship Griffin with a group of Quakers seven years before the arrival of William Penn. John Cann's house in New Castle still stands. His estate and farm is now the Delaware Park Raceway. He was one of the early governors of Delaware. He and his sons were the second largest landowners in Delaware.

This was taken from the following site: http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc02/cache/encyc02.txt 4. John Canne's Notes, 1647.

Other Bibles with notes from the pen of annotators appeared and in course of time became very popular. These annotators did not write so much for the learned as for the common people, and their Bibles became household and family books, laying stress more or less on the devotional side. John Canne a Baptist minister (d. 1667?), was the author of three sets of notes which accompanied three editions of the Bible. His great ambition was "to make the Bible its own interpreter." His first authenticated version appeared in 1647 at Amsterdam, under the title, The Bible, with Marginal Notes, Shewing Scripture to be the Best Interpreter of Scripture. The work was often reprinted (9 editions, between 1662 and 1754). Orme, in his Bibliotheca Biblica (Edinburgh, 1824), says of it, "The marginal references of Canne are generally very judicious and apposite. They still retain a considerable reputation, though most of the latter editions which pass under the name of Canne's Bible are full of errors, and crowded with references which do not belong to the original author."