Thomas Smyth, note on the Genn family, NEHGR 34 (April 1880)

“Thomas Genn (ante, xxvi. 196), the father of Samuel, Thomas, James and Josiah Genn, was located in Caroline Co., Md., on East bank of Choptank River, on a plantation called ‘Cape Ann.’ It was midway between Denton and Greensborough. He died about 1769. James, a brother of the elder Thomas, was located on the west side of Choptank River, about one mile above Greensborough… He died about 1787.”