Philip Delano

Philip Delano
Born Philipe de la Noye
(1603-11-06)November 6, 1603
Leiden, Holland
Died Somewhere between August 22, 1681(1681-08-22) (aged 77) and March 4, 1682(1682-03-04) (aged 78)
Duxbury, Massachusetts
Nationality France
Known for Citizen of Plymouth Colony
Ancestor of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Philip Delano (c. 1603 - c. 1681-82) arrived in Plymouth Colony in November 1621 on the voyage of the ship Fortune. He was about 16 years of age on arrival and may have been a servant of one of the Fortune passengers. Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke was his uncle with whom he may initially have resided. Philip Delano lived a long life in Plymouth Colony where he became a person of some note, being involved in numerous governmental activities such as civil commissions and juries. Among his early activities was in becoming a very young (investment) Purchaser in 1626 and making the first recorded land sale in Plymouth after the institution of private property. At his death it is believed he had become a person of some wealth.[1][2]

Philip Delano died in Duxbury, Massachusetts between August 22, 1681 and March 4, 1681/82. His burial place is unknown.[3][4]

French language and Walloon ancestry

Philip Delano was baptized in the Waloon church of Leiden, Holland on November 6, 1603. His parents are recorded as Jan de Lano of Tourcoing and Mary Mahieu of Lille in French Flanders, who were betrothed on January 13, 1596 in the same Walloon church. His father died within a year or two, and his mother became betrothed to Robert Mannoo, a woolcomber from Namur in Wallonia on February 18, 1605. Philip grew up in Leiden, but further details are unknown. Per author Eugene Stratton, Philip was a member of the Separatist church in Leiden, born of French parents and had been in communion with the French (Walloon) church. In the 17th century the Walloons were French-speaking people (Protestants or Catholics) from the Low Countries, in today's Belgium and French Flanders.

Family name

Over the years, names of various spellings have been attributed to him. Banks has him as Phillipe de la Noye, although the original spelling of the name is « de Lannoy ». In the 1623 Division of Land he is listed as Philipe de la Noye. In both the 1626 Purchasers list and 1633/34 tax list he is Phillip Delanoy. In the next generation the name changed, with his son Thomas listing his surname as "De Lano". His father's name at marriage and death is recorded in Dutch church records as Jan Lano.

In New England

In November 1621 Philip Delano arrived in Plymouth Colony as a single man on the ship Fortune. Banks states that he was 16 years of age when he arrived and must at this time have been a servant of one of the other passengers, as he was a minor.[1][3]

He may have lived first in Plymouth with an aunt and uncle, Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke and his wife Hester (Mahieu).[2]

In the 1623 Division of Land he is listed as Philipe de la Noye.

Delano was one of the Purchasers (or Old Purchasers) which were heads of families resident in Plymouth in 1626 and were later given special privileges which allowed them advantageous grants of free land. In late 1626 Isaac Allerton had reached an agreement with their colony financial backers in London, the Adventurers, that the colony would buy their debts from the London backers and form their own group in Plymouth, the Undertakers, which would assume the debt. The agreement was signed in Plymouth on behalf of the Purchasers by 27 men with Delano signing as “Phillip Delanoy”.

In 1627 Delano made the first recorded land sale in Plymouth after institution of private property (from his share of the 1623 land division). The land was one acre on the north side of town sold to Stephen Deane.

In 1633 Delano was on the freeman list.

In 1637 Delano volunteered for the Pequot War.[1]

On October 2, 1637 Delano was given forty acres of land in Duxbury, adjoining the lands of John Alden and Edward Bumpus.[5]

Philip Delano served on various juries and commissions, especially grand juries.

For several years Delano was appointed surveyor and resided in Duxbury by 1639.

In 1641 Philip Delano deposed that he was about thirty-six years old.[5]

Delano was on the 1662 list of first-born children to get land at Middleborough.[5]

Family

The number of children that Philip Delano had is not certain, their birth years or which of his two wives bore them. The following is the current estimate:[2][6]

Philip married:

1. Hester Dewsbery/Dewsbury on December 19, 1634 in Plymouth. She died between 1648 and 1653. Her burial place is unknown.

2. Mary (Pontus) Glass, widow of James, sometime between September 3, 1652 (death of James Glass) and December 3, 1659. Her father was William Pontus, died before March 4, 1652/53. Her burial place is unknown.[7]

Children attributed to Philip and Hester Delano:

Children attributed to Philip and Mary Delano:

Death and burial of Philip Delano

Philip Delano died in Duxbury, Massachusetts between August 22, 1681 (date of memorandum serving as will) and March 4, 1681/2 (date of inventory). Per the Duxbury Rural and Historical Society, there are no records of his burial place. But it is likely that he was buried in the Myles Standish Burying Ground in Duxbury as he was a member of the church there and many of his descendants were buried there. [2][8]

His estate and heirs

On July 5, 1682 Philip Delano’s sons Thomas and Samuel (Samuel being called the only son of the second wife) agreed to follow what they knew to be the intent of their father, now deceased, for the distribution of his estate; his other children sharing the estate being John, Jane, Rebecca and Philip.[5][6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620-1691 (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1986), p. 280
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Genealogical Profile of Philip Delano/De la Noye, (collaboration of Plimoth Plantation and New England Historic Genealogical Society accessed 2013)
  3. 1 2 3 Charles Edward Banks,The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Father Original Narratives of Early American History (New York: Grafton Press, 1929), p. 115
  4. Memorial for Philip Delano
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620-1691 (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1986), p. 281
  6. 1 2 3 Robert Charles Anderson, Pilgrim Village Family Sketch: Philip Delano (a collaboration between American Ancestors and New England Historic Genealogical Society)
  7. Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620-1691 (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1986), pp. 281, 339
  8. Memorial for Philip Delano
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