Philip Delano was baptized as “Philip De Lannoy” at the Walloon Church (also called the Green Gate Church), Leiden, Holland, on 7 December (or 6 November) 1603, the son of Jean and Mary (Mahieu) de Lannoy. [TAG 52:91-92, 53:172-3] His parents were French-speaking Protestant Walloons who fled to England and then Holland during the Reformation. Wallonia, along with Flanders and Brussels, are the three regions of Belgium. Philip is my probable 11th great-grandfather on my grandfather Arthur Washburn Ellis Davis’ side of the family, but I have more research to do.
Remains of the Vouwekerk Church
Philip was not your typical New England Colonist—he was French by ancestry and Dutch by birth. His name became Anglicized over time.
Philip’s uncle and aunt were Francis and Hester (Mahieu) Cooke; Francis was a Mayflower passenger and perhaps served as Philip’s guardian as his he was just 3 or 4 when his father died. [Bangs] I descend from Francis Cooke through his daughter Hester who married Richard Wright.
In 1621 Philip was 18 years old when he came to Plymouth on the Fortune. He is called a husbandman and fisherman in records.
Edward Winslow wrote of Philip: “There is also one Philip Delanoy, born of French parents, came to us from Leyden to New Plymouth, who coming to age of discerning demanded also communion with us; and proving himself to be come of such parents as were in full communion with the French churches, was hereupon admitted by the church of Plymouth; and after, upon his removal of habitation to Duxburrow, where Mr. Ralph Partridge is pastor of the church, and upon letters of recommendation from the church at Duxburrow, being six miles distant from Plymouth; and so, I dare say, if his occasions lead him, may from church to church throughout New England.”
As passengers of the Fortune, “Philipe de la Noye” and Moses Simonson were granted two acres of land. Philip sold his acre to Stephen Deane in 1627 for £4. [PCR 12:7] Philip was admitted freeman at Plymouth 1 January 1632/3. [PCR 1:5]
Philip was granted 40 acres in Duxbury on 2 October 1637. [PCR 1:67] He moved to Duxbury by 1639 when he is in that section of Plymouth Colony lists of freemen. [PCR 5:274] His neighbor was Edward Bumpas/Bumpus/Bompasse, also believed to be a Walloon. I descend from Edward as well, but my line of descent has one generation that needs work. Philip’s land bordered the sea and Stoney/Mill Brook at what is now St. George Street and site of playing fields. [Healy]
He had some education as he signed his deeds. Philip served the Colony in a variety of ways: grand juries, petit juries, arbiter, and surveyor. [Anderson] He volunteered to serve in the Pequot War on 7 June 1637. [PCR 1:61]
Philip married, first, Hester Dewsbury on 19 December 1634 at Plymouth. [PCR 1:32]
Philip had at least nine children, although their births are not recorded, and whether their mother is Hester or Mary is not always certain. Philip, Thomas, John, Samuel, Jane, and Rebecca are named in the settlement of his estate. Mary and Jonathan are known from other records. He may well have had additional children, likely daughters, depending on how one interprets the memorandum that served as a will.
Hester and Philip likely had these five children [Anderson]:
- Mary born say 1636; m Plymouth 29 Nov 1655 Jonathan Dunham; she died soon after marriage
- Philip born say 1637; m say 1670 Elizabeth Sampson daughter of Samuel and —?— (Nash) Sampson.
- Thomas born say 1639; m by 1667 Rebecca Alden daughter of John Alden
- John born say 1644; m about 1679 Mary Weston daughter of Edmond of Duxbury.
- Jonathan born about 1648; m Dartmouth 28 Feb 1677/8 Mercy Warren, daughter of Nathaniel Warren
Hester died sometime between 1648 and 1653.
Philip married, second, Mary Pontus by 17 January 1654 at Plymouth. [MD 5:92] She was born Leiden about 1622, the daughter of William and Wybra (Hanson) Pontus. She had married, first, James Glass on 31 October 1645 who died at sea in September 1652. I also descend from James and Mary’s daughter Hannah.
Mary and Philip likely had these three children [Anderson]:
6. Jane born say 1655; living 1682
7. Samuel born say 1659; m by 1679 Elizabeth daughter of Alexander Standish.
8. Rebecca b say 1661; m 28 Dec 1686 John Churchill
Philip’s probable daughter, probably by wife Hester:
9. Esther who is my ancestor. There is adequate circumstantial evidence that she was Philip’s daughter. Unfortunately she is not mentioned by name in settlement of her father’s estate in 1682. An Esther/Hester married Samuel Samson/Sampson. Some published genealogists have her marrying, second, John Soule, son of George of the Mayflower, but Anderson wrote this is not the case. There is an Esther, wife of John Soule buried in Duxbury whose age at death calculates to a 1640 birth. I wrote about Samuel Samson here.
I descend from Esther and her first husband Samuel Samson and also from John Soule and his first wife Rebecca Simmons/Simonson, the daughter of Moses with whom Philip Delano was deeded the land at Duxbury. All of the inter-connections make my head spin!
In a 1641 deposition “Phillip De Lanoe of Duxbury planter” stated that he was “aged about thirty-six years” and at that time he owned a boat which he used in catching mackerel. [Hale] On 3 March 1676/7 “Philip Delano Senr” gave his age as “74 years or there about.” [MD 14:61, citing PCLR 6:93]
On 17 Jan 1653/4 Phillip Delano of Duxburrow and Mary his wife sold to John Churchill and Benajah Pratt (my 8th great grandfather) the house and land near Plymouth “sometimes the house and land of William Pontus and James Glasse both deceased.” Mary had inherited this land from her father William Pontus. On the same day they sold a parcel of about 1.5 acres of meadow to John Churchill with the same notation of past ownership. [MD 5:92-93, citing PCLR 2:1:93]
On 3 Dec 1659 Phillip Delano Sr with the consent of Mary his wife sold one half his purchase lands at Coaksett [current day Westport] or Cushena or both to William Earle. [MD 11:249, citing PCLR 2:2:41] On 13 Dec 1660 “Phillip Delanoy of Duxburrow…with the consent of my wife” sold to Nicholas Byram of Weymouth “my whole right of lands in the town of Bridgewater…viz: a full and complete purchase of uplands, meadows and swamps that is or shall be laid out or divided or remain in common.” [PCLR 3:25] On 5 June 1667 Philip Delano of Duxbury, husbandman, sold to John Russell Sr of Dartmouth, yeoman, one half share of the lands at Dartmouth “granted unto the said Phillip Delano…as a purchaser or old comer.” [PCLR 3:83]
Philip was an original proprietor of Bridgewater in 1645 but he did not live there. [Winsor]
On 11 April 1674 Philip Delano Sr of Duxbury, planter, in consideration of “love and natural affection” granted “unto my true and natural son John Delano my lot of five and twenty acres at Namassakett lying upon Teticutt River in Middleborough with three acres of upland lying in Duxburrow.” [PCLR 3:330] On the same day Philip Delano Sr of Duxbury, planter, granted to “Thomas Delano his true and natural son the one-half of his hundred acre lot at Namassakett in the town of Middleborough, the lot to be divided betwixt his brother and him, Phillip Delano and him.” Also one-half the meadow land in Middleborough, one-half of five acres of meadow land at the beach lying on the Southside of Plymouth and three acres of meadow lying at the Mill River.” [PCLR 3:331]
Philip died between 22 August 1681 [document serving as a will] and 4 March 1681/2 [date of inventory] at Duxbury. He was about 78 years old.
On 5 July 1682 a comparison was made between two memoranda purporting to reflect the intent of Philip Delano for the disposal of his estate, one dated 22 August 1681, the other “now drawn” 5 July 1682.The merged intent was agreed to mean: “his three eldest [sons] and each of [them] know their proportions, and John hath twenty five acres more at Namassakett” to Samuel a horse, cow, two steers, chain and cart; to Jane one cow and heifer; to Rebeckah a yearling heifer; his wife a cow and free use of one third of the orchard and land during her life; to his three sons Phillip, Thomas and Samuel a yoke of old oxen to improve “and when their service is done, to revert wholly to Phillip and Thomas,” Thomas executor; saw and wedges to Samuel; 5s each to the “Seven eldest children, of which seven, two, viz: Phillip and Thomas, have received their proportions;” at wife’s death all moveables to his four youngest children. [MD 11:250-1, citing PCPR 4:2:120]
On 7 July 1682 administration on the estate of “Phillip Delano of Duxburrow” was granted to Samuel Delano. [PCR 6:91] Inventory of the estate of “Phillip Delano of Duxburrow”had already been taken on 4 March 1681/2 and totaled £50 13s. No real estate included as he had already sold and gifted his holdings. [MD 11:249, citing PCPR 4:2:120]
Mary Delano died 3 February 1690 at Plymouth. She was about 68 years old.
Sources:
Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs, Strangers and Pilgrims, Travellers and Sojourners, Leiden and the Foundations of Plymouth Plantation, GSMD, 2009
Eugene Stratton, Plymouth Colony, Its History and People, 1986
Lamont “Monty” Healy, Duxbury Clipper, “The Delano Family,” August 1, 2012
Justin Winsor, History of the Town of Duxbury, Massachusetts, with Genealogical Registers, 1849
George English, The Mayflower Descendant, “Ancestry and History of Philip Delano, born Philippe de Lannoy: Further Findings about the de Lannoy and Mahieu Families,” 69:5 (2021)
Muriel Curtis Cushing & George B. DeLano, Duxbury: Our Pilgrim Story, “The Delano Family,” Duxbury Rural & Historical Society, 2020
Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, 1995
Edward Winslow Hypocrisie Unmasked, 1646
Edward Everett Hale, Editor, Note-book Kept by Thomas Lechford Esq, Lawyer, in Boston, Massachusetts Bay, from June 27, 1638 to July 29, 1641, 1885
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