Phillippe (De Lannoy) Delano (bef. 1602 - 1681)

Born before 7 Dec 1602 in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

Ancestors

Husband of Hester (Dewsbury) Delano — married 19 Dec 1634 in Plymouth Colony

Husband of Mary (Pontus) Delano — married 17 Jan 1653 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony

Descendants

Died 22 Aug 1681 after age 78 in Duxbury, Plymouth Colony, New England

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Philip (De Lannoy) Delano migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See Great Migration Begins, by R. C. Anderson, Vol. 1, p. 517) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

The Walloons & The Pilgrims

Among the many religious groups seeking refuge in Leiden in the late 1500s was the French Protestant sect known as the Walloons or Huguenots, who were granted use of one of Leiden’s large medieval churches, the Vrouwekerk. The Pilgrims, some of whom also attended the church, had extensive contact with the Walloons, and several Walloons joined the Pilgrims in colonizing Plymouth. Among them was Phillipe DeLannoy, who had been baptized at Vrouwekerk in 1603, and whose name is still discernible in that of his more famous descendant, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Although only the east wall of the old church remains, a bronze commemorative plaque inscribed with the remarkable story of the route from the Walloon church to the White House was placed on Thanksgiving 2011. Read more at [[1]]

French and Walloon Huguenots

About a century ago, it was assumed that Philip Delano was from a French Huguenot family. Narrowly defined, French Huguenots were Protestant refugees from the Kingdom of France who had their own churches and who opposed Roman Catholic theology.^[1]

However, documentation from the early 17th century places Philippe De Lannoy and his parents at a Walloon church in Leyden, Netherlands.^[2]

"Philip's parents were Walloons, French-speaking Protestant Christians from Wallonia, now split between Belgium and northern France. Jan de Lano of Tourcoing and Mary Mahieu of Lille were betrothed on January 13, 1596, in the Walloon church of Leiden. Philip was baptized in the church on November 6, 1603."^[3] NOTE: The Huguenot Migration Project on WikiTree considers all French-speaking / French-culture Protestants of this period to be "Huguenots," accepting Walloon Protestants in the Migration as they were subjected to the same religious-based discrimination and persecution and often inter-married, both in Europe and in American & South African colonies. ^[4]

• Baptism-Doop Place- Plaats: Leiden Date- Datum: 06-11-1603
  Child-Kind: Philippe de Lannoij
  Father- Vader: Jan de Lannoj Mother-Moeder: Marie
  Witn.-Getuigen: François Cock, Philippe Marines,
  Tonnette de Lannoij, Mergueritte de Lannoij^[5]

Walloons are a Celtic ethnic group with their own language related to French. Today the Walloon area is in both Belgium and France, but in the 16th century most of it (including both Lannoy and Tourcoing) was part of the Spanish Netherlands. Walloon converts to Protestant religion were persecuted and pushed out of their homeland by the (Spanish) Hapsburg monarchy, not the French.

One source writes, "The de Lannoys were not French in the modern meaning of the word, i.e. 'nationals of France.' The Delano Genealogy correctly states 'The Lannoys were never a French family.' They spoke French because they were from French [speaking] Flanders, which in the 16th century was part of the Spanish Netherlands, not France. Edward Winslow said Philippe was 'born of French parents,' but it is not clear whether he knew they were not from France."^[6] (This source confuses Wallonia with adjacent Flanders.) The Walloon language is closely related to French, and modern scholars often consider it to be a dialect of French.^[7] Perhaps Winslow, as well, didn't recognize a significant difference between the two languages.

Disputed Royal Lineage

Tourcoing, the origin of the Delano family, is now right on the French border with Belgium. Tourcoing was the seat of a branch of the ancient noble de Lannoy family, which still has living members today in Belgium. The 1899 genealogy of the American Delanos tried to establish that the grandfather of Philip Delano, Guilbert de Lannoy of Tourcoing, was the grandson of Philippe de Lannoy, head of the Tourcoing branch of the noble de Lannoy family.^[8]

However, in his lengthy 2007 article on the de Lannoy family in The Mayflower Descendant, George English devotes a section (pp. 173-83) to considering the question of Guillebert's parents. He concludes that "there is no credible evidence that any of Philippe de Lannoy's sons, apart possibly from Baudouin, was the father of Guillebert....The noble Baudouin de Lannoy is the only family member who could possibly have been the father of Guillebert but it is unlikely that he was."^[9][10][11]

Biography

Philip (De Lannoy) Delano was a Huguenot emigrant (1540-1790).

Philip Delano was born in Leyden, South Netherlands Holland, 1602, and baptized in a Walloon church there, 6 November 1603, son of Jean Lannoy and Marie Mahieu. ^[12][13][14]

His name has been spelled several ways in the records and sources: "Phillippe" or "Phillip"; "De Lannoy", "de le Noye", or "Delano."

Philip Delano came to America on the ship Fortune late in 1621, age nineteen.^[15] He would have been in his late teens at the time. He was related to the Cooke family, and was listed in their family group at the division of cattle in 1627.

He was granted an acre of land in Plymouth in 1624, but soon sold it to Stephen Deane for £4 "one acre of land lying on the north side of town between the first and second brook" after which he moved to Duxbury.

He was admitted a freeman, January 1, 1632-33.^[16]

He was granted Duxbury farmland October 2, 1637.

He served in a variety of public service capacities, including: surveyor of lands, grand jury, and volunteer in the Pequot war, June 7, 1637.

He died at Duxbury (not Bridgewater as claimed by some), Massachusetts, between August 21, 1681 and March 4, 1681-2, aged seventy-nine years.

His estate was settled July 5, 1682.

Family

Anderson, in Great Migration Begins, p. 519-20 discusses this man's children and the settlement of his estate. There are other children mentioned in the Plymouth County records which may have belonged to this family.

He married first Hester Dewsbury on December 19, 1634,^[17][18]; she died between 1648 and 1653, and by him had:

1. MARY, b. say 1635; m. Plymouth 29 November 1655 Jonathan Dunham [PCR 8:17]; she d. soon and had no children.^[19]
2. PHILIP, b. say 1637; m. say 1670 Elizabeth Sampson, daughter of Abraham and _____ (Nash) Sampson (called Elizabeth Delano in her grandfather Nash's will.) ^[20]
3. THOMAS, b. say 1639; m. by 1667 Rebecca Alden, daughter of JOHN ALDEN ("Thomas Delanoy, and his now wife, for committing carnal copulation before marriage, fined" at October Court, 1667.^[21]
4. ESTHER, b. say 1641; on 1 October 1661 Abraham Pierce Jr. confessed that he had falsely accused "Rebeckah Alden and Hester Delanoy" of being pregnant;^[22] probably m. (1) by about 1670 Samuel Samson, son of Abraham and _____ (Nash) Samson, and if so, m. (2) by 1679 John Soule.^[23].
5. JOHN, b. say 1644; m. by about 1679 Mary Weston, daughter of Edmund Weston of Duxbury.^[24]
6. JONATHAN, b. about 1648 (d. Dartmouth 28 December 1720 in 73rd year); m. Dartmouth 28 February 1677/8 Mercy Warren, daughter of Nathaniel Warren and granddaughter of RICHARD WARREN.^[25]

Philip married (2) by 17 January 1653[/4] Mary (Pontus) Glass, born by 1622, daughter of William Pontus:

"... Phillip Delanoy, who was then present, and with the consent of Mary, his wife, the other daughter of the said William Pontus" 3 May 1664 [PCR 4:58]), and widow of James Glass ("Phillp Delano Senr. aged 74 years or there about testifieth and saith before he married Mary Glass the relict of James Glass deceased...," 3 March 1676/7.^[26]

Children of Philip and Mary included:

1. JANE, b. say 1655; living 1682 (settlement of her father's estate); no further record.
2. REBECCA, b. about 1657 (d. Plymouth 7 April 1709 "aged 52 years";^[27] m. Plymouth 28 December 1686 John Churchill.^[28]
3. SAMUEL, b. say 1659 [adult 1682]; m. by 1679 Elizabeth Standish, daughter of Alexander Standish (in his will of 21 February 1701/2 Alexander named "my daughter Elizabeth Delano the wife of Samuel Delano".^[29]
4. [a 4th?]

Estate

During his life in Massachusetts, he was granted much land, some of which he sold to others, some of which he deeded to two sons, John and Thomas.^[30]

He left no will, but administration of his estate was granted 7 July 1682 administration to Samuel Delano.^[31]

The inventory of the estate of "Phillip Delano of Duxburrow" was taken 4 March 1681/2 and totalled £50 13s., with no real estate included.^[32] by which time the court had compared two memoranda purporting to reflect the intent of Philip Delano for the disposal of his estate. The memos referred to "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 his "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.^[33][34]

Sources

1. ↑ Those interested in previous discussion of this topic can see this G2G thread.
2. ↑ Kerry William Bate, "Some Delano Answers," The American Genealogist, vol. 53, #3 (July 1977), pp. 172-73.
3. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, Pilgrim Villlage Families Sketch: Philip Delano/De la Noye, (NEHGS) link via WayBackMachine archive, capture date 22 February 2014. Also available from Plimouth Plantation: Genealogical Profile - Philip Delano
4. ↑ Added by Chet Snow, Leader of the Huguenot Migration Project on WikiTree on August 10, 2020.
5. ↑ Bron: Archiefnr: 1004 Archiefnaam: Dopen Waalse Kerk Inventarisnummer: 270 Baptism Philippe de Lannoij 1603 Leiden
6. ↑ George English, "Ancestry and History of Philip Delano," in "The Mayflower Descendant", vol. 56 (2007), p. 167. Winslow wrote in 1646: "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." Quoted in Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, citing Young's Pilgrim Fathers, 394-95 (which itself is taken from Winslow, "Hypocrisie Unmasked," 1646).
7. ↑ Wikipedia, "Walloon Language"
8. ↑ Reynolds (1899), p 1059-1060
9. ↑ George English, "Ancestry and History of Philip Delano," in "The Mayflower Descendant", vol. 56 (2007), p. 183.
10. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, "Phillip Delano", in The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol I (Boston: New England Historic Genelogical Society, 1995), pp. 517-521.
11. ↑ Reynolds (1914), pp 1058-1060
12. ↑ Mayflower Descendants Through Five Generations, Vol. 12, page 1-2
13. ↑ Anderson, GMB, citing TAG 52:91-92, 53:172-73; NEHGR 143:197-98
14. ↑ Heritage Leiden and Surroundings, Pilgrim Documents, Baptism record, Record Group 1004, Call No. 270, Page 10
15. ↑ George F. Willison, Saints and Strangers, Cornwall, NY: The Cornwall Press (1943, Third Printing), pp. 443-444.
16. ↑ Anderson, GMB, citing PCR 1:5. Also: In lists of "1633" and 7 March 1636/7 [PCR 1:4, 53]. In Duxbury section of Plymouth Colony lists of freemen of 1639, 1658 and 29 May 1670 [PCR 5:274, 8:175, 198]
17. ↑ Anderson, GMB, citing PCR 1:32
18. ↑ “Plymouth Colony records, court orders, 1633-1690”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3S3-4QXX-D  : 3 April 2023), , FHL microfilm 008492483, image 51, Plymouth, Massachusetts, Vol 1-3, 166-1640, Page 72.
19. ↑ Anderson, GMB, citing TAG 36:243-49
20. ↑ Anderson, GMB, citing NEHGR 52:76; TAG 15:165-67
21. ↑ Anderson, GMB, citing PCR 8:122
22. ↑ Anderson, GMB, citing PCR 4:7
23. ↑ Anderson, GMB, citing Muriel Curtis Cushing, Philip Delano of the "Fortune" 1621,... (Plymouth 1999), pp. 4-5 and arguments presented there
24. ↑ Anderson, GMB, citing NGSQ, 71:41-43
25. ↑ Anderson, GMB, citing MFIP Warren 35-36
26. ↑ Anderson, GMB, citing PCR 4:58, MD 14:64, and PCLR 6:93
27. ↑ Anderson, GMB, citing Bradford Kingman, Epitaphs from Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Brookline 1892), p. 9
28. ↑ Anderson, GMB, citing PVR 85
29. ↑ Anderson, GMB, citing MD 12:101
30. ↑ Anderson, GMB, citing various Plymouth land records, including PCLR 3:330, and PCLR 3:331
31. ↑ Anderson, GMB, citing PCR 6:91
32. ↑ Anderson, GMB, citing MD 11:249, citing PCPR 4:2:120
33. ↑ Anderson, GMB, citing MD 11:250-51, citing PCPR 4:2:120
34. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L97D-V385 : 16 March 2023), Wills 1633-1686 vol 1-4 > image 597 of 616; State Archives, Boston.

• Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633. 3 vols. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995. Digital images. New England Historic Genealogical Society. American Ancestors. v 1 pp 527-21. American Ancestors (subscription).

• Delano, Maj Joel Andrew, (compiler). The genealogy, history and alliances of the American house of Delano, 1621 to 1899: with the history and heraldry of the maison de Franchimont and de Lannoy to Delano, 1096 to 1621, and the royal ancestry of Lannoy from Guelph, prince of the Scyrri, to Phillippe de Lannoy, 476 A. D. to 1621, including other royal lines and a list of the Lannoy chevaliers de la toison d'or [golden fleece]. New York: [n.p.], 1899. Digital images. Open Library. Open Library. https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23693816M/The_genealogy_history_and_alliances_of_the_American_house_of_Delano_1621_to_1899. : 2015.

• "Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850: Plymouth V1." Database of images. New England Historic Genealogical Society. American Ancestors. AmericanAncestors.org: 2015.

• Massachusetts Officers and Soldiers in the Seventeenth-Century Conflicts, http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/colonial-soldiers-and-officers-in-new-england-1620-1775/image/?volumeId=13255&pageName=71&rId=236048765

See also:

• Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of Early Settlers in New England
  "PHILIP Delano of Plymouth, came in the Fortune 1621, b. of French or Flemish Protestant parents, was s. prob. of Jean and Marie de Launey, bapt. 7 Dec. 1603 in the Walloon ch. of Leyden; was freem. of that col. 1632. rem. soon after to Duxbury, m. 19 Dec. 1634, Esther Dewsbury, and next, 1657, Mary, wid. of James Glass, d.of William Pontus and had ch. Thomas, Mary, Philip, John, ; Jane, Rebecca, Jonathan, Esther, and Samuel."
• Pilgrim Families (NEHGS) link via WayBackMachine archive, capture date 22 February 2014. Also available from Plimouth Plantation: Genealogical Profile - Philip Delano
• Ralph V. Wood, Jr., Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Volume 12 (revised edition): Francis Cooke (Rockland, Maine: Picton Press, 2011). Gives baptismal record from Leiden records.
• mayflowerhistory.com Mayflower History includes the division of cattle and other references
• Delano Kindred U.S.
• Gary Boyd Roberts, Ancestors of American Presidents (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009).
• Wikipedia Philip Delano
• Wikipedia [2]
• Wikipedia Walloons
• Wikipedia Walloon language
• Wikipedia Wallonia
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_%28Plymouth_Colony_ship%29
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passengers_of_1621_Fortune_voyage
• Hotten, John Camden, The Original Lists Of Persons Of Quality (John Camden Hotten, 1874) Page xxviii
• "The Genealogical History and Alliances of the American House of Delano 1621-1899." compiled by Major Joel Andrew Delano. "Royal Octavo, 561 pp." and M. deLannoy c. 1910
• Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet. Records of The Colony of New Plymouth, in New England (William White, Bostons, 1855) Vol. 1: Court Orders 1633-1640, Page 32
• "The Pilgrims Before Plymouth" Smithsonian Magazine, October, 18, 2001, by John Hanc. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/the-pilgrims-before-plymouth-111851259/?fbclid=IwAR0gGX7nUrrv7W7462FJhIL3WOIfSJfl3XQmmwrkIA8PUblzIcjg4FJ8Z74#QWjc5WfQ2AmEmGPH.99