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PHILIPPE DE LA NOYE
Phillip Delanoy married Hester Dewsbury on 19 December 1634 in Plymouth. [NBS1]
Philippe de la Noye was one of the French-speaking Walloons who emigrated across the border from Spanish-occupied Belgium to the the United Netherlands. He joined the Pilgrim church in Leyden and emigrated to Plymouth on the Fortune in 1621. [OPP, ch. 3, fn. 9]
Land was divided in Plymouth in 1623, with each household receiving an acre per member. Philippe de la Noye and Moses Simonsen, who arrived on the Fortune in November 1621 shared a two-acre lot. [DL21][PCHP]
Phillip was in the first lot of the division of cattle in 1627 in Plymouth. [DC27]
The first meeting of the New Plymouth Colony General Court took place on 1 January 1632/3 (all court dates are old style). Philip was made a freeman at this court. All governments need revenue and one of the courts first acts was to order the collection of taxes. The taxes, collexted in corn, ranged from nine shillings for most of the households to three pounds and 11 shillings for Isaac Allerton. Phillip was assessed 18 shillings. [NBS1]
By an order of 2 January 1633/4, he paid a tax of nine shillings. [NBS1]
Philipp was admitted a freeman on 1 January 1632 in Plymouth. He was on lists of freeman in Plymouth in 1633 and 7 March 1636/7. [NBS1] He was on a jury empaneled to lay out highways about Plymouth, Duxbury and Eel River on 2 May 1637. [NBS1]
Plymouth Colony decided to send soldiers to assist Massachusetts Bay Colony and Connecticut Colony in their war against the Pequot. On 7 June 1637 Phillip was one of the soldiers who volunteered to go. [NBS1]
On 2 October 1637 Phillip was granted 40 acres on the Duxbury side. [NBS1]
He was on a grand jury on 4 June 1639, 2 June 1646. [NBS1] He was on the trial jury on 7 June 1648, 6 June 1649. [NBS2]
Children of Philippe de la Noye:
i. Thomas Delano married Rebecca Alden.
ii. Lieutenant Jonathan Delano married Mercy Warren.
iii. Mary Delano married Lieutenant Jonathan Dunham as his first wife on 29 November 1655. [HTMM][JEB] Jonathan, the son of Deacon John Dunham of Plymouth, died on 17 December 1718, age 85. [HTMM] He married second Mary, the daughter of Elder Henry Cobb.
Jonathan was a representative from Middleborough to the General Court in 1673. He was a constable in 1673 and a selectman in 1o674–1675. [HTMM] He later moved to Plymouth and became a minister to the Indians. [HTMM] He moved to Edgartown before 1684 and was later the pastor there. [HTMM]
References:
OPP. William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620–1647, edited with and introduction and notes by Samuel Eliot Morison (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001).
NBS1. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 1, Court Orders, 1633–1640 (Boston: William White, 1855).
DC27. "Division of Cattle in 1627," Mayflower Descendant 1 (1899): 148–54.
DL21. "Division of Land," Mayflower Descendant 1 (1899): 227–30.
PCHP. Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History & People (Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1986), Appendix E (1623 land division).
HTMM. Thomas Weston, History of the Town of Middleborough, Massachusetts (New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1906), 41–42.
JEB. Mrs. John E. Barclay, "Notes on the Dunham Family of Flymouth, Mass.," The American Genealogist 30 (1954): 143–55.
Last revised: 10-Dec-2022