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PHILIPPE DE LA NOYE (de Lannoy, Delano) (bp. 1603–1681/2)
HESTER DEWSBURY (say 1611–by 1654)
Ancestry of Philip Delano [4]
Guilbert de Lannoy was born about 1545, possibly in Tourcoing, Flanders. He married Jeanne du Bas, who was baptized on 9 May 1575 in Tourcoing. They fled to England about 1579.
Children:
i. Marguerite de Lannoy was born in Tourcoing. She married first Olivier de Plaes about August 1592. He died before 14 June 1603, probably in Leiden. She married second Jean de Rousseau on 14 March 1604 in Leiden.
ii. Jean de Lannoy was baptized on 9 May 1575 in St. Christopher, Tourcoing.
iii. Noelle de Lannoy
iv. Antoinette de Lannoy
v. Pierre de Lannoy was born about 1580 in Poperinge, Flanders. He married Catherine Famineel about February 1599 in Leiden.
vi. Marie de Lannoy was born in Canterbury. She married Marcus du Saert about 1611.
vii. Jeanne
de Lannoy was born in Canterbury. She married Jean de Soetere about November 1614 in Leiden.
Jean de Lannoy was baptized on 9 May 1575 in St. Christopher, Tourcoing. He died before 6 June 1640, probably in Leiden. He married Marie Mahieu about January 1596. She was born about 1577 in Lille, France. Marie was the sister of Hester (Mahieu) Cooke, wife of Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke. She grew up in Canterbury.
Children: (possibly there were more; the Leiden registers do not exist until 1599)
i. Isaiah de Lannoy was baptized on 26 March 1599 in Hanou, Hesse.
ii. Jeanne de Lannoy was baptized on 18 March 1601 in Leiden.
iii. Philippe de Lannoy was baptized on 7 December (or 6 November) in Leiden.
Philippe (Philip) de la Noye (de Lannoy, Delano), the son of Jan de Lannoy and Marie Mahieu, was baptized on 7 December (or 6 November) 1603 in the Walloon Church in Leiden, Holland. [1] He died between 22 August 1681 and 4 March 1681/2. [1] Phillip Delanoy married first Hester Dewsbury on 19 December 1634 in Plymouth. [2] He married second Mary (Pontus) Glass on 17 January 1653/4. [1]
Hester was born say 1611. She died before 17 January 1653/4.
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. [3, ch. 3, fn. 9]
English presents a history of Philip's family—including their detour to Canterbury, county Kent England, with substantial historical and social context. [4]
Philip (Philippe) was a fisherman and planter. [1]
Land was divided in Plymouth in 1623, with each household receiving an acre per member. Philippe de la Noye and Moses Simonson, who arrived on the Fortune in November 1621 shared a two-acre lot. [5][6]
Phillip was in the first lot of the division of cattle in 1627 in Plymouth. [7]
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 court's first acts was to order the collection of taxes. The taxes, collected 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. [2]
By an order of 2 January 1633/4, he paid a tax of nine shillings. [2]
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. [2] He was on a jury empaneled to lay out highways about Plymouth, Duxbury and Eel River on 2 May 1637. [2]
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. [2]
On 2 October 1637 Phillip was granted 40 acres on the Duxbury side. [2]
He was on a grand jury on 4 June 1639, 2 June 1646. [2] He was on the trial jury on 7 June 1648, 6 June 1649. [NBS2]
Children of Philip Delano and Hester Dewsbury:
i. Mary Delano married Lieutenant Jonathan Dunham as his first wife on 29 November 1655. [8][9] Jonathan, the son of Deacon John Dunham of Plymouth, died on 17 December 1718, age 85. [8] He married second Mary 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. [8] He later moved to Plymouth and became a minister to the Indians. [8] He moved to Edgartown, Dukes County, Massachusetts before 1684 and was later the pastor there. [8]
ii. Philip Delano was born say 1637. [1] He married Elizabeth, the daughter of Samuel Sampson. [1]
iii. Thomas Delano was born say 1639. He died between 5 October 1722 and 22 April 1723 in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. He married Rebecca Alden.
iv. John Delano was born say 1644. [1] He married Mary, the daughter of Thomas Weston of Duxbury. [1]
v. Lieutenant Jonathan Delano was born about 1648. [1] He died on 28 December 1720 in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts. [1] He married Mercy, the daughter of Nathaniel Warren and granddaughter of Richard Warren. [1]
Children of Philip Delano and Mary (Pontus) Glass:
vi. Jane Delano was born say 1655. [1] She was living in 1682, but there is no further record of her. [1]
vii. Esther Delano was born say 1657. [1] She probably died by 1682. [1]
viii. Samuel Delano was born say 1659. [1] He married Elizabeth, the daughter of Alexander Standish. [1]
ix. Rebecca Delano was born say 1661. [1] She married John Churchill. [1]
References:
1. "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620–1633, Volumes I-III," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally published as: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 3 volumes (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 517–21.
2. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 1, Court Orders, 1633–1640 (Boston: William White, 1855).
3. William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620–1647, edited with and introduction and notes by Samuel Eliot Morison (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001).
4. George English, "Ancestry and History of Philip Delano," Mayflower Descendant 69 (2021): 5–29.
5. "Division of Land," Mayflower Descendant 1 (1899): 227–30.
6. Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History & People (Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1986), Appendix E (1623 land division).
7. "Division of Cattle in 1627," Mayflower Descendant 1 (1899): 148–54.
8. Thomas Weston, History of the Town of Middleborough, Massachusetts (New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1906), 41–42.
9. Mrs. John E. Barclay, "Notes on the Dunham Family of Flymouth, Mass.," The American Genealogist 30 (1954): 143–55.
Last revised: 27-Dec-2023