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THOMAS DELANO (say 1639–1722/3), son of Philippe de la Noye and Hester Dewsbury
REBECCA ALDEN (b. say 1640), daughter of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins
Thomas Delano, the son of Philippe de la Noye (Delano) and Hester Dewsbery, was born say 1639. [1] Doctor Thomas Delano died in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts between 5 October 1722 and 22 April 1723. [2] He married Rebecca, the daughter of John Alden, by 1667. [1]
Thomas married a daughter of John Alden. There is some controversy over whether he married Rebecca or Mary. See Stratton. [3]
Rebecca Alden, the daughter of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, was born say 1640. [1]
Rebecca was "the subject of an unfound rumor" that she was pregnant on 1 October 1661. [1]
John and Rebecca were fined by the October 1667 court for fornication before marriage. [1]
Thomas Delano made his will on 5 October 1722. He left his children Benoni, David, and Sarah Drew each five shillings. He left his son Thomas half a lot in Middleborough, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. He left his Jonathan his beach lot, chest and sword. He left his daughter Mary Delano he best bed furniture, half his movables, both indoors and out, land in Middleborough and 20 shillings due from John Drew, Sr. of Middleborough. He left his daughter Ruth Drew his best bed and bolster, blanket and coverlet, and a quarter of his indoor movables. He left his granddaughter Deborah Weston a bed and bolster and a quarter of his indoor movables. He named his son Joseph his executor and left him half his outdoor movables and his branding irons. The witnesses, Hannah Alden, Samuel Weston, and Joshua Delano, testified on 22 April 1723 and probate was on 6 May 1723. Inventory, amounting to £79-05-06, less debts of £18-18-10 and including books, was presented by John Alden and Samuel Westen, and was testified to by Thomas's son Joseph on 27 May 1723. [2]
Children of Thomas Delano and Rebecca Alden:
i. Doctor Benoni Delano was born about 1667. He died before 27 April 1732. He married Elizabeth Drew, the sister of his sister Sarah's husband John. [4] She died before 21 August 1733.
Benoni was born less than nine months before Thomas and Rebecca were married. [4]
On 21 August 1733 Amassa Turner, cordwainer of Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts and wife of Rebecca, the daughter of Doctor Benoni Delano, signed a deed. For £12-10-00 he sold the rights of his wife Elizabeth in what his mother-in-law Elizabeth Delano was entitled to in the estate of her parents' John and Hannah Drew, late of Plymouth, deceased. [5]
Benoni died intestate and administration on his estate was granted on 27 April 1738. [5]
ii. Thomas Delano died in Falmouth, Maine. [4] He married as her second husband Hannah (Bryant) Bartlett. [4]
iii. Deborah Delano was probably born about 1672. [6] She died before October 1717. [6] She married John Weston about 1695. [4][6] John was born about 1662. [6] He married second Rebecca Peterson. [6] The widow Rebecca died in 17161, age 79. [6]
John was a farmer in Duxbury. [4]
iv. Jonathan Delano was born abut 1676. He died on 5 February 1765, age 89, in Duxbury. [7] He married Hannah Doty on 12 January 1698 in Duxbury. [4][7] Hannah was the granddaughter of Edward Doty of the Mayflower. [4] She was born about December 1676. Hannah, the wife of Jonathan, died on 12 April 1676, age 87 years and four months, in Duxbury. [7]
Jonathan was a yeoman in Duxbury. [4]
v. David Delano married Elizabeth Eddy. [4]
David was a husbandman in Middleborough. [4]
vi. Sarah Delano was born in 1676 in Plymouth. She married John Drew.
vii. Ruth Delano married as his second wife Samuel Drew, the brother of her sister Sarah's husband John. [4]
viii. Joseph Delano was born about August 1685. He died on 22 May 1770, age 84 years and nine months, in Duxbury. [7] He married as her second husband Hannah (Bartlett) Arnold. [4] Hannah was born about 1689. Hannah, the wife of Joseph, died on 16 January 1763, age 73, in Duxbury. [7] She married first Benjamin Arnold on 8 March 1713/4 in Duxbury. [7]
Joseph was a farmer in Duxbury. [4]
ix. Mary Delano was a beneficiary in her father's will.
Endnotes:
1. "Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620–1630," database with images, AmericanAncestors (2010):24, 519.
2. George Ernest Bowman, "Dr. Thomas Delano's Will and Inventory," Mayflower Descendant 6 (1904): 22–25.
3. Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History & People, 1620–1691 (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1986): 281.
4. Alicia Crane Williams, "The Alden Family: A Look at the First Four Generations," Mayflower Descendant 48 (1998): 107–10.
5. George Ernest Bowman, "The Wife of Dr. Benoni Delano and the Settlement of His Estate," Mayflower Descendant 20 (1918): 31–34.
6. Eugene A. Stratton, "Who Was Deborah Weston?" Mayflower Quarterly 46 (1980): 57–59.
7: Vital Records of Duxbury, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1911): 213, 244, 269–70.
Last revised: 24-Dec-2023