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(II) Epenetus, son of Deacon Richard Platt, was born in 1640 and baptized at New Haven, July 12. 1640. Ile died at IIunting- ton, Long Island in 1693. Ile and his brother Isaac were among the pioneer set- tlers in the town of Huntington, Long Is- land, and both were patentees there in 1072. He became a citizen of influence and sub- stance and was among those imprisoned by Andros in 1681 for resisting his tyranny. Ile married Phebe, probably daughter of Jonas Wood. Children: 1. Phebe, born March 19, 1060. 2. Mary, January 11, 1672. 3. Epenetus, April 4, 1074 : represented Suf- folk county from 171; to 1720 in the state colonial assembly. 4. Hannah, August 23. 1679. 5. Elizabeth, March 1, 1682. 6. Jonas. April 24. 1684 : mentioned below. 7.
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Jeremiah, . November 25, 1686. 8. Ruth, June 15, 1687. 9. Sarah, February 4, 1692. (III) Jonas, son of Epenetus Platt, was born at Huntington, Long Island, New York, April 24, 1684. He purchased the farm at Sunk Meadows owned by Jeremiah Platt, a descendant, and lived there from 1717 until the time of his death. His only son was Zephaniah, mentioned below.
(IV ) Zephaniah, son of Jonas Platt, was born in Huntington, New York, in 1704. died January 2, 1778. He favored the col- onies during the revolution and was im- prisoned by the British in New York. He was restored to liberty after a personal ap- peal made to Sir Henry Clinton by his daughter Dorothea, but he caught the small- pox while in prison and his death followed. He married (first) Hannah Saxton: ( sec- ond) Anna Smith, widow of Richard Smith and daughter of Job Smith. His sons, Ze- phaniah, Daniel, Charles and Nathaniel, bouglit military land warrants on Lake Champlain in 1784, surveyed the land and established the town of Plattsburgh, named for the family. Children, born at Hunting- ton : I. Jonas, 1731, died 1775: married Temperance Smith. 2. Zephaniah, men- tioned below. 3. Nathaniel, settled at Platts- burgh. 4. Charles, settled at Plattsburgh. 5. Hannah. 6. Elizabeth. Children of sec- ond wife: 7. Jeremiah, had the homestead at Smithtown, Long Island. 8. Daniel, set- tled at Plattsburgh. 9. Sarah. 10. Doro- thea.
(\') Judge Zephaniah ( 2), son of Zepha- niah ( 1) Platt, was born at lantington. May 27, 1735. He settled at Poughkeepsie, New York, where he lived for many years, then removed with his brothers to Platts- burgh. He was an ardent patriot during the revolution. He was a member of the New York convention of 1776 to form a constitution : of the committee of safety with John Jay from Dutchess county: member of the provincial congress ; was senator in 1778. and was one of the convention to vote for federal constitution. He was the first judge
of probate of Dutchess county, almost fr !! its origin in 1795; regent of the state un :- versity. The patentees of Plattsburgh of- fered ten lots of one hundred acres each : the first ten settlers who came there wit .. their families and a similar grant to the fir -: male child born there. Few families in No. York state have produced so many distin- guished citizens in the civil service. He dio: at Plattsburgh. September 12, ISO7, age : seventy-two years. He married ( first ) Hat nah Davis ; ( second ) Mary Van Wyck, bort June 20, 1743, died October. 1809, ago sixty-six. Children of first wife: 1. Ze- phanial, born January 3, 1756. 2. Han- nah, March 26, 1758. Children of secon wife : 3. Theodorus, March 23. 1763 : firs: surrogate of Clinton county, 1788. 4. Eliza- beth. April 12, 1765, died February 7, 178 ;: married General John Smith. 5. Mary, July 12, 1767; died young. 6. Jonas, June 3. . 1769: member of the New York assembly : member of congress; of the state sent. judge of the supreme court : married Hek: Livingston. 7. William Pitt, April 30, 177 !. mentioned below. 8. Charles, July 22. 1773 member of the New York assembly : live. in Oneida county ; state treasurer in 1813 9. Nathaniel, December 16, 1775. 10. R'- ert. October 21, 1778, member of the a .. sembly from Clinton county in 1814, fre Franklin county in 1815: married Mas Daggett. 11. Mary, August 21, 1780; me- ried Abraham Brinkerhoff. 12. Levi, A: 17, 1782. 13. David. June 6, 1784. 1: James. January 2, 1788; mayor of Oswer in 1848, state senator, 1850-53: marii Eliza, daughter of Floyd and Susan X ( Woolsey ) Aucamuty.
(VI) Deacon William Pitt, son of Jude Zephaniah (2) Platt, was born at Platt- burgh, April 30, 1771. He was a farm. and large land owner. His home was Cumberland Head, the scene of the bat! of Plattsburgh in 1814. He was an hones earnest and energetic man, of strong ( vietions and outspoken opinions. He d" August 13, 1835, aged sixty-four. He m.
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ried. October 11, 1790, Hannah, daughter of Moss and Hannah ( Rogers) Kent. ( See Rogers V.) She was of superior culture and intellect, and though totally blind during the last twenty years of her life, her features were still full of the beauty of her youth to the end of her life, and she was ever bright, attractive and always gentle, affectionate and cheerful in her spirit and her manners to all around her. She had at her command a large fund of anecdotes and pleasing rem- iniscences and delighted in sharing them with a charming enthusiasm of her own. Children, born at Plattsburgh: 1. James Kent, February II, 1792, died April 4, 1824; fitted for college by his uncle, Moss Kent; graduated at the Medical College at Middlebury. Vermont ; continued the study of medicine in London and Continental hos- pitals and schools : began to practice mnedi- cine in partnership with Dr. B. J. Mooers, of Plattsburgh : appointed professor in the med- ical department of Burlington College, Ver- mont. and gave one course of lectures be- fore he was obliged by ill health to resign; two children. died- young. 2. Zephaniah, Au- gust 12. 1794: married. February 3, 1828. Lucretia. daughter of Thomas Miller : chil- dren : i. Elizabeth, died young. ii. Mary. died March 29, 1880; married James West- cott and Edmund Hathaway. 3. Mary, July 15. 1796; mentioned below. 4. William, February 25, 1799, died February 10, 1829. t. Elizabeth, May 16. 1806; mentioned be- Dow. 6. Hon. Moss Kent, May 3, 1809; mentioned below.
(VII) Mary, daughter of Deacon William Pitt Platt, was born at Plattsburgh, July 15. 1796, died April 8. 1868. aged seventy- two years. She married Dr. Benjamin John Movers, son of John Movers, of Haverhill. Massachusetts, and Plattsburgh, New York. Dr. Mooers was a useful citizen and a skill- tal physician. Children, born at Platts- Jurgh: 1. Eliza Mooers, July 24, 1815 : mar- red Amherst Douglas Fouquet ; children : : Susan Abigail Fouquet, born March 9. 1837 : married P. Tenney Gates; ii. Mary
Platt Fouquet. October 22, 1842, married Archibald Achison; iii. Elizabeth Platt Fou- quet, December 13, 1848; iv. Anna Douglas Fouquet, April 5, 1848. 2. Susan Mooers. August 27, 1818, died April 8, 1822. 3. Hannah Maria Mooers, November 27. 1821; married Theodore Platt Cady, of Plattsburgh, and ( second ) De Witt Clinton Boynton; children: i. Pauline Cady, born August 25, 1840, married Chauncey Stod- dard; ii. Hiram Wentworth Cady, Novem- ber 19. 1842, married Augusta Wood and has Theodore and Catherine Wood Cady; iii. Benjamin Mooers Cady. April 6, 1845. married Ella Wood and had Frederick Mooers Cady and Walworth Cady; iv. The- odore Cady, April 14. 1847. married Robert Bailey. 4. William Pitt Platt Mooers. Jan- uary 9. 1824; married. January 27. 1846, Marian Catherine Boynton : he was a mer- chant in Plattsburgh: member of the as- sembly. 18-8-80; treasurer of Clinton coun- ty. 1855-57: treasurer. 1864-66 of the Whitehall & Plattsburgh Railroad Company and for nearly thirty years director of the First National Bank: children: i. John Boynton Mooers, died young ; ii. Moss Platt Mooers, born 1850, died September, 1877; iii. William Boynton Mooers. 1855, mar- ried Jeanette McCain and had Benjamin Knox Mooers: iv. Catherine Maria Mooers, 1860, married Andrew Mount Platt; v. Mary Helen Movers, 1870. 5. Mary Mooers, July 11, 1825; married, June 1, 1842, Ar- nold Stukeley Stoddard. born August 26. 1816, in Peru, New York, son of Chauncey and Matilda ( Arnold ) Stoddard. of Wood- bury, Connecticut ; settled in St. Louis, Mis- souri : children : i. Matilda Arnold Stoddard, born May 25, 1844; married P. C. Docley. lawyer, of Little Rock, Arkansas; ii. Eliza Fouquet Stoddard, March 31, 1846, mar- ried Charles H. Peck, Jr., of St. Louis, Mis- souri ; iii. Mary Mooers Stoddard, Novem- ber 3, 1851, married --- Drummond, of Little Rock. 6. Dr. John Henry Mcoers, November 27. 1827: married Helen Boyn- ton; he was assistant surgeon in the Union
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army in 1861, Sixteenth New York Regi- ment, later surgeon in the One Hundred and Eighteenth Regiment of New York to the end of the civil war; was killed in 1868 in an expedition against the Indians under Col- onel Forsythe; child, John Boynton Mooers. 7. Moss Kent Mooers, died young. 8. Ren- main Mooers, died young. 9. Sophia Whit- side Mooers, July 26, 1829; married Wil- liam Demming Morgan ; children: i. Lucy Morgan, born October 29, 1850; ii. Eliza- beth Morgan, February 6, 1857, died 1882; iii. Platt Morgan, September 8, 1860. 10. Robert Mooers, 1835, civil engineer and surveyor, removed to Decorah, Iowa, about 1858; married Phebe Edwards; raised a company of which he was captain in the Fifth Minnesota Regiment, Colonel San- born ; he was killed in the battle of Corinth. Mississippi, in 1862; only child, Ellen Ed- wards Mooers.
(VII) Elizabeth, daughter of Deacon William Pitt Platt. was born in Plattsburgh, May 15, 1806. She married Henry Keich- um Averill, who died March 31, 1841. Of Mrs. Averill, Chancellor Kent wrote: "She has been greatly affected during her life with bodily infirmities-a fact which at- tracted her friends all the more strongly to her by the power of sympathy. She was a woman of strong mind and of strong feel- ings and of great energy and decision of character. She had won deeply upon my respect and regard for her." Children: I. James Kent Averill. born March 10. 1825 : lawyer of Champlain ; married Jeanette Ev- ans, of Grafton, Vermont: children: i. Su- san A., married Sylvester Alonzo Kellogg. state senator of Nevada, 1864-66, district attorney Clinton county, 1874-75. judge in 1882 and afterward: children : Ralph .Aver- ill, Henry Theodore. George Casper and Augusta Kellogg : ii. Jeanette Evans Averill. married Royal Corbin, lawyer of Platts- burgh ; ili. Mary B. Averill. married Henry Hoyle, of Champlain : iv. James Averill. 2. Henry Ketcham Averill. Jr., born March 26. 1830: civil engineer and surveyor at Platts-
burgh; married Almira Elizabeth Miller ; children : Charles K. Averill, died young : Frank Lloyd Averill, Maria Elizabeth Aver- ill, Grace Platt Averill. 3. Mary Elizabeth Averill, born July 19, 1831 ; married Perry E. Burch: children : Martha Laura Burch, Mary Burch, Jeanette or Jeannie Burch. William Pitt Burch.
(VII) Hon. Moss Kent, son of Deacon William Pitt Platt, was born at Plattsburgh, May 3, 1809. He began life as clerk in a country store without the advantages of a classical or college education. He attended the district school of his native town during the short terms in which it was kept during his boyhood. From 1823 to 1830 he was clerk in a store. Upon coming of age he engaged in business as a general merchant and manufacturer of iron. He was promi- ment in business and distinguished in public life. He was interested in politics and all public affairs and assisted every movement for the welfare of the community in which he lived. He was state senator from the sixteenth district of New York in IS66-67. serving on important committees and wield- ing a large and beneficial influence in the halls of legislation, by virtue of his supe- rior judgment, his keen insight and eloquent speech. In 1868 he was a Republican elec- tor from the state of New York. In 1872 he was appointed inspector of state prison -. and he found in this office a larger sphere of usefulness and activity. He enjoyed the active duties of the position, because he had the opportunity of accomplishing much in improving the methods and conditions .: the prisons of the state and of incalcaire modern views of punishment for crime. Ili- work was of lasting benefit to the unfortu- nate prisoner- and even more, it is believed. to the state itself. Ile was for many year- ruling elder of the Presbyterian church & Plattsburgh, and in his daily life and con- duet an exemplary and consistent Christia' gentleman. He was of kindly and almost courtly manners, full of charity and .it pathy for the weak, suffering and unfortu-
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nate. He gave of his substance freely in benevolence and in the church. He died March, 1876. He married ( first ) October 14, 1830, Elizabeth, born September 5, ISto, daughter of John George and Betsey ( Dea- ning) Freligh, of Bennington, Vermont. She died March 25, 1866, and he married ( second ) her half-sister, May 20, 1858, Margaret Anne, daughter of John George and Margaret Olive (Savage) Freligh. His widow died January, 1908, aged ninety-four years. Children, all by first wife: 1. Han- nah Kent, born October 27, 1832: married, September 26. 1853. Joseph Mathew Myers, son of Lawrence and Maria Delia ( Kirt- land) Myers, of Plattsburgh: she died Au- gust 9, 1856: children: i. Elizabeth Platt Myers, born January 20, 18;6, died July 25. 1856; ii. Joseph Myers, resides at Plain- field. New Jersey. 2. Lucy Maria, born May 15. 1835 ; married, November 27. 1856. John lemuel Stetson, son of Hon. Lemuel and Helen ( Haskell) Stetson : he was a lawyer in Plattsburgh, active in raising the Fifty- ninth Regiment, and was commissioned its lieutenant-colonel ; was killed in battle Sep- tember 17, 1862, shouting as he fell : "Men, rally to your colors!" 3. John Freligh, born October 19, 1837. died February 25. 1858. in senior year in Williams College. 4. Sar- ah Elizabeth. born October 6. 1839: mar- ried, October 17, 1859. William Ainsworth Fuller, of Plattsburgh, son of William and Eliza (Orsen ) Fuller : a merchant : of their nine children three grew to maturity: i. Margaret Platt Fuller, born May 27. 1866; ii. Moss Kent Fuller, May 9. 1868: iii. Elizabeth Freligh Fuller, September 9. 1874. 5. Margaret Freligh, mentioned below.
(VIII) Margaret Freligh, daughter of Moss Kent Platt, was born at Plattsburgh. November 30, 1843. She was educated in the public schools of her native city and at Montreal Seminary. She has been active and prominent in social life in Plattsburgh .nd in various organizations of which she iv a member. She was the second regent of the Saranae Chapter. Daughters of the
American Revolution, of Plattsburgh. She married. August 29, 1866, Michael Peter Myers, a native of Plattsburgh, son of Law- rence and Maria Delia ( Kirtland ) Myers. and for many years a prominent merchant there. Mr. Myers was a director of the Plattsburgh National Bank. In politics he was a Republican, in religion a Presbyterian. He took an active interest in public affairs and in every effort to improve the city, and was accounted one of its most public-spirited citizens. He died in 1891. at his home in Plattsburgh. Their only child was John Platt Myers. born at Plattsburgh, June 1. 1886: graduate of Princeton College in the class of 1908: now clerk with the American Note Company, of New York City.
(The Rogers Line).
James Rogers, immigrant ancestor, was born in England in 1615, and came at the age of twenty to New London, Connecticut. He afterward settled at Stratford, Connecti- cut, and finally in Milford. He was a sol- dier in the Pequot war.
(II) James (2), son of James ( 1 ) Rog- ers, born February 15, 1652, at Milford, was baptized by Key. Jolin Crandall, of Wes- terly, Rhode Island. He was persecuted and imprisoned by the authorities for allegiance to the faith of the sect known as the Rog- erenes. He died November 6, 1714, or Oc- tober 8, 1713. The date of his inventory is November 12. 1713. He married. Novem- ber 5, 1674. Mary, daughter of Jeffrey Jor- dan. She died February 7. 1713. Their children were all born in New London, Con- nectient.
( III) James (3), son of James (2) Rog- ers, was born February 2. 1075. died July 9, 1735. in Norwalk. Connecticut. He was a deputy to the general assembly and once speaker of the house. His farm was at Great Neck. He soll it in 1726 to Philip Tabor and removed about the same time to Norwalk. He married Elizabeth -.
( IV) Dr. Uriah, son of James (3) Kog- ers. was born October 10, 1710. He mar-
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ried, 1734, Hannah, born October 23, 1713, daughter of James Lockwood, of Norwalk. and Lydia Lockwood, daughter of Samuel Smith. He was a man of sterling charac- ter and importance in the community, and a physician of considerable reputation. He died May, 1733, aged sixty-three; his wife died at Redding, Fairfield county, Connecti- cut, October 8. 1794, aged eighty-one years, leaving nine children.
(V) Hannalı, daughter of Dr. Uriah Rogers, was born June 7, 1735. She mar- ried, November 27. 1760, Moss Kent, born January 14, 1733, son of Rev. Elisha Kent. His father was born July 9, 1704, and grad- uated at Yale College in 1729: was a Pres- byterian minister, settled at Newtown. Con- necticut, from 1740. and later at what was known as Kent's Parish in Putnam county, New York, where he died, July 17. 1776. His wife, Hannah, was daughter of Rev. Joseph Moss. of Derby, Connecticut. Moss Kent graduated from Yale College in the class of 1752, and was admitted to the bar of Dutchess county, New York, June. 1755: resided at Frederickstown on the Croton river, where he practiced law and conducted his farm; removed to Green's Farms in 1776 and to Lansingburg. New York : was a jus- tice of the peace and surrogate. Mrs. Kent died December 30, 1770. Their son, Chan- cellor James Kent, was born July 31. 1763. Among their other children was Hannah Kent. born October 10, 1768: married. Oc- tober 11, 1790. Deacon William Pitt Platt. ( See Platt VI.)
The descendants of the Pil- DE LANO grim ancestor. Philip De Lano, have the satisfaction of tracing their ancestry in the old country for a dozen centuries. They have estab- lished the full right to bear the arms of the De Lano family, which could be of no better stock, and which embraces a host of distinguished men in its numbers.
The name is derived from the town of Lannoy, a few miles from Isla, now Lille.
France. Away back in A. D. 863. this to :: . was called Alnetum, later L'Annois a: Lannoy. The meaning of the word is t ::.- known. It has been spelled L'Annois, L' !. . noe, L'Aulmaiss, L'Auloy, but more of Alnetum. To-day, Lannoy is a small mar .:: facturing town, seven miles from Liik with a population at the last censuis of 1,90: The first Lord of Lannoy, progenitor of t': family, was Hugues de Lannoy, mention .. as a knight of Tournai D'Auclin in 109h On the same list was Simon de Alneto. .: charte des Chanoines (cannon) de St. I' :. erre at Lille mentions Gilbert de Lannoy !": II71 and Hugues de Lannoy is mentione . in 1186. It is impossible to present in th :- place an extended history of the family it. its early days in France. That has been. done with remarkable care and apparent :. . curacy in the genealogy, which is author :: for all said here about the origin and ear !; history of the family. There seems to be n flaw in the following pedigree in the dire . male line of the immigrant, Philip Delar. or Delanoy.
(I) Arnulphe de Franchmont. 2. Conra ! de Franchmont. 3. Hellin, Marquis d. Franchmont, married Agnes, daughter : Othon, Duke of Bavaria. 4. Hellin II Franchmont. married Agnis de Duras. Jean de Franchmont, married Mahienne : Lannoy. 6. Hugues de Lannoy. 7. Hugue de I.annoy. 8. Guillebert de Lannoy. y Baudoin "Le Begue." 10. Baudouin. 1: Philipe. 12. Jean, born about 1511, dir : May 25, 1560; was made chevalier de :. Toison d'or in 1546: chamberlain to t' emperor Charles V. from 1519 to 155' gouvernor de Haymont and captain gener . of same province of Flanders in 1550: ma ried Jeanne de Ligne de Barbancon, dati- ter of Louis de Ligne, seigneur de Barh :: con and his wife, Marie de Berghes. Gysbert de Lannoy. born at Tourcoi" 1545, of Roman Catholic parents. but : came a Protestant and was disinherited! ! his father. 14. Jean of Leyden, was h 1570, died at Leyden, 1604. He married!
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the Walloon church ( Tornai), January 13, 1596, Marie le Mahieu, of a Brabant fam- ily. 15. Philip, the American emigrant, see below.
It is shown that the Delanoy family for all these centuries remained pure Norman and Flemish blood, never intermarrying with the French race. The following lines of descent show some of the royal ancestors of Philip Delano.
(I) Huolf, first Duke of the Normans, a Viking, A. D., 860. 2. William Longsword, Duke of the Normans. 3. Richard, the Fearless. 4. Richard, the Good. 5. Robert I, the Devil. 6. William, the Conqueror, King of England, Duke of Normandy. 7. Ilenry I, "Beauclerc." 8. Matilda, married Geoffrey Plantagenet. 9. Henry II, King of England, 1154 to 1199. 10. Matilda, married Henry V. Duke of Saxony and Ba- varia. 11. Henry VI, married Agnes. daughter of Conrad, son of Frederick I, a descendant of Alfred the Great (849), Cer- dic (495) and other ancient English noble and royal personages. 12. Agnes, married Otlion, Duke of Bavaria. 13. Agnes, mar- ried Hellin de Franchmont. 14. Hellin II. 15. Jean de Franchmont, born about 1300. 16. Hugues de Lannoy, born 1311, died 1310. 17. Guillebert. 18. Baudouin, Le Begul. 19. Baudouin. 20. Phillippe. 21. Jean, died 1560. 22. Gysbert, born 1545. 23. Jean. of Leyden. 24. Phillippe, the emi- grant mentioned below.
The line of Philip Delano is traced to Charlemagne and his ancestors to the year A. D., 611, viz. : 1. St. Arnoul, (611). 2. Aregise, A. D., 679. 3. Pepin, Le Gros, 711. 4. Charles Nartel. Duke of the Franks, ;6%. 5. Pepin, "the short" King of France, UN. 6. Emperor Charlemagne. Soo. 7. Pepin, King of Italy. 8. Bernard, King of Italy. 9. Pepin HI. 10. Pepin. Compte de Vermandois. 11. Beatrix, married Robert. Duke of France. 12. Hugue the Great. 13. Hague Capet. King of France. 14. Robert !! Saint, King of France. 15. Alix de France, married Boudouin, fifth count of
Flanders. 16. Judith, married Guelph, Duke of Bavaria. 17. Henry III. 18. Henry IV. 19. Henry V. 20. Henry V'I, where the line connects with the one previously given.
Another pedigree connects Philip Delano with Priam. King of the Franks, in 382, and still another with Guelph, Prince of the Scyrri, A. D., 476. Of course, the royal ancestors of any family are legion in case any connection is established, for the con- stant intermarriages connect the ruling families of all nations to some extent. The royal and some of the noble family genealo- gies are available, of course.
(1) Philip Delano, immigrant ancestor, was born in Leyden, Holland. 1602, and baptized there, 1603. His parentage and ancestors are given above. The Delano family went to Leyden to escape persecu- tion in France, where the Catholic party was in power and the Inquisition active. They were French Protestants or Huguenots. Philip grew up under the teachings of the separatists of the established church of Eng- land, who fled to Holland in 1608 to abide in Leyden. Thus he became affiliated withi the Pilgrims who came over in the "May- flower." and it is believed that he started in the first company that came to Plymouth in that vessel. He is supposed to have come in the companion ship. the "Speedwell." which sailed from Southampton for America, but had to put into Dartmouth on account of a leak. She sailed again, August 31, after re- pairs were made, but sprung a leak once more, and returned to Plymouth. England, where the voyage was abandoned and eigh- teen of the passengers who could not be ac- commodated on the "Mayflower." including Robert Cushman, remained in England until the "Fortune" sailed next summer. At any rate, Philip Delano came to America on the ship "Fortune" in 1621, then aged nine- teen years. In 1624 he had an acre of land granted him at Plymouth. but gave it up as he settled in Duxbury. Winslow is author- ity for the statement that the name was formerly De La Noye. The records also
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give five more spellings : Dillanee, Dillnoe, Dilnow, Dillno and Delanoy. The correct form of the name given by the genealogist is Delano de Lannoy. The arms of the tam- ily : Argent, a chevron between three boars' heads, sable.
Philip was admitted a freeman January I. 1632-33. His farm at Duxbury. granted October 2. 1637. was north of Stony or Mill brook, below the site of the late tack factory. It was bounded by lands of Morse Bumpas and Alden and comprised forty acres. He was often employed in the early day as surveyor of lands, and frequently served on the grand jury. He was a volun- teer in the Pequot war. June 7. 1637. He died at Bridgewater. Massachusetts, about 16SI, aged seventy-nine years. The probate court was not established until 1685 and his estate was settled according to the records in the registry of deeds, July 5. 1682. He died intestate, but left a memorandum ex- pressing his wishes and intent. and this non- cupative will was allowed July 7. 1682. He married (first ) at Duxbury, December 19. 1634, Hester Dewsbury, of Duxbury. He married (second) at Duxbury, 1657. Mary Pontus, widow of James Glass, daughter of William Pontus. Children of first wife: I. Mary, born 1635: married Jonathan Dun- ham. 2. Esther. 1638. 3. Philip, Jr .. about 1640; married Elizabeth Clark. 4. Thomas. doctor, March 21. 1642: married Mary Al- den. 5. John. about 1644. 6. James, died unmarried. 7. Lieutenant Jonathan. men- tioned below. 8. Rebecca, about 1651 ; mar- ried John Churchill. Child of the second wife: 9. Samuel, 1659: married Elizabeth Standish.
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