Philip Delano

Philip Delano (c. 1603 - c. 1681-82) arrived in Plymouth Colony in November 1621 on the voyage of the ship Fortune. He was about 16 years of age on arrival and may have been a servant of one of the Fortune passengers. Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke was his uncle with whom he may initially have resided. Philip Delano lived a long life in Plymouth Colony where he became a person of some note, being involved in numerous governmental activities such as civil commissions and juries. Among his early activities was in becoming a very young (investment) Purchaser in 1626 and making the first recorded land sale in Plymouth after the institution of private property. At his death it is believed he had become a person of some wealth.

Philip Delano died in Duxbury, Massachusetts between August 22, 1681 and March 4, 1681/82. His burial place is unknown.

French language and Walloon ancestry

Philip Delano was baptized in the Waloon church of Leiden, Holland on November 6, 1603. His parents are recorded as Jan de Lano of Tourcoing and Mary Mahieu of Lille in French Flanders, who were betrothed on January 13, 1596 in the same Walloon church. His father died within a year or two, and his mother became betrothed to Robert Mannoo, a woolcomber from Namur in Wallonia on February 18, 1605. Philip grew up in Leiden, but further details are unknown. Per author Eugene Stratton, Philip was a member of the Separatist church in Leiden, born of French parents and had been in communion with the French (Walloon) church. In the 17th century the Walloons were French-speaking people (Protestants or Catholics) from the Low Countries, in today's Belgium and French Flanders.