Philip Delano

Philip Delano (c. 1603 – c. 1681–82) was a passenger on the Fortune and an early citizen of Plymouth Colony.

[3][4][5][6] Philippe de Lannoy, later Philip Delano, was baptized in the Vrouwekerk, the Protestant Walloon church of Leiden, Holland on December 7, 1603.

His parents, Jan (Jean) de Lannoy of Tourcoing and Marie Mahieu of Lille (Rijsel) in Flanders, at that time in the Spanish Netherlands,[7] were betrothed on January 13, 1596, in the same church.

The Walloons were the French-speaking natives of the ancient region of Wallonia, now in today's Belgium,[7] to the east of Flanders.

Both parents made their way with their families to Leiden via Canterbury, England, having fled religious persecution from Flanders around 1579.

In November 1621, Philip Delano arrived in Plymouth Colony as a single man on the ship Fortune.

In 1627, after the institution of private property, Delano made the first recorded land sale in Plymouth to Stephen Deane.

[12] Philip Delano died in Duxbury, Plymouth Colony between August 22, 1681, and March 4, 1681/2.