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<p>The progenitor of the <b>Delano family</b> in the Americas was <b>Philippe de Lannoy</b> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delano_family#cite_note-0"><span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0">[</sup></span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0">1<span>]</span></sup></a> whose family name was anglicized to Delano. The 19-year-old <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrim" title="Pilgrim">Pilgrim</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemish" title="Flemish">Flemish</a> descent arrived at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth,Massachusetts" title="Plymouth, Massachusetts">Plymouth, Massachusetts</a> on November 9, 1621 on the second Pilgrim ship, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Colony#Growth_of_Plymouth" title="Plymouth Colony"><i>Fortune</i></a>. His descendants include Philip Delano Jr., <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Adrian_Delano" title="Frederic Adrian Delano">Frederic Adrian Delano</a>, Jonathan Delano and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D.Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin Delano Roosevelt</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S.Grant" title="Ulysses S. Grant">Ulysses S. Grant</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge" title="Calvin Coolidge">Calvin Coolidge</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingalls_Wilder" title="Laura Ingalls Wilder">Laura Ingalls Wilder</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Redfield" title="Robert Redfield">Robert Redfield</a>, Captain <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Delano" title="Paul Delano">Paul Delano</a>, and <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_B.Shepard" title="Alan B. Shepard">Alan B. Shepard</a>. Delano family forebears include the Pilgrim who chartered the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower" title="Mayflower">Mayflower</a>, seven of its passengers and three signers of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower_Compact" title="Mayflower Compact">Mayflower Compact</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delano_family#cite_note-1"><span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1">[</sup></span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1">2<span>]</span></sup></a></p>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delano_family#Philippe_Delano_.28De_Lannoy.29"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Philippe Delano (De Lannoy)</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delano_family#Journey_to_America"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Journey to America</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delano_family#Life_in_America"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Life in America</span></a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delano_family#Descendants"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Descendants</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delano_family#References"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li>

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<h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Delano_family&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Philippe Delano (De Lannoy)">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Philippe_Delano_.28De_Lannoy.29">Philippe Delano (De Lannoy)</span></h2>

<p>Philippe de Lannoy was born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiden" title="Leiden">Leiden</a> on December 7, 1602 of religious refugee parents Jan Lano, born Jean de Lannoy in 1575 at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourcoing" title="Tourcoing">Tourcoing</a>, and Marie le Mahieu of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lille" title="Lille">Lille</a> both in the northern France. His parents were betrothed in the Leiden <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walloon_Church" title="Walloon Church">Walloon Church</a> on January 13, 1596. After his father died in 1604 at Leiden, his mother married Robert Mannoo of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namur_%28city%29" title="Namur (city)">Namur</a> on February 18, 1605. Philippe's grandfather, Guilbert de Lannoy of Tourcoing, was an early <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant" title="Protestant">Protestant</a> who left the mainland with his family for England probably in the late 1570s and then, in 1591, moved to Leiden, a safe harbor for religious dissidents. The le Mahieus arrived in Leiden from England around the same time. The family name <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Lannoy" title="De Lannoy">de Lannoy</a> probably derives from the town of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lannoy" title="Lannoy">Lannoy</a> (a name derived from the Latin <a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alnetum&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Alnetum (page does not exist)">alnetum</a> and French “<a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=L%E2%80%99aunaie&action=edit&redlink=1" title="L’aunaie (page does not exist)">l’aunaie</a>” meaning “alder plantation”), near Lille. There is no evidence to support claims that Philippe's father descended from the noble de Lannoys.</p>

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<p>Philippe de Lannoy's family was affiliated to the Leiden Walloon Church, indicating they were <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francophones" title="Francophones">Francophones</a> or speakers of a French dialect. While the timing and extent of his contact with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Robinson_%28pastor%29" title="John Robinson (pastor)">John Robinson</a> <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrim_Fathers" title="Pilgrim Fathers">Pilgrim</a> congregation in Leiden is unknown, Philippe eventually joined their voyage to the American continent.

The Leiden Pilgrims bought the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedwell%28ship%29" title="Speedwell (ship)"><i>Speedwell</i></a>. Although his name is not on the passenger list, Philippe is believed by a contemporary scholar to have joined his uncle <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Cooke" title="Francis Cooke">Francis Cooke</a> (husband of his mother's sister, Hester le Mahieu) and young cousin <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cooke" title="John Cooke">John Cooke</a> on the first stage of the voyage from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delfshaven" title="Delfshaven">Delfshaven</a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southampton" title="Southampton">Southampton</a> to meet the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower" title="Mayflower"><i>Mayflower</i></a>. They gathered in England with other Pilgrims and hireling colonizers to stage the onward voyage with the two ships. Barely into the Atlantic crossing, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedwell%28ship%29" title="Speedwell (ship)"><i>Speedwell</i></a> began to leak. This leakage forced the convoy to abort the voyage and return to England twice. After the second return, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower" title="Mayflower"><i>Mayflower</i></a> proceeded alone. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedwell%28ship%29" title="Speedwell (ship)"><i>Speedwell</i></a> was sold. Ten of its passengers, among them Francis and John Cooke, joined the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower" title="Mayflower"><i>Mayflower</i></a>. The remaining <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedwell%28ship%29" title="Speedwell (ship)"><i>Speedwell</i></a> passengers remained behind. Philippe joined a replacement ship, the "<a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fortune%28ship%29&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Fortune (ship) (page does not exist)">Fortune</a>", which sailed for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Colony" title="Plymouth Colony">Plymouth Colony</a> in early July 1621, arriving on November 9. It is possible that Philippe went separately to England rather than on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedwell%28ship%29" title="Speedwell (ship)"><i>Speedwell</i></a>.</p>

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<p>Philippe de Lannoy joined and resided with his uncle Francis Cooke and cousin Robert who had arrived on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower" title="Mayflower"><i>Mayflower</i></a> the year before. In 1623, he received a land grant in Plymouth but sold this property in 1627 and moved to <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duxbury%28town%29,Massachusetts" title="Duxbury (town), Massachusetts">Duxborough</a> where in 1634 he married <a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hester_Dewsbury&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Hester Dewsbury (page does not exist)">Hester Dewsbury</a> (1613–1657). There, Delano prospered and was part of the group who organized the construction of highways and bridges around the village.</p>

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He served in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pequot_War" title="Pequot War">Pequot War</a> of 1637 as a volunteer. In 1652 he joined with 35 other colonists to purchase with trading goods what was then called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth,Massachusetts#History" title="Dartmouth, Massachusetts">Dartmouth Township</a> from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massasoit" title="Massasoit">Massasoit</a>, the leader of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wampanoag" title="Wampanoag">Wampanoag</a> who drew the boundaries. It was sold to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Society_of_Friends" title="Religious Society of Friends">Religious Society of Friends</a> or Quakers, who wished to live outside the stringent religious laws of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritans" title="Puritans">Puritans</a>. Philippe gave his portion of the acquisition, amounting to 800 acres (3.2 km²), to his son <a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jonathan_Delano&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Jonathan Delano (page does not exist)">Jonathan Delano</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delano_family#cite_note-2"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></sup></a> Following the death of his wife, he married a second time to Mary Pontus. He died on August 22, 1681 in <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgewater%28town%29,_Massachusetts" title="Bridgewater (town), Massachusetts">Bridgewater, Massachusetts</a>. A great many of his offspring would become prominent mariners, whalers, and shipbuilders. The later commercial success of some Delanos was such that they would become part of the Massachusetts aristocracy, sometimes referred to as one of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Brahmin" title="Boston Brahmin">Boston Brahmins</a> (the "First Families of Boston").</p>

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<p>His son Jonathan married Mercy Warren, granddaughter of Mayflower passenger <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Warren" title="Richard Warren">Richard Warren</a>; among their direct descendants are the author <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingalls_Wilder" title="Laura Ingalls Wilder">Laura Ingalls Wilder</a>, President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S.Grant" title="Ulysses S. Grant">Ulysses S. Grant</a>, President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge" title="Calvin Coolidge">Calvin Coolidge</a> anthropologist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Redfield" title="Robert Redfield">Robert Redfield</a>, astronaut <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_B.Shepard" title="Alan B. Shepard">Alan B. Shepard</a>, and the poet <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Potter_Aiken" title="Conrad Potter Aiken">Conrad Potter Aiken</a>.</p>

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Over time, family members migrated to other states including Michigan, Maine, New York, Ohio, Virginia, Vermont and as far away as Chile where today descendants of Captain <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Delano" title="Paul Delano">Paul Delano</a> are numerous and prominent. From the New York clan, Sara Delano married James Roosevelt and their only child, Franklin Delano Roosevelt became <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President of the United States</a>.</p>

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