"Delano Notes," by the editor, The Mayflower Descendant 11 (1909)

Abstracts and transcripts from the original records about Philip Delano of Plymouth and Duxbury, read in the archive.org full text.

• Philip Delano to William Earle, 1659 (Plym. Col. Deeds 2:2:41; MD 11:249-250): “Phillip Delano senir: with the Consent of Mary his wife” acknowledged the sale of half his purchase lands “att Coaksett or Cushena or both” to William Earle for £20, paid in part with “a young mare att eight pounds,” with “twelve ewe sheep to bee Delivered att his house att Duxburrow next yeare which wilbee in the yeare 1660.” Before John Alden, Assistant, Duxbury, 3d of the 10th month (December) 1659.
• Settlement of Philip Delano’s estate, 1682 (Plym. Col. Wills 4:2:120; MD 11:250-251): the inventory “taken … this 4th of March 1681/2,” exhibited 7 July 1682 on the oath of his son Samuel, personal estate only, £50 13s. The agreement of 5 July 1682: he “Did somtime before his Death verbally expresse himselfe Concerning the Desposall of his estate,” and “either through some forgetfullnes of his Memory or humaine Infeirmitie or the witnesses unaquaintednes” the memorandum of 22 Aug 1681 seemed to vary from his intent; his son Thomas, executor, and “his son Samuell Delano onely son to the Relict” agreed to follow his real will. House and land to his three eldest sons; John 25 acres more “att Namassakett”; Samuel “a horse Cow & 2 steers and chaine and Cart” and “The saw and wedges”; “Jane one Cow & heifer”; “Rebeckah a yeerling heiffer”; “his wife a Cow” and the use of a third of “the orchyard and land both upland and meddow During her life”; “The yoake of old oxen to be Improved in Comon amongst his three sonnes Phillip Thomas and Samuell”; five shillings to each of his seven eldest children; the movables at his wife’s death to his four youngest children.
• Samuel Delano to John Churchill, 1693/4 (Plym. Co. Deeds 1:312-313; MD 11:251-252): “Samuel Delano of the Town of Duxborough … husbandman,” reciting that “my Grandfather William Pontus late of plimouth deceased” had “one whole share of land at Namasket alias Middleborough,” settled by the court on 3 May 1664 on “Mary Delano and hannah Churchell the daughters of ye said deceased,” sold for £14 to “John Churchell, of Plymouth, weaver” his moiety of it, except his rights in the Major’s Purchase. Dated 1 Jan 1693/4, signed by mark; acknowledged with his wife Elizabeth 2 Jan 1693/4; recorded 15 Jan 1694/5.

The administration granted to Samuel Delano on 7 July 1682, with Thomas Delano bound with him for £150, is in the court orders (PCR 6:91).