Individual Details
Benoni DELANO
(30 Oct 1667 - 5 Apr 1738)
He played a part in a youthful rebellion. According to Mayflower Descendants, Alden, p 148, “the young men” of Duxbury petitioned the town meeting of Feb 1709/10 as a result of being excluded from the first division of land. They demanded a half share in the first division or a whole share in the second. The two agreed to include them in the second division, but Benoni was unsatisfied. He and Abram Samson, Jr, each demanded forty acres in the first division. It’s unclear how this claim was resolved.
He died at the age of 71 on 5 April 1738 and is buried in the South Duxbury Cemetery. He was then called “Dr Benoni”. Because drugs were found in his inventory, it’s possible that he acted as a physician. (Mayflower Descendants, Alden, p 148)
Events
| Birth | 30 Oct 1667 | Duxbury, Plymouth, British America |  |  | |
| Marriage | Bef 1697 | Elizabeth DREW | | | |
| Death | 5 Apr 1738 | Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States | | ||
| Burial | Aft 5 Apr 1738 | Myles Standish Burying Grounds, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British America | |
Families
| Spouse | Elizabeth DREW (1673 - 1733) |
| Child | Hannah DELANO (1697 - 1719) |
| Child | Beriah DELANO (1698 - 1748) |
| Child | Rebecca DELANO (1702 - 1738) |
| Child | Lemuel DELANO 1st (1712 - 1778) |
| Father | Dr Thomas DELANO (1639 - 1723) |
| Mother | Rebecca ALDEN (1643 - 1688) |
| Sibling | Thomas DELANO 2nd (1669 - 1724) |
| Sibling | Deborah DELANO (1672 - 1715) |
| Sibling | Jonathan DELANO Sr (1675 - 1765) |
| Sibling | David DELANO (1677 - ) |
| Sibling | Mary DELANO (1679 - ) |
| Sibling | Sarah DELANO (1681 - ) |
| Sibling | Ruth DELANO (1683 - ) |
| Sibling | Joseph DELANO (1685 - ) |
Notes
Birth
Mayflower Descendants, Alden, p 52 points out that this is also the court date where Thomas and Rebecca were accused of fornication. This seems like an unlikely coincidence.Marriage
Three children of John Drew and Hannah Churchill--Elizabeth, John and Samuel--married three children of Dr Thomas Delano and Rebecca Alden--Benoni, Sarah, and Ruth, respectively.Endnotes
1. Maj Joel Andrew Delano, (compiler), The genealogy, history and alliances of the American house of Delano, 1621 to 1899: with the history and heraldry of the maison de Franchimont and de Lannoy to Delano, 1096 to 1621, and the royal ancestry of Lannoy from Guelph, prince of the Scyrri, to Phillippe de Lannoy, 476 A. D. to 1621, including other royal lines and a list of the Lannoy chevaliers de la toison d'or [golden fleece] (New York: [n.p.], 1899), p 154; digital images, Open Library, Open Library (https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23693816M/The_genealogy_history_and_alliances_of_the_American_house_of_Delano_1621_to_1899. : accessed 21 February 2016.
2. Esther Littleford Woodworth-Barnes; Alicia Crane Williams, compiler and editor, respectively, Family of John Alden, Mayflower Families through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620, Vol 16, Part 1 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1998), pp 52, 148.
3. Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, index and digital images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 19 June 2016), Dr. Benoni Delano, memorial # 49649632.
4. Esther Littleford Woodworth-Barnes; Alicia Crane Williams, compiler and editor, respectively, Family of John Alden, Mayflower Families through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620, Vol 16, Part 1 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1998), p 148.
5. " U.S., New England Marriages prior to 1700," database index with page images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/3824/: accessed 8 March 2016), image 228 of page 213, "DELANO, Benoni (1667-1738) & Elizabeth [DREW] (1673-); b 1697; Duxbury"; citing Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.
6. Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, index and digital images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 19 June 2016), Dr. Benoni Delano, memorial # 49649632.
7. Maj Joel Andrew Delano, (compiler), The genealogy, history and alliances of the American house of Delano, 1621 to 1899: with the history and heraldry of the maison de Franchimont and de Lannoy to Delano, 1096 to 1621, and the royal ancestry of Lannoy from Guelph, prince of the Scyrri, to Phillippe de Lannoy, 476 A. D. to 1621, including other royal lines and a list of the Lannoy chevaliers de la toison d'or [golden fleece] (New York: [n.p.], 1899), pdf p 331[155]; digital images, Open Library, Open Library (https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23693816M/The_genealogy_history_and_alliances_of_the_American_house_of_Delano_1621_to_1899. : accessed 25 February 2015.
8. "Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850: Duxbury V1," database of images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (AmericanAncestors.org: accessed 30 March 2015), p 368, entry for Delano, Benony, http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/massachusetts-vital-records-to-1850/image/?volumeId=7699&pageName=368&rId=142062085; citing transcription of "Vital Records of Duxbury Massachusetts to the year 1850", NEHGS, Boston, 1911.
9. Esther Littleford Woodworth-Barnes; Alicia Crane Williams, compiler and editor, respectively, Family of John Alden, Mayflower Families through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620, Vol 16, Part 1 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1998), p 148.
10. Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, index and digital images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 19 June 2016), Dr. Benoni Delano, memorial # 49649632.
11. Esther Littleford Woodworth-Barnes; Alicia Crane Williams, compiler and editor, respectively, Family of John Alden, Mayflower Families through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620, Vol 16, Part 1 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1998), p 148.
12. Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, index and digital images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 21 February 2016), #49649632, Dr Benoni Delano, Myles Standish Burying Ground, Duxbury, MA.