Ruth Delano (bef. 1753 - 1844)

Born before 5 Aug 1753 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Jonathan Delano — married 14 Sep 1774 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, British America

Descendants

Died 1 Mar 1844 after age 90 in Starks, Somerset, Maine, United States

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Biography

Ruth Delano^[1] was baptized 5 August 1753,^{[2][3][4][5] [6]} of Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, British America. Presumably, she was born shortly before. One source,^[7] though, dates her birth as 1757.

On 14 September, 1774, also in Duxbury, she married Jonathan Delano, the grandson of his namesake.^[8][9][10]

Their marriage provides an example (perhaps extreme) of the extensive intermarriage among the earliest New England families. Jonathan and Ruth were first cousins (both grandchildren of Jonathan Delano Sr and Hannah Doty) as well as third cousins once removed (via a different line, with John Alden and Priscilla Mullins as the common ancestor). One can suppose that old families were reluctant to marry into the families of less established newcomers. The beneficial effect of intermarriage to the descendants is that if you can find one Mayflower ancestor, you can probably find several.

At some point, the family moved to Maine (then a province of Massachusetts). Jonathan died there in 1833, after Maine had become a state. Ruth then resided with her grandson, John, in Stark, Somerset, Maine.^[11].

She died 1 March 1844. ^[12]

Footnotes

Hill, in one of the usually authoritative "Silver Books," gives a death date of 1 March 1841, citing "PEDS Files," possibly the same source cited for the 1844 date.^[13] This might be a simple copying error.

Additional Footnote

Maine Cemetery Records lists Ruth's date of death simply as 1844 (no birth date given), but her age is given as 88 yrs.^[14] If her birth year is 1753, that would make her death year 1841 as given by Edward Doty Hill. However, Ruth clearly died 1 Mar 1844 as shown on the "United States Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872," referenced in sources below.

Sources

1. ↑ The initial entry of this profile was done under the name Ruth Delanoa with an identifier of Delanoa-1.
2. ↑ Hill, Edward Doty, 34.
3. ↑ Woodworth-Barnes and Williams, Family of John Alden, p 558.
4. ↑ "Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850: Duxbury V1," database of images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (AmericanAncestors.org: accessed 5 April 2015), p 69, entry for Deleno, Ruth, http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/massachusetts-vital-records-to-1850/image/?volumeId=7699&pageName=69&rId=142053525; citing transcription of "Vital Records of Duxbury Massachusetts to the year 1850", NEHGS, Boston, 1911.
5. ↑ "Vital records of Duxbury, Massachusetts, to the year 1850" by Duxbury (Mass.); New England Historic Genealogical Society. Publication date 1911. Births, Pg. 69. Ruth DELENO (sic) ch. Amaziah bp. Aug. 5, 1753. C.R.1 (church record, First Church and Parish of Duxbury). https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofdu00duxb/page/68/mode/2up
6. ↑ Woodworth-Barnes and Williams, Family of John Alden, pp 156 and 393.
7. ↑ Delano, The genealogy, history and alliances of the American house of Delano, 1621 to 1899, pdf p 480 [230].
8. ↑ Hill, Edward Doty, 92.
9. ↑ Delano, The genealogy, history and alliances of the American house of Delano, 1621 to 1899, pdf p 480 [230].
10. ↑ "Vital records of Duxbury, Massachusetts, to the year 1850" by Duxbury (Mass.); New England Historic Genealogical Society Publication date 1911. Publisher Boston, Mass. : Published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, at the charge of the Eddy Town-Record Fund. Pg. 244. https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofdu00duxb/page/244/mode/2up
11. ↑ Hill, Edward Doty, 94
12. ↑ "United States Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99WB-79L1 : viewed 29 Jan 2021), 16-vol O Widow pensions > image 10 of 380; citing NARA microfilm publication T718 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1962).
13. ↑ Hill, Edward Doty, 94.
14. ↑ "Maine, Nathan Hale Cemetery Collection, ca. 1780-1980," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9FW-L5CZ?cc=2241461&wc=MFZM-P68%3A1019036901 : 24 October 2014), Deane, Abbie E-Dennett, Moses > image 1212 of 1612; Maine State Library, Augusta.

"Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850: Duxbury V1." Database of images. New England Historic Genealogical Society. American Ancestors. AmericanAncestors.org: 2015.

Delano, Maj Joel Andrew, (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. 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. : 2015.

Hill, Peter B, Compiler. Edward Doty: His Descendants through sons Thomas and Samuel, and daughters Desire and Elizabeth. Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Volume 11, Part II. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1996.

Woodworth-Barnes, Esther Littleford and 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, 1999.

Robert Mood Sherman; Ruth Wilder Sherman; Robert S. Wakefield, FASG, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations - Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass December 1620, Henry Samson, fifth generation descendants of his son James2 and daughters Dorcas, ______,Hannah, and Elizabeth, (Vol. 20 Part 2) ([Plymouth, Massachusetts]: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2005.

Additional Reading

Cushing, Muriel, compiler, Philip Delano of the “Fortune” 1621 and his descendants, Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2011

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Stanley Wood for starting this profile.

The sources were provided from a GEDCOM import by Jim Moore on May 21, 2015. Subsequent merging and editing was done by both.

The "additional reading" was provided by David Delano on Nov 26, 2020.

The "Additional Footnote" was entered by Faylene Bailey on Jul 5, 2021. Edited Jul 7, 2021.