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362 ble to membership in the Society of Colonial Dames.

Mrs. Delano's husband, Moses Abbott Delano, is a mining engineer and a thirty-second degree Mason. He was born in Fairhaven, Mass., October 30, 1848. His father, Moses H. Delano, who is still living in Fairhaven, was born in that town, July 21, 1820. He married Amantla F. Eldridge, October 12, 1845. The parents of Moses H. were Joshua Delano, Jr., who was born in 1783 and died in 1855, and Eunice Reed Ellis, whom he married November 24, 1807. Joshua, Jr., was son of Captain Joshua Delano, Sr., a soldier in the [{evolution, who was born in 1746, and died May 20, 1819, and whose wife was Patience Snow. Captain Joshua's father was Jethro Delano, born July 31, 1701, who married Elizabeth Pope, of Sandwich. Jethro was son of Lieutenant Jonathan (born in Duxbury in 1647, died in Dartmouth in 1720) and his wife, Mercy Warren, grand-daughter of Richard Warren, of the "Mayflower."

Lieutenant Jonathan Delano was son of Philip De La Noye by his first wife, Hester Dewsbury, of Duxbury, whom he married in December, 1634 (Plymouth Colony Records, vol. i,). Philip De La Noye (son of Jean de Lannoy), born at Leyden, Holland, in 1602, ba])tized December 6, 1603, came to Plymouth in the .ship "Fortune" in 1621, and died in Bridgewater, Mass., in 1681. His second wife, whom he married in 1657, was Mary, widow of James Glass and daughter of William Pontus.

According to "The Royal Chart of Lannoy," in the Delano Genealogy, the line of ancestry goes back to "600 B.C.," given as "the earliest known date, authentic or otherwise."

Mr. and Mrs. Delano have one child, a son, Preston lirady Delano, who was born in Phœnix, Mich., April 2, 1886, Mr. Delano being then superintendent of the Pha>nix and St. Clair mines at that place. This son fitted for Harvard at Mr. Mosher's Hoine Preparatory School, and successfully passed the examination. He is greatly interested in athletic sports, winning the silver cup in the tennis tournament in Fairhaven, Old Home Week, 1903, and the cup at the Country Club, New Bedford, September, 1903.

LIZABETH ELLEN HAYWARD, Past President of the J. G. Foster Corps, W. R. C. No. 174, of South Framingham, Mass., is a native of Keene, N.H. She was born September 8, 1841, daughter of Ho.sea and Hannah D. (Britton) Chase. Her father, Hosea Chase, was a descendant in the sixth generation of Aquila Chase, "a mariner from Cornwall, England," who settled in Hampton, N.H., in 1640, and in 1646 removed to Newbury, Mass. The line is: Aquila,' Moses,' Daniel,-' Caleb,^ Stephen,^ Hosea." Atjuila Chase married Anna Wheeler, daughter of John Wheeler, of Hampton. His son, Moses Chase, married in 1684 Ann Follansbee, and lived in Newbiu'v. Daniel Chase, son of Moses and Ann, married Sarah March, and eventually settled in Sutton, Mass. Their son Caleb married Sarah Prince. Stephen Chase, son of Caleb and father of Hosea, was born in Sutton, Mass., April 26, 1763. He died in Keene, N. H., April 6, 1830. Betsey Chase, his wife, was born August 25, 1767, and died August 12, 1850.

It is of interest to note in this connection that Caleb Chase, grandfather of Hosca, was brother to Sanuiel Chase, the great-grandfather of Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase. Hosea Chase and Hannah Drusilla Britton were married in Keene at the residence of her brother-in-law, Captain William Bradford, November 4, 1833, by the Rev. Mr. Sullivan, pastor of the Unitarian .church. They at once began their home-making in the new house built by Mr. Chase on his farm in Keene, adjoining that of his brother Charles, the house standing on high land overlooking the meadows through which flows the beautiful Ashuelot River.

Hosea Chase was born in Keene, N.H., April 23, 1805, and died November 17, 1874. His wife, Hannah D., was born in Westmoreland, N.H., August 21, 1811, and died in South Framingham, Mass., February 28, 1896. Their children were: Martha S., who married Edmund J. Perham, and died in 1860; Frances A., who died in 1867; Hosea B., who died in infancy; Elizabeth E. (Mrs. Hayward); William H., who died at .seventeen; and Daniel W., who died in 1867 in his twenty-second