In the Americas, the Delano family, whose forebear chartered the Mayflower, includes notables such as U.S. presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Calvin Coolidge, U.S. president and Union Army general Ulysses S. Grant, author Laura Ingalls Wilder, and astronaut Alan B. Shepard. Its progenitor was Philippe de Lannoy (1602–1681) The Pilgrim of Flemish descent arrived at Plymouth, Massachusetts in the early 1620s. His descendants also include Frederic Adrian Delano, Robert Redfield, and Paul Delano. Delano family forebears include the Pilgrim who chartered the Mayflower, seven of its passengers and three signers of the Mayflower Compact.
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