NL #37, June 2001

This issue presents a lengthy discussion of the upcoming events at the 2001 Reunion and Annual Meeting in West Bath, Maine. Optional tours of the Maine Maritime Museum or a boat trip around Sequin Island, where sits the Sequin Island Light, will be offered. Jonathan Delano (DIFP #404) became the second keeper of the light in 1801. There is a story about what was probably the first naval battle of the revolutionary war, in which the sloop SUCCESS recaptured two Colonial sloops previously taken by the British Captain John Linzee in his 20-gun British sloop FALCON near Bedford (in those days the name for the settlements on both sides of Acushnet River). A fort to protect against future incursions was built at Nolscot Point (now Fort Point) in 1777. The history of that fort, later replaced by Fort Phoenix in 1784, is presented. Also included is the good news that the Dutch City of Leiden was 'revising its plans to demolish the ruin' of the Vrouwekerk, a very positive review by The American Genealogist of our genealogist's DIFP, and a story about Frederick A. Delano and the 1914 Federal Reserve Board. Next is a letter from Mr. T. N. Schelhaas, Gemeentearchief Leiden (Keeper of the Records of the City of Leiden) in which he discusses the portrait of Marie de Lannoy which hangs in the Jan Pesjinhof, the almshouses which, according to the GHAAHD, were established by Maria de Lannoy "before 1609". "Unfortunately, I have to tell you that the person represented on this painting is NOT Marie Mahieu, the mother of Philippe de Lannoy, but Marie de Lannoy, wife of Jan Pesijn, the founder of the Jan Pesijnhof." Rounding out this issue is a story about Lt. Jonathan Delano (DIFP #7) and King Phillip's War, 1675-1676. To view this newsletter in it is entirety, click here