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Darling Family

IN AMERICA

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Being an Account of the Founders and
First Colonial Families, an Official
Li^ of the Heads of Families
of the Name Darling, Resi-
dent in the United
States in 1790,
and a Bibh-
ography.

1913

NEW YORK

William M. Clemens, Publisher

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Copyright, 1913

By WILLIAM M. CLEMENS

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The Darling Family

IN AMERICA

As a family name Darling — or Dearling, as
the form sometimes was, — was bestowed upon
or assumed by, persons who were of engaging
personality, of fine physique, handsome or of
courtly manners. According to the old records
the family was in England as early as the year
1200 and some of its members were anciently
cup-bearers to the king. The American pioneers
were of this English stock but the connection
with English progenitors has not yet been
established.

Two branches of the family in England were
armor-bearing. One had a grant as follows:

Arms. — Per fesse crenelle azure and gules, in
chief a lion passant argent, and in base two fal-
chions in saltire, blades argent, hilt and pommels
or; on a canton ermine, a mural crown or, sus-
pended therefrom by a ribbon gules, edged azure,
the Corunna medal or.

Crest. — Out of a mural crown or, a dexter arm
embowed in armor proper, sustaining an ines-

(3)

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cutcheon gules, thereon two faulchions in saltire
as in the arms, encircled by the ribbon and medal
of Corunna.

Darling of London had the following:

Arms. — Azure guttee d'or, on a fesse of the last
three crosses crosslet fitchee gules.

Crest. — A female figure proper habited in a
loose robe azure, holding in the dexter hand a
cross crosslet fitchee gules, in the sinister a book
proper.

THE FIRST AMERICAN DARLINGS

In the early records — Massachusetts, New
Hampshire and Maine — the name Darling is
spelled in several different ways: Darland, Der-
land, Dearland, Dealing, Durland, Darlen, Durlen,
Darling and Darlyn. Wills are found, dating be-
fore 1718, in the probate courts of Suffolk and
Middlesex counties of Massachusetts.

Pioneers of the Darling name were John of
Salem, Mass., and Maine; George of Salem; Sam-
uel of New Haven, Conn. ; Richard of Huntington,
L. I.; Dennis of Braintree and Mendon, Mass.;
John of Braintree and Mendon. Some of these
were undoubtedly connected but the relationship
has not in every instance been certainly discov-
ered. There were several other Darlings early in
New England but their descendants have not been
numerous. Nearly all the Darlings in the United

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States have been derived from some one of the
pioneers above named.

DENNIS DARLING of Braintree. Mass.

[From the manuscript of Carlos Parsons Darling*]

I.

Dennis Darling, or Denice Darley or Darlin,
first appears in Braintree, Mass., where he was
married by Peter Brackett, justice of the peace,
November 3, 1662, to Hannah Francis. Nothing
definite is known concerning the parentage of
Hannah Francis, although it is held by some that
she was a daughter of John and Eosa Francis who
were in Braintree at that time. Braintree Vital
Records give the following children born there to
Dennis and Hannah Darling:

1. Cornelius Darling, born January 4, 1663,
died March 11, 1663.

2. John Darling, bom in July, 1664.

3. A son, born June 18, 1667, died June 19, 1667.

4. Sarah Darling, born November 26, 1669.

5. Cornelius Darling, bom January 25, 1675.

6. Hannah Darling, born April 14, 1677.

* Carlos Parsons Darling of Lawrenceville, Tioga county,
Penn., is at work upon a genealogy of the Darling and allied
families, to be published in book form. He has a mass of in-
formation on hand, furnished by different members of the family
residing in the United States and Europe, but there is still much
to be secured before the interesting story can be told in its
entirety, that the book may have the family record and history
of every Darling, and descendant of a Darling. He asks that
all members of the family shall send him their family history
and record. He also asks for newspaper clippings referring to
births, deaths and family gatherings which, if the sender wishes,
will be returned after using.

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Sometime during the years 1677-78, Dennis
Darling and his family moved to Mendon, Mass.,
where he died January 25, 1717, aged 77 years.
No trace has been found of the death of his wife
Hannah. The Mendon Vital Records give the fol-
lowing children bom in that town to Dennis and
Hannah Darling:

7. Ebenezer Darling, bom January 8, 1679.

8. Daniel Darling, born April 28, 1682.

9. Elizabeth DarUng, born July 2, 1685.

10. Benjamin Darling, born February 11, 1687.

II.

Captain John Darling, bom in July 1664, mar-
ried first, Elizabeth Thompson, second, Anne
Eockwood and, third, Elizabeth Morse. He had
one child by his first wife, one by his second wife,
and eleven by his third wife. He died May 29,
1753.

Nothing further is known of Sarah Darling,
born November 26, 1669.

Cornelius Darling, born January 25, 1675, mar-
ried Mary Frebray and had several children, born
in Mendon and Rehoboth, Mass.

Hannah Darling, born April 14, 1677, is still
unaccounted for.

Ebenezer Darling, born January 8, 1679, mar-
ried, March 3, 1698, Mary (Wheaton) Mann,
widow of Thomas Mann, but evidently left no
children.

Daniel Darling, bom April 23, 1782, married

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Lydia and had eight children. He died

February 26, 1745 in Mendon, Mass.

Elizabeth Darling, bom July 2, 1685, married
in Mendon, Mass., January 8, 1708-9, Obadiah
Wheelock.

Benjamin Darling, ** gentleman" of Mendon,
the youngest child of Dennis and Hannah
(Francis) Darling, was born in Mendon February
11, 1687. He accumulated considerable property
and was prominent in the locality. He lived on
a farm of his own, consisting of a large tract of
land situated in what is now the town of Black-
stone, Mass., on the North Koad, about three miles
east of Millville, Mass., and now known as the
Blackstone Poor Farm.

Benjamin Darling married, in Mendon, June 11,
1708, Mehitable White, born in Mendon, January
22, 1689, daughter of Thomas and Mehitable
(Thornton?) White of Mendon, granddaughter of
the first Thomas White who settled in Weymouth,
Mass., in 1637. Thomas White, the father of
Mehitable, was one of the early settlers and larg-
est landowners of Milford, Mass. Mehitable
(White) Darling must have died sometime after
1730, and probably was buried in the Chestnut
Hill cemetery where her husband was afterward
buried. She was the mother of eleven children.

Benjamin Darling married, second, in Mendon,
April 17, 1760, Susanna (Benson-Thayer) White,
widow of Aaron White, formerly widow of

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Thayer, and daughter of Benoni Benson by his
first wife. Benjamin Darling by this marriage
had one child, a daughter.

Benjamin Darling made his will November 28,
1770, mentioning his wife Susana, his sons, Ben-
jamin, Joseph, Ebenezer, Peter, and Thomas ; the
heirs of his son Samuel deceased ; and his daugh-
ters, Deborah Wheelock, Hannah Battles, Abigail
Inman, Elizabeth Meadberry, and Anna Darling.
His will was offered for probate May 22, 1772.
He died, May 18, 1772, in Mendon and was buried
in the old cemetery at Chestnut Hill, in Black-
stone. The tombstone which marks his grave has
been broken and re-set, and only shows date of
his death. There is a space for two graves, evi-
dently of his two wives, between his grave and
that of his son Thomas Darling. The date of the
death of his first wife, Mehitable, and the date of
both birth and death of his second wife, Susana,
have not been obtained.

Susana, second wife of Benjamin Darling, had
previously married, December 25, 1739, Aaron
White, born in Mendon, May 22, 1717, son of
Joseph and Prudence (Smith) White. Aaron
and Susana (Benson-Thayer) White had three
children, Aaron White, Jr., Sylvia White, who
married Seva Pond, and Prudence White, who
married in Mendon, December 25, 1760, Stephen
Darling, born in Mendon, August 21, 1738, son
of Joseph and Mary (Fish) Darling, and grand-

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son of Benjamin and Mehitable (White) Darling.
This Stephen and Prudence (White) Darling
moved to Richmond, N. H., and were parents of
several children, among whom were Chloe Dar-
ling, born May 10, 1769, who married, November
30, 1786, Luke Scott, and Lucy Darling, born
August 5, 1773, who married Charles Carpenter;
both these families were early settlers of Deer-
field township, Tioga county, Penn. This Ste-
phen Darling's first wife Prudence died in
Richmond, N. H., April 12, 1799, and he married
there, second, December 25, 1799, Elizabeth Scott.
Following is a record of the children of Ben-
jamin Darling and his two wives, as found in the
Mendon Vital Records:

1. Mehitable Darling, bom November 10, 1709.
She probably died unmarried as she is not men-
tioned in her father's will of 1770.

2. Deborah Darling, born April 22, 1711;
married, March 20, 1732, Daniel Wheelock of
Uxbridge, Mass.

3. Benjamin Darling, born March 15, 1714;
married in Smithfield, R. I., July 28, 1733, Eliza-
beth Force.

4. Joseph Darling, born April 14, 1716; mar-
ried in Smithfield, R. I., January 6, 1733, Mary
Fish. He was executor of his father's will.

5. Ebenezer Darling, born August 25, 1718;
married in Smithfield, R. I., February 25, 1745,
Mary Hakes.

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6. Peter Darling, bom June 12, 1720; married
first, April 20, 1749, in Mendon, Priscilla Cook;
married second, June 12, 1762, in Mendon, Anne
Cook.

7. Hannah Darling, born March 25, 1722, died
February 7, 1799; married Jeremiah Batteles.

8. Abigail Darling, born March 15, 1724; mar-
ried in Gloucester, Mass., January 16, 1745,
Elisha Inman.

9. Samuel Darling, bom August 1, 1726, died
before 1770; married in Mendon, April 1, 1746,
Sarah White.

10. Elizabeth Darling, born April 11, 1729;
married in Mendon, December 8, 1748, Benjamin
Meadberry of Smithfield, R. I.

11. Thomas Darling, born May 7, 1730; mar-
ried, December 4, 1749, Rachel White.

12. Anna Darling, child by second wife, born
June 22, 1761; married in Mendon, September
6, 1779, Benjamin Carvell. She is mentioned in
her father's will of 1770 and was a minor at that
time.

JOHN DARLING of Mass. and Maine

Investigation into the history of John — some-
times recorded as John Dollen of Salem, Mass.
and Monhegan island, Maine, has been persist-
ently made in recent years by many persons,
particularly Charlotte H. Abbott of Andover,
Mass., whose conclusions have been adopted in
the following sketch.

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John Darling was of the militia of Devonshire
under Lieutenant Thomas Gardner of Pemaquid ;
John Dolling was a sergeant of Monhegan, 1674-8,
under Thomas Gerrish, leader of the militia.
Later he paid a rent to the Duke of York govern-
ment, recorded at Salem, for privileges; but so
early as 1672, probably, he was at a fishing
station either on Monhegan or at Pemaquid. He
was usually called a mariner and married Mary
(Bishop) Barney, daughter of Richard and Dul-
cibella Bishop of Salem, after the death of her
first husband, John Barney. In 1679 he was
assisting Thomas Bishop (2), his brother-in-law,
in the settlement of the Bishop estate. In 1681
Mary Bishop (Barney) Darling, often called
Sister Dollen, had children baptized in Salem
church, so they appear to have become of per-
manent residence there about that date, while
John still held his rights on Monhegan. He
seems to have purchased land in the neighbor-
hood of Bristol, Maine, in 1677 — perhaps near
Round pond, on Muscongus river. When the
family came to Salem he lived awhile in the
town and then took a farm in the Danvers part
of Danvenport's plantation.

John Darling appears frequently in the records
of his time. In 1672 we find a petition of John
Dollen of Monhegan. He was a justice of the
peace in Pemaquid. ''York Deeds" contain an
allusion to lots held by John Dollen and John

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Palmer at Demaris Cove in a sale, 1686. In Salem
is recorded his renewed lease of land on Monhegan
the same year, used for planting "where he now
dwelleth with a house, warehouse and barn, or-
chard, etc., for a yearly rent of a bushel of wheat."
The Maine Historical Recorder gives a paper
dated August 7, 1717, of Hannah Mander of Bos-
ton, widow of James, formerly of Boston, to her
nephew Richard Welch, of a tract on Monhegan
which formerly belonged to a first husband,
Renold Kelly, "adjoining the land of her hon-
ored father, Mr. John Dollin."

In the "Book of Eastern Claims" held in the
archives room of the Boston state house is a
record of the rights of John Dollen, sometime
of Monhegan now resident in Salem on land once
held by Thomas Webber, late of Kennebec, now
resident of Charlestown on the Kennebec near
Arrowstick island; secured to Dollen 's heirs and
refers to a date of 1677. Another paper, 1715,
refers to the Eound Point parcel^ sold by John
Eldridge to John Dollen of Monhegan, fisher-
man, August, 1699.

John Dollen, alias Darling, died before 1713,
when his son Thomas (2) brought in an inven-
tory which however gave no clue to his estate.
Before his death his wife, Mary Bishop, had
died upon the Danvers farm, and he married
second, in 1709, Bethia Meacham, widow of
Oeorge Hacker, of Danvers, and she was still

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living in 1717. Thomas Darling (2) sold the
farm in 1734 and left for Framingham, Mass.
He married Sarah Buxton and his history is
well recorded in Middlesex county, Mass.

John Darling (2) was probably, by the best ac-
counts, the son baptized by Sister Dolling in
Salem, a babe in 1681. He married Lois Gow-
ing of Lynnfield in 1722, lived in Westford, a
carpenter in 1740 and in 1741 removed to Lunen-
burg, Mass., where he died about 1769, aged 88.
Concerning his whereabouts between 1699 and
1709 there is only speculation. Perhaps he was
with his father on the island as a trader and
fisherman and it has been suggested that he
may have taken over the fisherman's share of
old Dolling 's venture, leaving Thomas the farm
in Danvers.

The fate of Mary Darling (2), who sold
Bishop lots with the consent of her parents given
her by the grandparents is not known. Hannah
Darling (2) married Renold Kelly and lived on
Monhegan. Abigail Darling (2) died single in
1725, administration given to her brother
Thomas. Martha Darling (2) probably married
James Ross, and returned to Falmouth. Per-
haps she also had a husband who was father
of Richard Welch, called nephew by Hannah.

The children of John Darling (2) belong to
Lunenburg records. The line of John Darling
(3) is found in New Hampshire. Benjamin Dar-

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ling (3) born in Lynnfield, 1728, became a mariner,
then a carpenter, came home to live with his
father and married Mary Holt of Andover, 1766,
and inherited the Lunenburg homestead. Timo-
thy Darling (3) was of Princeton and Winchen-

don, marrying Blood of Groton. Joseph

Darling we find a trace of in a witness to a deed,
then he is lost. The children of Thomas Darling
(2) of Framingham include Jonathan of And-
over, who married Sarah Wardwell, and fell in
the French war, 1746, at Louisburg. Jonathan
Darling (4), born in Salem, 1742, married Han-
nah Holt of Andover, 1763, and helped settle
Blue Hill, Maine, with his wife's relatives.

OTHER COLONIAL FAMILIES

Daniel and Susanna (Webster) Darling were
married December 27, 1733. Daniel Darling died
November 13, 1760. Their children were: John,
born in 1744; Benjamin, born in 1738; Daniel,
born in 1741, died in 1767; Euth, born in 1744,
died in 1760; Abraham, bom in 1746; Mollie,
born in 1748.

Susanna (4) Webster, who became the wife of
Daniel Darling, was descended from Thomas (1)
and Margery Webster of Ormsby, England;
Thomas (2) and Sarah (Brewer) Webster
of Ormsby, Watertown, Mass., and Hampton,
N. H. ; Ebenezer (3) and Hannah (Judkins)
Webster of Hampton and Kingston, N. H. After
the death of her husband her homestead was set

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off from Kingston, N. H., into the new town of
Hawke.

Benjamin Darling, son of Daniel and Susanna
(Webster) Darling, settled first in Hawke, N. H.,
and subsequently in Sanborton, N. H. He car-
ried on the first mill in Sanborton and was an
original member of the Congregational church
there in 1771-2. He died April 16, 1795(?). By
his wife Hannah, whom he married in 1755, he
had: Susanna, born January 5, 1759; Eeuben,
born March 8, 1762; Ebenezer, born January 11,
1765; Daniel, born March 29, 1768; Betsey, bom
April 27, 1771; Ruth, born July 2, 1774. He
fought at Crown Point in 1756.

John Darling of Salisbury, Mass., was a son

of and Naomi (Flanders) Darling, his

mother, born December 15, 1656, being a daughter
of Stephen and Jane Flanders and the name of
his father not of record, but perhaps John Dar-
ling a grandson of George Darling of Salem.
He married Mary Page, bom November 18, 1674,
daughter of Onesiphomo and Mary (Hauxworth)
Page of Salisbury. Afterwards he was in East
Kingston, N. H., when that town was set off
from the older town of Kingston. His children
were: Onesiphorus, John, Daniel and probably
Abigail, the names of two of the sons preserv-
ing the surnames of the Darling family and the
names of the eldest son and the daughter pre-

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serving the names of the family of the mother
(Mary Page).

Samuel Darling was born in 1695, probably in
Jamaica, L. I. His father Darling mar-
ried Burrows in Jamaica, probably about

1690-5. Samuel married about 1718, probably
in Newport, R. I., or vicinity the "widow Ma-
comber, ' ' whose first husband was Abiel Macomber
and whose maiden name was Susanna Childs, born
in 1680. Their only child, Thomas Darling, was
born in Newport, E. L, February 21, 1719,
and married July 23, 1745, Abigail Noyes, bom
March 20, 1724, daughter of the Reverend Joseph
and Abigail (Pierpont) Noyes. In 1722 Samuel
Darling with his wife, child, and sister Dorothy
GriflSn, a childless widow, removed to New
Haven, Conn., where he practised law until his
death, April 29, 1760. His remains with those
of his wife, his son Thomas and his daughter-in-
law Abigail are in the Grove street cemetery,
New Haven. Thomas Darling died November
30, 1798, and his wife Abigail died in 1797. In
Jamaica there was a Samuel Darling who deeded
land in 1697-8 and a Thomas Darling was living
there in 1690. There was also a Thomas Darling
in Elizabethtown, N. J., about 1700.

Thomas and Joanna Darling were of Salem,
Mass., in 1690 and after 1735 of Framingham,
Mass. Either sons or brothers of this Thomas

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Darling were John, Amos and Jonathan of
Framingham.

John Darling and his wife Abigail lived in
Framingham, Mass. Their children were: Abi-
gail, born June 2, 1736; John, bom March 24,
1737-8; Amasa, bom March 13, 1743; Timothy,
born August 12, 1747.

Amos and Hepzibah (Bruce) Darling of South-
boro, Framingham and Marlboro, Mass., had
these children: Joseph, bom October 29, 1746;
Elizabeth, bom March 2, 1748; Jonas, bom June
4, 1753; Lucy, born August 13, 1755; Amos, bom
June 16, 1757; Hepsibah, born December 8, 1759;
Lydia, born July 10, 1762; Daniel, bom July
24, 1765.

John Darling, of Fairfield, Conn., married
Elizabeth Beers, daughter of James Beers. His
estate was administered in 1719 with divisions to
sons, John, James, Joseph and Benjamin and
daughters Hannah and Martha. The daughter
Hannah married Kichard Whitney of Fairfield
and the daughter Martha married John Bradley
of Fairfield. From a Salem, Mass., deed — Vol-
ume 67, deed 134, Essex court — it appears that
this John Darling was a son of Theodore and
Katherine (Gridley) Darling of Salem, Kath-
erine Gridley being, perhaps, a daughter of
Nathaniel Gridley. George Darling who appears
to have married Katherine Gridley before 1674,

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died before October 9, 1693, the date of the
probate of his will.

George Darling, of Lynn, Mass., had a son,
George, born in March, 1667. He lived in that
part of Lynn which afterward became Swamp-
scott. In his will, dated April 12, 1693, he men-
tions wife Catherine, sons James, Daniel,
Thomas, Benjamin and John and daughters
Sarah, Hannah and Margaret. (Salem Probate
Records, volume 203, page 148.) Other records
show that one of the daughters married Jonathan
Whipple of Providence and that a daughter
Martha, not mentioned in her father's will, mar-
ried November 13, 1706, James Ross.

John Darling was in Braintree, Mass., before
1677. He married Elizabeth Downham, thought
to have been a daughter of John and Dorothy
Downham of Braintree. Issue: Mary, bom in
1664; John, born in 1666; Samuel, born in 1669;
Margaret, born in 1672; Margaret again, bom
in 1677. He is thought to have been a brother
of Dennis Darling.

George Darling, a mariner, originally of Salem,
Mass., subsequently settled in Charlestown. He
married, September 15, 1709, Abigail Reed,
daughter of S. Reed, and died December 10,
1723, in the thirty-seventh year of his age. His
widow Abigail died November 27, 1739, in the
fifty-seventh year of her age. Issue: George,

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bom June 9, (bapt. 11), 1710; Abigail, bom
April 27, 1712, died October 16, 1728; Samuel,
born September 10, 1715; James, baptized March
24, 1718, died November 5, 1735 ; Elizabeth, bap-
tized December 27, 1719, married James Fosdick;
George, baptized February 9, 1723-4, died July
2, 1730.

One investigator has suggested the following
lines from George Darling (1) of Salem, Mass.:

James (2) of Salem, married Hannah Lewis;
George (3) of Charlestown; William (3) of
Charlestown, whose sons were, William (4)
and Timothy (4) later of Hopkinton, Mass., and
Kingston, Mass.

Thomas (2) of Salem and Middleborro, Mass.,

married Joanna ; John (3) of Middleboro,

and Thomas (3).

Benjamin (2), of Salem.

Henry (2), of Salem, married Joanna Mitchell;
Henry (3), John (3), Benjamin (3), Joseph (3).

John (2), of Salem; Thomas (3), of Framing-
ham, whose sons were, Ebenezer (4), Amos
(4) and Jonathan (4), of Andover, Mass.

Daniel (2), of Salem; Daniel (3).

Captain Samuel Darling, probably a grand-
son of Dennis Darling was born about 1700 and
died in Milford, Mass., July 27, 1782. His re-
mains with those of his wife, Thomasine, were
interred in the old burying ground in that town.

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Jonathan Darling of Plymouth, Mass., mar-
ried, March 21, 1748, Martha Bramhall, daughter
of Joshua and Sarah (Rider) Bramhall. Their
children, all born in Plymouth, were: Lydia,
bom April 30, 1750; Benjamin, born November
1, (old style November 12), 1752; Sarah, born
October 4, 1754; Mary, born August 28, 1756;
John, born December 23, 1758.

John Darling was in Winchenden, Mass., as
early as 1754. After the French and Indian war
several Indians declared that with intent to kill,
they once watched him as he was mowing in
his meadow. He was a portly, athletic man,
with large prominent eyes, the whites of which
were so big and glaring that they frightened
the Indians away. By his wife Euth he had:
Joseph, born July 26, 1762, and Priscilla and
Calvin, twins, born June 13, 1765.

Timothy and Joanna Darling, of Winchenden,
Mass., had these children: Daniel, bom July
9, 1761; Oliver, born October 13, 1763; Anna,
born September 19, 1765.

Andrew Darling, merchant, married in Fair-
field, Ga., near Sunbury, September 13, 1764,
Jeanie Baillie, daughter of Kenneth Baillie.

Betsey Darling, daughter of Andrew Darling,
deceased, married in Liberty county, Ga., Sep-
tember 27, 1787, Charles Irvine, son of Dr. John
Irvine.

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Jolin Darling, born in England in 1750, came
to America about 1774 or 1775, landing in Salem,
Mass. Subsequently he settled in Lebanon,
N. H., where he died in 1827. By his first wife,
Sarah, who died in 1787, he had four sons and
two daughters: John, 1779; Daniel, Roswell,
Ebenezer, Lucy and Mary. He married, second,
Elizabeth Slingerland of Albany county, N. Y.,
bom in 1758, daughter of Garret T. and Egie
(Vanderzee) Slingerland, and descended from
Tennis Cornelise Slingerland who came from
Holland in 1617. By this second marriage there
was one son, William.

John Darling, from Winchenden, Mass., set-
tled in Chelmsford, Mass., in 1778. A brother,
Jewett, was in Chelmsford in 1781 but did not
long remain there. Another brother, Calvin,
married and removed to Canada but returned to
Massachusetts after many years. John Darling
was in the expedition which General Benedict
Arnold lead through the wilderness to attack
the city of Quebec in 1775. He married, in Gro-
ton, Mass., Sarah Blood who died June 6, 1804,
aged 49. He married, second, the widow Lydia
Baker of Winchenden, who died September 9,
1815, aged 52. He married, third, in 1815, the
widow Mary Taylor, daughter of the Reverend
Abraham Wood. His children were: by first
wife, John, bom December 17, 1778 ; Montgomery,
born April 8, 1785; Nahum, bom August 22,

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1786; Darius, born June 26, 1787; Boynton, born
January 23, 1790; Sarah, bom September 23,
1791; Mary Ann, bom April 31, 1794; Louis,
born January 2, 1796 ; by third wife, Heliann and
Joseph, born in August, 1819.

Tombstone Inscriptions

(From the Old Cemetery, Middleboro, Mass.)

Mary Darling, daughter of John and Eliza-
beth, March 9, 1776, 44th yr.

Nathan Darling, April 19, 1812, 79th yr.

Martha Darling, widow of Nathan, May 12,
1812, 79th yr.

Mary Darling, daughter of Nathan and Mar-
tha, February 7, 1792, 21 yrs., 5 mos., 17 days.

John Darling, son of Nathan and Martha, No-
vember 14, 1776, 3rd month.

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DARLINGS IN THE CENSUS OF 1790

The first census of the United States was
taken in 1790. It comprised an enumeration
of the heads of families, with the number of
members of each family, in the present states of
Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky,
Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hamp-
shire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina,
Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Rhode Island,
Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia. The returns
for the states of Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky,
New Jersey, Tennessee and Virginia were de-
stroyed when the British burned the capitol in
Washington, during the war of 1812. The origi-
nal schedules of the other states are now pre-
served in the census office in Washington. The
loss of the Virginia records has been in a
measure made up by the state enumerations of
the years 1782, 1783, 1784 and 1785 and by cer-
tain county tax lists.

At the time this census was taken the total
white population of the United States was 3,172,-
444 and the heads of families enumerated were
410,636. The heads of the enumerated fami-
lies were practically the founders of the republic.

24 DAKLING FAMILY

There were then 152 Darling heads of fami-
lies, with 674 individual members. From these
all the Darlings in the United States of today
whose family history goes back to the American
colonial period are descended. By states these
heads of families were located as follows : Maine,
5; New Hampshire, 19; Vermont, 13; Massa-
chusetts, 68; Ehode Island, 9; Connecticut, 8;
New York, 23; Pennsylvania, 2; Maryland, 2;
Virginia, 2; South Carolina, 1.

In the list that follows, arranged by states, the
Christian name of each head of family is first
given and then the name of the place of resi-
dence, the county of the state and the number
of males and females in the family, respectively
designated m. and fm. :

MAINE

EliaMm, Eastern River, Township No. 2, Han-
cock, 2 m.

James, Fairfield, Lincoln, 1 m.

Jno., Gorham or Scarborough, Cumberland, 4 m.,
2 fm.

Jonathan, Bluehill, Hancock, 4 m., 4 fm.

Joseph, Fairfield, Lincoln, 4 m., 3 fm.

NEW HAMPSHIKE

Aaron, Swanzey, Cheshire, 2 m., 2 fm.
Abraham, Sanbornton, Strafford, 3 m., 3 fm.
Amos, Jaffrey, Cheshire, 1 m., 2 fm.
Benja. B., Hopkinton, Hillsborough, 3 m., 2 fm.
Daniel, Sanbornton, Strafford, 3 m., 1 fm.

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David, Surrey, Cheshire, 2m., 3 fm.
Davis, Hinsdale, Cheshire, 3 m., 2 fm.
Ebenezer, Sanbornton, Strafford, 4m., 3 fm.
Elizabeth, Hawke, Rockingham, 1 fm.
Hurculas, Croydon, Cheshire, 1 m., 1 fm.
John, Chesterfield, Cheshire, 6 m., 1 fm.
John, Hopkinton, Hillsborough, 2 m., 1 fm.
John, Hampstead, Rockingham, 3 m., 5 fm.
Moses, Hopkinton, Hillsborough, 5 m., 4 fm,
Onesimus, Hopkinton, Hillsborough, 1 m., 1 fm.
Peter, Hopkinton, Hillsborough, 6 m., 2 fm.
Stephen, Winchester, Cheshire, Im., 2 fm.
Timothy, Hopkinton, Hillsborough, 9 m., 4 fm.
William, Charlestown, Cheshire, 4 m., 3 fm.

VERMONT

John, Groton, Orange, 6m., 5 fm.
John, Woodstock, Windsor, 3 m., 3 fm.
John, Woodstock, Windsor, 4 m., 3 fm.
Caleb, Townsend, Windham, 4 m., 1 fm.
Joseph, Woodstock, Windsor, 4 m., 5 fm.
Oliver, Westminster, Windham, 2 m., 3 fm.
Peter, Halifax, Windham, 2 m., 5 fm.
Robert, Groton, Orange, 3 m., 4 fm.
Samuel, Brandon, Rutland, 3 m., 3 fm.
Setli, Hartland, Windsor, 2 m., 2 fm.
Timo., Rockingham, Windham, 2 m., 4 fm.
Widow, Putney, Windham, 1 m., 4 fm.
William, Bradford, Orange, 5 m., 2 fm.

MASSACHUSETTS

, Boston, Suffolk, 2 m., 2 fm.

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Abner, Bernardston, Hampshire, 4 m., 1 fm.
Benjamin, Bellingham, Suffolk, 2 m., 2 fm.

Benjamin, Pembroke, Plymouth, 1 m., 4 fm.
Benjamin, Middleborough, Plymouth, 3 m., 6 fm.
Benjamin, Boston, Suffolk, 3 m., 3 fm.
Benjamin, Lunenburgh, Worcester, 4 m., 1 fm.
Corne, Bellingham, Suffolk, 1 m. 2 fm.
David, Adams, Berkshire, 2 m., 5 fm.
David J., Adams, Berkshire, 3 m., 1 fm.
Eli, Franklin, Suffolk, 1 m., 4 fm.
Elijah, Palmer, Hampshire, 5 m., 6 fm.
Ellenor, Marblehead, Essex, 1 fm.
Ellis, Wrentham, Suffolk, 2 m., 2 fm.
Enoch, Bellingham, Suffolk, 1 m., 2 fm.
Ichabod, Hancock, Berkshire, 2 m., 1 fm.
Jedediah, Greenfield, Hampshire, 4 m., 4 fm.
Jesse, Mendon, Worcester, 2 m., 2 fm.
Jewett, Winchendon, Worcester, 1 m., 2 fm.
Job, Mendon, Worcester, 2 m., 2 fm.
Job, Jr., Mendon, Worcester, 4 m., 5 fm.
John, Greenfield, Hampshire, 1 m., 1 fm.
John, Sherburn, Nantucket, 5 m., 5 fm.
John, Bellingham, Suffolk, 4 m., 3 fm.
John, Lunenburgh, Worcester, 3 m., 2 fm.
John, Mendon, Worcester, 3 m., 3 fm.
John, Winchendon, Worcester, 1 m., 1 fm.
John, Jr., Mendon, Worcester, 1 m., 1 fm.
John, Jr., Mendon, Worcester, 1 m., 1 fm.
Jonas, Framingham, Middlesex, 6 m., 3 fm.
Joseph, Marblehead, Essex, 1 m., 1 fm.

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Joseph, Palmer, Hampshire, 2 m., 3 fm.
Joseph, South Brimfield, Hampshire, 2 m., 4 fm.
Joseph, Duxborough, Plymouth, 1 m., 5 fm.
Joshua, Bellingham, Suffolk, 2 m., 3 fm.
Joshua, Uxbridge, Worcester, 2 m., 3 fm.
Margaret, Duxborough, Plymouth, 1 m., 5 fm.
Mary, Plymouth, Plymouth, 1 m., 3 fm.
Mary, Lunenburgh, Worcester, 2 m., 2 fm.
Matthew, Mendon, Worcester, 3 m., 4 fm.
Nathan, Middleborough, Plymouth, 3 m., 3 fm.
Pelatiah, Mendon, Worcester, 4 m., 5 fm.
Peter, Medway, Suffolk, 3 m., 2 fm.
Peter, Mendon, Worcester, 2 m., 2 fm.
Eichard, Bellingham, Suffolk, 2 m., 2 fm.
Samuel, West Stockbridge, 2 m., 2 fm.
Samuel, Duxborough, Pljnnouth, 2 m., 4 fm.
Samuel, Bellingham, Suffolk, 4 m., 3 fm.
Samuel, Bellingham, Suffolk, 1 m., 4 fm.
Samuel, Mendon, Worcester, 3 m., 2 fm.
Simeon, Mendon, Worcester, 4 m., 3 fm.
Thomas, Middleborough, PljTnouth, 1 m., 1 fm.
Timothy, Bellingham, Suffolk, 4 m.
Timothy, Lunenburgh, Worcester, 1 m., 1 fm.
William, Cambridge, Middlesex, 1 m., 1 fm.
William, Mendon, Worcester, 5 m., 5 fm.
Zeleg, Sutton, Worcester, 3 m., 2 fm.

RHODE ISLAND

Ebenezar, Glocester, Providence, 2 m., 2 fm.
Ebinizar, Cumberland, Providence, 3 m., 3 fm.
Ebinezar, Cumberland, Providence, 3 m., 3 fm.

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John, Cumberland, Providence, 4 m., 2 fm.
John, Cumberland, Providence, 2 m., 5 fm.
John, Jr., Cumberland, Providence, 6 m., 3 fm.
Peter, Cumberland, Providence, 8 m., 3 fm.
Peter, Jr., Cumberland, Providence, 2 m., 5 fm.
Sarah, Glocester, Providence, 2 m., 7 fm.

CONNECTICUT

Abel, Litchfield, Litchfield, 5 m., 5 fm.
Abigail, Woodbridge, New Haven, 3 fm.
Benjamin, Reading, Fairfield, 3 m., 3 fm.
Joseph, New Haven, New Haven, 2 m., 3 fm.
Samuel, Weston, Fairfield, 3 m., 2 fm.
Samuel, New Haven, New Haven, 4 m., 3 fm.
Samuel, Wallingford, New Haven, 4 m., 3 fm.
Thomas, Woodbridge, New Haven, 4 m., 1 fm.

NEW YORK

Abner, Hoosick, Albany, 5 m., 6 fm.
Adam, Smithtown, Suffolk, 4 m., 6 fm.
Benjamin, Beekman, Dutchess, 3 m., 2 fm.
David, Claverack, Columbia, 1 m., 1 fm.
Ebenezer, Pittstown, Albany, 2 m., 2 fm.
Gersham, Queensbury, Washington, 2 m., 2 fm.
Gershom, Queensbury, Washington, 3 m., 2 fm.
Hamilton, Smithtown, Suffolk, 6 m., 4 fm.
Jacob, Hebron, Washington, 4 m., 4 fm.
Jesop, Claverack, Columbia, 1 m., 1 fm.
John, Duanesburgh, Albany, 2 m., 1 fm.
John, Canaan, Columbia, 7 m., 1 fm.
John, Beekman, Dutchess, 5 m., 3 fm.
John, Queensbury, Washington, 1 m., 1 fm.

DAELING FAMILY 29

Jonathan, Amenia, Dutchess, 6 m., 5 fm.
Joseph, Pawling, Dutchess, 1 m., 2 fm.
Levi, Stephentown, Albany, 3 m., 2 fm.
Moses, Canajoharie, Montgomery, 1 m., 2 fm.
Peter, Pawling, Dutchess, 3 m., 3 fm.
Solomon, Northeast, Dutchess, 2 m., 3 fm.
Stephen, Hebron, Washington, 2 m., 1 fm.
Stephen, Westfield, Washington, 2 m., 1 fm.
Zephaniah, Canaan, Columbia, 4 m., 1 fm.

PENNSYLVANIA

Nathan, West Nantmill township, Chester, 8 m.,

4 fm.
Ann, Germantown, Philadelphia, 2 fm.

MARYLAND

Morris, Baltimore, Baltimore, 2 m., 2 fm.
Thomas, , Baltimore, 2 m., 2 fm.

VIRGINIA

William, Hampshire county, 6 m. and fm.
William, Jr., Hampshire county, 6 m. and fm.

SOUTH CAROLINA

Thomas, Charleston district, St. Bartholomes
parish, 2 m., 3 fm.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

TOWN HISTORIES

Marlborough, Mass. By Charles Hudson.
Framingham, Mass. By William Barry.
Winchendon, Mass. By A. P. Marvin.
Framingham, Mass. By J. H. Temple.
Milford, Mass. By Adin Ballon.

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Sutton, Mass. By William A. Benedict and
Hiram A. Tracy.

Henniker, N. H. By Leander W. Cogswell.
Weare, N. H. By William Little.
Warsaw, N. Y. By Andrew W. Young.
Chesterfield, N. H. By Oran E. Randall.
Eindge, N. H. By Ezra S. Stearns.
Sanborton, N. H. By M. T. Runnels.
Palmer, Mass. By J. H. Temple.
Medway, Mass. By E. 0. Jameson.
Kennebunkport, Me. By Charles Bradbury.
Franklin, Mass. By Mortimer Blake.

MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS

Families of Wyoming Valley, Penn. By George
B. Kulp.

Genealogical Directory of the First Settlers of
New England. By James Savage.

Clarke's Kindred Genealogies. By Augustus
Peck Clarke.

The Leland Magazine. By Sherman Leland.

Memorial to My Honored Kindred. By Charles
W. Darling.

The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown,
Mass. By Thomas Wyman.

The General Armory. By Bernard Burke.

Old Families of Amesbury and Salisbury, Mass.
By David W. Hoyt.

Ancient Pemaquid. By J. W. Thornton.

Soldiers in King Philip's War. By George M.
Bodge.

DARLING FAMILY 31

PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS

The Essex Institute Historical Collections,
Salem, Mass.

The Mayflower Descendant, Boston.

The New England Historical and Genealogical
Eegister, Boston.

The Genealogical Quarterly Magazine, Boston.

The Bangor Historical Magazine, Bangor, Me.

The Maine Historical and Genealogical Re-
corder, Portland, Me.

Genealogy, New York.

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