George Darling960,961,962,1727,1728,1729
was born about 1620.961,962,1729 He
signed a will on 12 Apr 1693.961
He died in 1693 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts.960,962 The
inventory of his estate was taken on 13 Sep 1693.961 His estate was probated on 9 Oct 1693.961 George was captured at the Battle of Dunbar Scotland
by Oliver Cromwell's troops in September of 1650. After the battle George and
tens of thousands of other Scots were taken to Durham Castle and then sent to
London, England for trial. Many of the Scots did not survive the conditions at
Durham Castle nor the march to London. Even fewer survived the trip to the new
colonies. After being pronounced guilty at his ’trial’, George was
indentured to John Bex(Beax) and Company and sent as an indentured servant to
the Lynn Ironworks in Lynn Mass for an 8 year term of servitude. The Iron Works
is now largely referred to as the Saugus Iron Works and is presently located
in Saugus Massachusetts. Historically it was also referred to as the Iron Works
at Hammersmith.
On November 11, 1650 George Darling and some 150 other Scotsmen sailed across the Atlantic ocean aboard the ship "Unity" to the new Colonies. They arrived in Boston in December of 1650. 62 of these men went to work as woodcuters in the forests near the Iron Works. Others stayed in Boston, some went to Maine and others sent south. One wonders, given his age at the time of between 30 and 35 if George didn't leave an entire family back in Scotland? Did he have a wife and children in the Midlothians? We'll probably never know for sure, we do know the families of the captured Scots never knew exactly what happened to them. They were not informed if their sons and husbands had been captured, died at Durham Castle or on the march back to London. Never told their loved ones had been shipped an entire world away. George Darling and Katherine Gridley were married.960,961,962,1730