The next son was Henry, who, as has been before stated, married a daughter of Capt. John Darling of Bellingham. They were married in Smithfield, R. I., a town just south of Cumberland, in 1732. They afterward lived in Mendon, the town from which Bellingham had been set off. There is abundant proof of these facts as will be shown later in the history of Henry.
[Clarke, Mrs. Mary Bosworth. Bosworth Genealogy vol. 3. San Francisco: n.p., 1928]
Henry5 Bosworth, son of Ichabod4 (Jonathan, Jr.3, Jonathan2 Edward1) and 1st wife Sarah (Stacy), born probably in Rehoboth about 1710, or very early in 1711;(*) place and date of death unknown; married at Smithfield, R. I., Apr. 25, 1732, Deborah Darling, youngest daughter of Capt. John2 (Dennis1) and 3rd wife Elizabeth (Morse) Darling, born in Mendon, Mass. (later set off as Bellingham) Jan. 8, 1713/14; died before Mar. 17, 1750, on which date she is mentioned in her father's will, as "daughter Deborah Bosworth deceased."
Note: Capt. John Darling was son of Dennis, born in Braintree, Sept. 2, 1664 and died at Bellingham May 29, 1753 in his 90th year. He was a great business man and landed proprietor. He headed the petition for setting off the town of Bellingham which was incorporated in 1719. He had land in Mendon as early as 1691. He had three wives (1) Elizabeth Thompson (2) Anne Rockwood and (3) Elizabeth Morse. By the latter he had eleven children, the youngest of whom was Deborah, wife of Henry Bosworth.
Henry Bosworth, like his father Ichabod and his grandfather Jonathan Bosworth, Jr., was an "Anabaptist." (See Part II p. 156). So also was Capt. John Darling and family. They all attended the Anabaptist meeting in Mendon (Bellingham) and Dec. 20, 1741 were excused from paying "Ministerial rates" on this account. (See "Annals of Mendon.") Sylvanus Scott, who married the widow of Ichabod Bosworth--Henry's brother--was also an "Anabaptist." He was a witness to Capt. Darling's will.
July 16, 1733, John Darling of Bellingham, yeoman for £30 deeds to Henry Bosworth of Mendon, Cooper, 32 acres of land in Mendon; also 10 acres more of common land to be laid out.
(Worcester Deeds 13_232)
Nov. 26, 1733, Henry Bosworth of Mendon, cooper, for £30, buys 21 3/4 acres of land in Mendon and 10 acres in Uxbridge.
(Worcester Deeds 34_75)
July 26, 1738, John Darling of Mendon "in ye county of Worcester" for £100 deeds 20 acres of land to Henry Bosworth of Mendon, cooper.
(Worcester Deeds 13_229)
Feb. 29, 1739_40, Henry Bosworth was one of the partners in the Land Bank.
July 15, 1740, land was laid out for "Henry Borsworth" 2 acres 10 rds. "in the tenth division of land laid Joyning to his other land on the East side in the great river near Philip Amedowns ...a three cornerd peace"; and on the same day 2 acres in the ninth division, joining the same, "laid out by Thomas White, surveyor; benjamin darling, henry borsworth, chainmen."
(Proprietors Records, Mendon, p. 669)
Sept. 23, 1740, Henry Bosworth of Mendon, husbandman, for £110, buys of William Phillips 20 acres of land with a dwelling house, adjoining land of John Darling.
(Worcester Deeds 13_230)
Jan. 1, 1741, Henry's name in the Worcester Registry returns for Land Bank.
(N. E. Hist. Reg. 50_192)
Nov. 28, 1741, Henry and Deborah for £360 sold 70 acres of land in Mendon and 14 acres in Mendon and Uxbridge, to John Darling.
(Worcester Deeds 19_23)
Nov. 15, 1744, and Jan. 2, 1745_6, Henry Bosworth's name in the News Letter of the Land Bank.
Mar. 15, 1754, After Capt. Darling's death, his son, Samuel Darling was apt. Guardian to the three younger children of Henry Bosworth "now or late of the province of New Jersey;" Mary, 17; Rachel, 15; and Eunice, 10; their mother, Deborah being dead and their grandfather, Capt. John Darling, having left them property in his will. All were living "out of the province."
(Boston Probate 49_137)
June 17, 1763, Theophilus Sweet and Elizabeth his wife both of Nine Partners, "Dukes County" (Dutchess), New York, sell to Timothy Darling of Bellingham, county of Suffolk Mass. Bay, "one share in five in a small tract of land that was set off to our mother Deborah Bosworth deceased out of our grandfather John Darlings real estate as her portion in said estate ... situated in Bellingham aforesaid containing about Thirty acres."
Signed sealed and delivered in presence of Samuel Very, Aaron Buxton, Eunice Bosworth.
(Boston Deeds 122_157)
Note: The above deed plainly shows that there were five children, the three youngest are named above and this shows the elder was named Elizabeth, from Deborah's mother. The name of the second has not been discovered, but the compiler wonders if her name was not Sarah, from Henry's mother.
Feb. 20, 1765, John Stafford and wife Eunice, for £8, give a quit-claim deed to "our cousin Timothy Darling of Bellingham," to all the real estate that came to them from their "hond grandfather Capt. John Darling deced ... and was set off ... to the heirs of our mother Deborah Bosworth deceased, the youngest daughter of said Capt. John Darling," etc.
(Boston Deeds 122_185)
Timothy Darling was a son of Ebenezer, Deborah's brother.
Children
of Henry5 and Deborah (Darling) Bosworth
born in Mendon, Mass.
418+ i--Elizabeth6, born about 1733; d. ((???)); m. Theophilus Sweet.
419 ii--(A dau., see father's history above.) born abt. 1735. [Believed to be Sarah]
420 iii--Mary6, born (???) 1737; m. Caleb Buxton.
421 iv--Rachel6, born (???) 1739; m. Aaron Buxton.
422 v--Eunice6, born (???) 1744; m. John Stafford.
The last three lived in Smithfield, R. I.
[Clarke, Mrs. Mary Bosworth. Bosworth Genealogy vol. 4. San Francisco: n.p., 1928]