This is another cache in the Faded Markers Series. This series will mainly focus on older, near forgotten burial plots of pioneers in the Niagara Region and beyond. The goal of this series is not necessarily the length of the walk nor the difficulty of the find, but rather a simple reverence for those who came before us to shape our area.
The Darby family is unquestionably one of the first to have settled in Grantham Township. The primogenitor, John Darby, served in the British Army during the "French-Indian" or Seven Years War.
He initially lived in Niagara Township during the mid 1780s, but had settled in Grantham by 1787. He was alive in 1796 when he submitted his land petition, but appears to have died sometime after 1805. His farm was then taken over by his son, George Adam Darby (b ca. 1763).
George may have seen some action during the latter part of the American Revolutionary War. Around 1790 he was married to Margaret, the daughter of George Adam Bowman of Butler's Rangers. They had a large family of at least twelve children. George Darby served in the Lincoln Militia during the first year of the War of 1812, but died from sickness, contracted whilst on duty, December 7, 1812. The Darby farm was to remain in the possession of the family for over a century.
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