Darlington, Thomas: 2/17/1866

AN OLD RESIDENT GONE.

Mr. Thomas Darlington died at his residence in Birmingham Township, Chester County, Pa., on the 17th ult., aged 82 years. He lived and died on the spot where he was born. He was a brother of that eminent botanist, Dr. Wm. (William) Darlington, late of West Chester. The recollections he retained of the neighborhood, were highly interesting. Although never married, he was the first, and for a time, the only man in the Township who held out for the Free School System. He kept a record of all the children, grand and great grand children of W. Brinton, who sailed from England in the last part of the Seventeenth Century, and purchased nearly all the land that is now enclosed in the township -- from whom it seems that nearly all the Darlingtons and Brintons have descended, and among them General Brinton McClellan. Thomas Darlington's memory was very good, and he had valuable things treasured in it. In the "History of Delaware County," a work now in the Wilmington Library- - his bestowments of precious treasures from his memory are therein thankfully acknowledged. He was much esteemed throughout the township and extensively in the Society of Friends, whereof he was a member.1

• 1. Delaware County American, 3/14/1866