• …married between Dec. 13, 1676 and June 10, 1680 Abigail (Messenger) Darling who was living on the date of Zachariah’s will.6825

• On Saturday, July 7, 1674, Abigail “Messenger”, the deserted wife of Richard Darling, requesting by petition an act of divorce and separation from said husband, with permission to remarry, on account that her husband, according to his own acknowledgement, had broken the marriage ties by committing adultery, and there upon had absconded, etc. “Ordered, petition postponed six months, within which time petitioner’s husband is ordered to come and purge himself of said charge, or in default, the petitioner will then be at liberty to prosecute her suit.1076

• This petition was postponed six months within which time Richard Darling was ordered to appear and answer the charges, but no final disposition appears on the record. On 1 September 1674 Abigail Messenger Darling conveyed her house and land “where I now live” to Jonathan Davis.121