#105 FOUR BROTHERS--DARIUS the 2ND SON
Anna and Bezaleel How’s four sons--Timothy, Darius, Baxter and Bezaleel, all served in the American Revolution. I have used the book Four Brothers in the American Revolution by Herbert Howe as my source for the How biographies. DARIUS HOWE Darius How, second son of Bezaleel and Anna was born on June 26 1746, in Marlborough, Massachusetts, the family’s ancestral home. He was just four when his father suddenly died, and his mother brought him back to his grandmother’s support. Around 1760, Darius, aged 14, joined a group of New Englanders seeking fertile soil and new opportunity and moved with them to New Marlborough in the Berkshires in western Massachusetts. By 1767, aged 24, Darius was a landowner and was set...