Darlinton also served as a delegate to the convention that drafted the first state constitution for Ohio.

They lived in Romney for a few months, until moving to a farm she owned in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

There, two sons were born, the couple joined the Presbyterian Church, and Darlinton was elected County Commissioner.

[1] Life in Pennsylvania depressed them, so they took a boat down the Ohio River to Limestone (now Maysville), Kentucky, landing there November 14, 1794.

He became a ferryman, but tired of that, and brought land across the river in the Northwest Territory, and moved there in the spring of 1797.

[3] In 1802, Darlinton was elected as one of three Adams County delegates, along with Israel Donalson and Thomas Kirker, to the first Constitutional Convention of Ohio which met November 1–29, 1802.