George Walker (1758 - 1826)

Born 17 Oct 1758 in Prince Georges County, Province of Maryland

Husband of Ann Martha Bryan (Gray) Walker — married 8 Dec 1779 in Prince Georges Co, MD

Descendants

Died 20 Jun 1826 at age 67 in Purdum, Montgomery County, Maryland, United States

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Biography

George Walker served with Middle Battalion, Montgomery County Militia, Maryland Militia during the American Revolution.

George Walker is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A118252.

It is believed by many that John Walker, the second son of that name to be born to Francis and Catherine, went by the name of George Walker in his life.

1758 Birth

John Walker

John Walker, the second son of Francis, born before 1724, and Catherine Walker, to bear the name, was born 17 Oct 1758 in King George's Parish, Prince George's County, ^[1]

He is listed as John Walker, born October 17, 1758 and son of Francis and Catherine, in the records of St. John's Church, Piscataway Parish, Prince George's County. ^[2] The church is located at Broad Creek, south of Washington, D.C., between Washington and Fort Washington. The parish served a large area, and little inference can be made of where the Walkers were living when George was born.

George Walker

George Walker, son of Francis and Catherine, was born in Prince George's County, Maryland, October 17, 1758. ^[3]

George Walker was born 17 October 1759 in Prince George's County, Maryland. ^[4]

John/George

John/George was born Oct 17, 1758 d. 1826 in Montogmery County.^[5]

1775 John Walker Witness to Will of Richard Ball

In 1775 John Walker witnessed the will of Richard Ball. ^[1]

BALL, RICHARD, Prince George's Co. 27 Feb. 1775 16 Oct. 1775

• To dau. Ann Barrett, Negro woman Hanner, during life of my dau.; then to be sold and money equally divided between 8 grandchildren, Arnold, Henry, Edward, Richard and Cassey Burgess, Josep[h] Lowden Barritt Lissey Ann Barrett and Mary Elnour Barritt.
• To granddau. Elenour Walker, stock.
• To dau. Sarah Simpson, bed, stock.
• To son Hillery Ball, stock, bed.
• To 2 grandsons: Zacheriah Wheat and Jesse Wheat, 1 shilling each.
• To 2 grandsons: Richard and Daniel Readey, ?10 each when 21 years of age.
• To 2 granddaus: Virlinder and Elizabeth Wheat, 1 shilling each.
• To son Henry Ball, 20 shillings.
• To son Richard Ball, ex., Negro men Sambor and Michell and a Negro woman Sook and a child Linn, and residue of estate.
• Wit: Robert Wade; Henry Walker; John Walker. 40.458

Revolutionary War

John

On February 16, 1820, the Treasurer was directed to pay to John Walker of Frederick County, half pay of a corporal, as a further compensation for those services rendered by him during the rev. war. ^[6]

In the records of 1820 another John Walker is noted as a private in the revolution, in Houseger's Regt. ^[6]

On March 8, 1848, the Treasurer was directed to pay, quarterly, to Mary Walker, widow of John Walker, a soldier of the rev, beginning Jan 1, 1848, half pay of a corporal, in consideration of her husband's services in the rev. war. ^[6]

This must be a different family because George's wife Ann was living at the time he wrote his pension.

George

George Walker served in the Maryland militia during the Revolution.

On 15 July 1780 a "George Walker is included on the muster list...as returned by Col. Archibald Orme of the Montgomery County Middle Battalion...[and] is listed as being a member of the '6th Company, Class No. 6' of the above Battalion. ^[7]

Other accounts of that date show him as Private, 6th Co, Middle Bn, Militia, July 15,1780 ^[7] Note: DAR research agrees with this assessment of his service.^[8]

Researcher Gene Walker is inclined to believe George was earlier in the Charles County militia. "Our guy was living near Piscataway in either Prince George's County or Charles County, Maryland. Therefore, our George Walker was most likely a member of the Charles County, Maryland Militia under Gen. Smallwood. He served for just a few months in the late summer and fall of 1777." ^[9]

He volunteered as a soldier in the Revolutionary War at age 17 or 18. He was most likely a member of the Maryland Militia under Gen. William Smallwood and fought in two battles: the Battle of Germantown on 4 October 1777 and another battle unknown; but, in all likelihood was the Battle of Paoli on 21 September 1777. ^[4]

Other service is less certain. On February 4th, 1777, a George Walker enlisted as a matrosse (gunner's helper) for three years. He was in Company #6, whose officers were John Drawbridge, Captain and Michael McNemona, First Lieutenant, as it stood at Valley Forge June 4, 1778. ^[10] It appears increasingly likely, however, that this is a different George Walker. Gene Walker indicates that "my research in August of 2012 revealed that this is incorrect. The George Walker of the First Continental Artillery was a resident of Northumberland County, Virginia. ^[9]

Roby Day ^[11] wrote that George was in two engagements; one the battle of Germantown, the other not recalled..." , possibly Brandywine. However, this obituary, written in 1826 but recounting events of 50 years before may have been in error.

1779 Marriage

In late 1779 George Walker married Ann Martha Bryan Gray. Nothing is known of his wife prior to the marriage. It is not known if her birth surname was Gray, or if she was a widow whose birth surname was Bryan.

Brumbaugh reports the date of the marriage license as December 7, 1779, when George was aged 20 and while he was still a member of the Montgomery County Middle Battalion. ^[12]

Ann is listed as Ann Gray and George as George Walker. ^[12]

Robert Barnes, reporting on the marriage license returns of Rev. Edward Gantt ^[13] reports the date as December 9, 1780, when George was 21, and when first daughter Elizabeth, b. 1780, was either born or on the way.

As noted previously, by 15 July 1780, George Walker was a member of the Middle Battalion, Montgomery County militia. This would suggest that the time of his marriage coincided with a move westward from Prince Georges County to Montgomery County.

They moved to Montgomery County to land called Smith Farm/ ^[5]

Farm

George Walker and his new wife moved to Mountain View (Purdum) where he resided until his death. "What is now the Smith farm was the older Walker homestead and on this farm he and his wife are buried." ^[14] The "Smith Farm" was located westward from the intersection of Purdum Road and Prices Distillery/Mountain View Road near Browningsville in the northwest corner of Montgomery County.

In 1783, the new homestead was in a "border" zone between the rich, largely German-settled agriculture of Frederick County to the west, and the worn-out tobacco plantations of Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties to the east and south. Isaac Weld, a traveller in the 1790's described the contrast as he travelled east from Frederick: "Instead of well-cultivated fields, green with wheat...large pieces of land, which have been worn out with the culture of tobacco are here seen lying waste...Instead of the furrows of the plough, the marks of the hoe appear on the ground; the fields are overspread with little hillocks for the reception of tobacco plants, and the eye is assailed in every direction with the unpleasant sight of gangs of male and female slaves toiling under the harsh commands of the overseer.'" ^[15]

In 1783 Maryland assessed all its property. Montgomery County was poorer than the more established Counties: in Montgomery County in 1783 47.7% of households owned less than £50, and 60% owned less than £100, while in Charles County only 46.8% owned less than £100. ^[15]

The Montgomery County assessment of that year gives a valuable impression of the area George Walker lived in -- Tax District 5, probably in the Linganore Hundred -- compared to other areas. The quality of the soil was assessed, and while in all but one district the majority of soil was considered poor, in District 5 more tracts were considered poor than in any other district.

Dwellings likewise were small and poor. The typical Montgomery County log or frame house in 1783 was twenty-four (or twenty) feet by sixteen feet. "The dwellings likely had earthen floors and chimneys made of clay and wood, rarely of brick...The second most common structure in the county was the tobacco barn...only a few farmers [in Montgomery] built barns for sheltering livestock--unlike their German wheat farmers in Frederick County, who built substantial barns which dwarfed the living houses...The attitude that dominated much of the Chesapeake also characterized the settlers of Montgomery:" they felt little desire to improve a land they only intended to exhaust and abandon. ^[15]

Instead of investing in land and improvements, historian Barnett writes, the Montgomery County farmer of 1783 invested in slaves. "For tobacco planters, buying a slave [instead of land] often made sound economic sense--considering how rapidly tobacco exhausted land. Instead of land, they bought laborers whom they could move when their rented acreage became infertile" ^[16]

"The transiency rate among Montgomery County whites was also extraordinary. By comparing the 1776 census for Northwest Hundred with the 1783 assessment, one can get some idea of the rate of transiency out of the county in this era. Of the ninety-eight households heads in the 1776 census for Northwest Hundred, only forty-nine remained seven years later." ^[16]

"By 1783...Montgomery had become a relatively barren landscape. The planters had exhausted most of the best county land with their continual crops of tobacco. The people of the county were primarily poor and landless, and most of its young people were forced to move on in order to have any opportunity of succeeding economically. Also, communities in the county must have been tenuous, considering the dispersed pattern of settlement and the almost continual mobility out of the county. Like other old plantation counties, Montgomery's population declined during the 1790';s as its people struggled to rebuilt their economy in the midst of plummeting tobacco prices. In 1790 Montgomery had a population of 18,003, but this number declined over the decade to 15,058, and the population remained stagnant through the Civil War. ^[16]

By contrast, "from the moment they settled, the primarily German people of Frederick had constructed more diverse economies based on mixed farming. They raised a variety of grains and shipped their surplus wheat to Philadelphia and Baltimore by wagon for export. These people immediately established Lutheran and Reformed congregations and built churches in Frederick and other rural communities. Farming less-exhaustive grains, they did not deplete the nutrients of the soil, and their communities became marked by long-term stability, larger populations, and relatively even distribution of wealth. On essentially the same land, the people of Frederick had created a fundamentally different economy and society from the one that prevailed in the tidewater and Montgomery. ^[17]

Religion - 1789

George Walker's religious conversion, and other details of his life, were provided in a lengthy obituary which appeared in The Methodist Magazine in June, 1827: ^[18]

When about 30, under the preaching of the Methodists, he was awakened to a sense of his lost condition, by nature, and felt that without a saving interest in Jesus Christ, he was undone forever. This produced conviction, and an earnest seeking for mercy and salvation through the blood of atonement. In a short time, it pleased God, for our dear Redeemer's sake, in a love feast, to grant him that faith the exercise of which "justifies the ungodly." He pardoned his sins, and sealed the evidence of his acceptance through the Beloved, clearly upon his heart and conscience, which caused him to shout aloud the praises of the Lord. From this period, Brother Walker's religious career commences, so honorable to himself, so ornamental to the church of God, and so useful to his fellow beings. He possessed a steady, inflexible virtue, and a regard to principle superior to all custom and opinion. It may be said in strict truth, that he honored God by an upright walk and chaste conversation. ^[18]

Class Leader

In the order of the M. E. Church [Methodist Episcopal Church] he was appointed to lead a class in his neighborhood. In this station, he justly ranks among the first; his great piety, correctness in all the social and relative duties of life, and consistent deportment, generally having a powerful tendency to enforce, by example, the salutary precepts given in the class room. He seemed, indeed, to have embraced the truth in the love thereof. Religion was his chief good; its practice, his highest delight. He was particularly attached to what he called "Old Methodism." Our brother was one of those unfortunate men who had not received an education; yet, under the influence of the Holy Spirit, he would frequently exhort in a manner astonishing and profitable to his hearers. ^[18]

Family - 1790

George Walker is listed in Montgomery County in the Census of 1790 as living with 1 male under 16, 4 females and 1 slave. ^[19] In addition to his wife, that family would have consisted of:

Elizabeth Ellen, born in 1780 and now aged 10;

Mary, called "Polly", born before 1784 and at least 6;

John, also born before 1784 and at least 6;

Ann, born after 1784 and under 6;

Elizabeth's marriage - 1798

Before the end of the decade the oldest of his children, 18 year old Elizabeth Ellen, married and moved to a family of her own with husband William Simpson Beall, whose father and grandfather had been tobacco planters in the area before George Walker and his family arrived.

Family - 1800

1800 brought another Census. That year, in Montgomery County, District 1, is listed, in addition to the parents, a male and female in each of the age ranges 16-26, 10-16 and 0-10. Elizabeth was gone, and now the family consisted of:

Mary "Polly" born before 1784 and at least 16;

John, born before 1784 and also at least 16;

Ann, born between 1784 and 1790 and now 10-16;

George Bryan, born 4 Mar 1792 and now 8;

Nathan, b. October 20, 1795 and now 5;

Lydia, born 23 Mar 1798 and now 2.

Migrations Westward

As George Walker's family grew up, the country was exploding westward. Several ridges of mountain west of their farm, Hagerstown was a focal point for westward travel. From Hagerstown, after about 1790, migrants might go south on the Great Valley Road to the Wilderness Road or the Nashville Road into Tennessee and Kentucky. Alternatively, from Hagerstown they might take the Cumberland Road to Wheeling and from there water passage on the Ohio River to the Maysville Turnpike which led into the Kentucky interior. Several decades later, the route west to Ohio became the National Turnpike, going through Columbus, Ohio and extending west through central Indiana and Illinois, coming to an end at Vandalia, where connecting roads took pioneers to St. Louis, where river passage took them into the interior of Missouri.

Census of 1810

George Walker is listed in the 1810 Census of Montgomery County between David King and William S. Beall; George's daughter Elizabeth had been married to William S. Beall for 12 years. The George Walker household consists of 6: a man and woman each aged over 45, George Walker and his wife. Mary "Polly" and John are now both over 26 and away from home; still home are:

Ann, born between 1784 and 1790 and now 16-25;

George Bryan, born 4 Mar 1792 and now 18;

Nathan, b. October 20, 1795 and now 15;

Lydia, born 23 Mar 1798 and now 12.

No "other free persons" and no slaves and listed. ^[20]

Ohio - 1820

Two of George Walker's sons joined the westward migration.

Nathan became a Methodist minister and in 1820 at the age of 25 was received on trial to the Ohio Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, and appointed to the Duck Creek Circuit. He was ordained deacon in 1822, and elder in 1824, but died of typhus fever in 1825.

John also moved to Ohio, and no further record exists of him. In 1820, there were persons named John Walker in the following counties of Ohio: Athens, Brown (2), Butler, Clermont, Columbiana, Fairfield, Fayette, Hamilton (2), Highland, Jefferson, Portage (2). Ross (3), Harrison (2), Pickaway and Champaign (2 - spelled Jon).

Will (1826)

In January, 1826, several months into his 68th year, George Walker wrote his will: ^[21] ...I, George Walker, Sen, of Montgomery Co...unto my beloved wife Ann Martha Walker...dear daughter Mary Walker, who now is living with me, to be sole executrix...4th day of Jan 1826.

His George + Walker, Sen. Mark

Witnesses to the will were William Willson of John, Richard R. Waters, and George E. Pryor.

Hydrophobia (1826)

Perhaps the will was a premonition, for:

In the latter part of April, 1826, Brother Walker was bitten by his own dog, (which proved to be mad,) in the same hand in which he was bitten when young, but was then cured. He was advised by a practitioner of medicine in this county, to pass through a course of physic, for the purpose of trying to effect a cure in the latter case, but was unwilling to do so. He placed himself under the direction of a respectable lady of this county, who supposed that she possessed the means of curing the hydrophobia; however, in this event, she entirely failed. A few days after receiving the bite which terminated his life, he went to the parsonage in Clarksburg, to see Brother Chapman, the preacher in charge of the circuit, and informed him of the circumstance, and said, upon receiving it, he went in secret and prayed to God, that if it should be his lot to die from the wound he had received, so to control the disease, as that he might die in his senses, and as he had lived shouting, to let him die shouting also. This prayer serves to illustrate in a striking point of view, the piety of our brother, and his confidence in God....^[18]

In the interim between receiving the bite and being attacked with the hydrophobia, he attended his class meeting regularly, often told of his happiness and enjoyments, notwithstanding the thought of having to die with it. He attended a quarterly meeting June 12th, 1826. In love feast (the means of grace in which he was converted,) he rose--his locks perfectly whitened by time, and recorded his testimony for Jesus; his remarks were weighty and impressive beyond description; it seemed as if the powers above were giving almost visible proof of the truth of his profession--none present but who felt their force. In the conclusion he said, "I am happy in the love of God, and see my way clear to heaven, and if I die raving mad, I believe God will let me go off shouting to glory." He took his leave of the congregation, and requested them to meet him in heaven.^[18]

Final Illness

On Friday, the 22nd of June, he had strong symptoms of hydrophobia, sent for Mr. Summers, a near neighbor of his, to come and see him, who, when he arrived, found him laboring under that afflicting malady, but unspeakably happy in the Lord. His prayer offered after receiving the bite was literally answered. The hydrophobia was raging in all its violence, yet, astonishing to relate, our beloved brother preserved his reason entire, a circumstance very rare, if not alone in such a disease. Unlike those who are usually afflicted with it, he was perfectly harmless, offering no injury to any person. On the contrary, when the violence of the convulsions would subside, he would commence shouting and praising God, and exhorting all those about him, who had not religion, to seek it, and would tell his old classmates "to hold fast a little longer, and as soon as their work as finished, they would receive their reward." He could not take any kind of drink. Water was brought to him, but he fainted at the sight. At a certain time he said that he was tempted to curse and swear, but he said, "I will not, Christ has given me the victory," and gave glory to God.^[18]

Sometime before his death he was sitting very composedly on his bed side, suddenly starting up, he observed, "that he saw his son Nathan (who had formerly been a travelling preacher in the Ohio Conference, and had been dead about twelve months,) in heaven, and that he would be with him before many days." The manner in which this observation was made, produced an impression of the minds of all present, that by faith he had a view of that blessed region. On Saturday and Sunday, as the disease drew to its consummation, his sufferings were of a most excruciating nature. He was still firm and resigned. He said to his friends, that this misery was so great that he could tear his flesh. On an occasion of much pain, he commenced scratching the floor with his nails, but, as if recollecting himself, he meekly raised his eyes to heaven, and besought the Lord "not to forsake him now, and to give him ease;" and in a moment he was all tranquility and rejoicing. But his agonies were soon to cease; the kind messenger sent to release him from his prison of clay was just at the door.^[18]

Monday morning, resting in the arms of Mr. Summers, he looked his daughter in the face, who was holding him by the hand, and said, "Oh, how I could shout, but I am too weak, and must forbear. At this moment, the message was delivered--he was heard to exclaim. "Glory!" and his soul left this vale of suffering and of woe, "to dwell where Jesus is." Thus, on the 20th day of June, 1826, about two months after receiving the bite, and four days from the first symptoms of hydrophobia, our beloved Walker expired, without a struggle, in the 67th year of his age, leaving an aged and afflicted companion, and six children to mourn his loss. ^[18]

George Walker died on June 20, 1826 on Smith Farm, Mountain View, Montgomery Co. MD. ^[5]

He died of hydrophobia on 26 June 1826, buried in Purdum, Montgomery County, Maryland) and Ann Martha Bryan Gray (born ca. 1760, died after 1826, buried in Purdum, Montgomery County, Maryland). ^[4]

Remembrance

Their loss, however, is his infinite gain. Our deceased brother possessed many qualities both as a Christian and a citizen calculated to inspire respect; but contemplating him only in the point of view in which the circumstances of his demise present him to us, and remarking the piety, patience and rationality maintained by him throughout the whole, who can forbear the conviction that this man was of God, and how transcendently excellent is that religion, which amidst such keen afflictions, is able to bear up and invigorate the mind to the last.^[18]

Although brother Walker, when living, was the means of doing much good, yet, Samson like, he may be said to have done more at his death than in all of his life. His house during the whole course of his affliction, had been thronged by acquaintances and others anxious to pay him a tribute of respect. Seeing him under such circumstances and witnessing the manner of his death, has had the tendency to fix the truth of religion in their minds indelibly, especially it has made friends to Methodism, in persons where animosity existed before. Added to this his uniform uprightness and great consistency of character gave a powerful interest in the events attending his decease. His piety has been habitually active. A gentleman from an adjoining neighborhood, who knew him well for 25 years, has observed, since his death, "That he never saw the least variation in his character or conduct." In fact, no deviations marked his course--no ebbings and flowings--the same zeal, the same love for God and man, continued to evince themselves during the life. Our dear brother has gone, but he has left a delightful fragrance behind, grateful to his surviving friends and encouraging to every disciple of Jesus. He was a member of the church militant 37 years, and has been removed to the church triumphant to live in it forever. His departure is severely felt, and has caused a vacuum not likely soon to be filled. But while the Methodist Church mourns the absence of one of its brightest ornaments, his family the bereavement of an affectionate husband and an indulgent father, his neighbors the loss of a kind and obliging friend, and society in general, the deprivation of a useful member and citizen--it is consoling to know that he is in Abraham's bosom; that united to the high and glorious company of angels, the general assembly and church of the first born, he is ready to renew the connections death has dissolved. ^[18]

George Walker's will was received 15 Nov 1826 and proved by William Willson of John March 20, 1827.

Children

The children of George and Ann were: Elizabeth Ellen b. 1780 (married William Simpson Beall on Dec. 1798 in FR), Ann b.~1782, and John b. ~ 1784. ^[5]

Children soon followed the marriage, with their first daughter born in 1780. In all they had seven children: ^[22]

1. Elizabeth Ellen Walker, born in Purdum, Maryland, 1780. Elizabeth Ellen, b. 1780 ^[23]
2. Mary "Polly" Walker, born before 1784 (?) Married George White. Not married and living at home when father's will written 4 Jan 1826. A Mary Ann Walker married George T. White 7 Feb 1837 (FCML) If this is the same couple, Mary might have been born as late as, but no later than 1800, when her mother turned 45.
3. John Gray Walker born in 1784. John Walker, born before 1784 (?) Went to Ohio. [In 1820 there were persons named John Walker in the following counties of Ohio: Athens, Brown (2), Butler, Clermont, Columbiana, Fairfield, Fayette, Hamilton (2), Highland, Jefferson, Portage (2). Ross (3), Harrison (2), Pickaway and Champaign (2 - spelled Jon). ^[24]
4. Catherine Walker, born in 1790. Ann Walker, born between 1784 and 1790 (?) Married a John Bear. Note that a Catharine Walker and Michael Bear married 5 Feb 1802 (FCML). ^[25]
5. George Bryan Walker, born in 1792. George Bryan, born 4 Mar, 1792.
6. Nathan Walker born in 1795 Nathan Walker, b. October 20, 1795 in Montgomery County, Md. In 1820 received on trial to Ohio Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church; appointed to Duck Creek Circuit. Ordained deacon 1822, elder 1824. While appointed to Deer Creek Circuit, died in Oldtown 26 August 1825 of typhus fever. ^[26]
7. Lydia Walker, born 23 Mar 1798. Married 15 Dec 1817 Jesse King. ^[27]

1830 Death of Son Nathan Walker

Presumably, if Nathan Walker's mother, Ann Martha Walker, were still living in 1830, she would have had a legal claim on her dead son's estate, since Nathan's father was already dead. If so, then we can conclude that Ann Martha Walker died before 1830 making only Nathan's siblings heirs at law. ^[28]

When son Nathan Walker died in 1830 without wife or children, Nathan's siblings were the heirs. To settle the estate, the series of deeds name all of the siblings alive at that time. ^[29] Mentioned in these documents are:

• Jesse and Lydia King, formerly Lydia Walker, of Frederick County, Maryland;
• Michael Bear and his wife Catherine Bear, "formerly Catherine Walker one of the sisters and heirs at law of Nathan Walker of the town of Flushing, Belmont County, Ohio" ^[30]
• John G. Walker "one of the brothers and heirs at law of Nathan Walker of Harrison County, Virginia"; ^[31]
• George B. Walker,
• Mary Walker ^[32]
• Elizabeth Beall, formerly Elizabeth Walker of Montgomery County, Maryland.

Research Notes

Often Confused with George Walker, b. 1732

Often confused with an earlier George Walker who is given the same death by hyrdophobia: George Walker was born before 1732 when the family came to America. He settled eventually in that part of Frederick County which in now Montgomery County. George died in 1775 from the bite of a dog resulting in hydrophobia. He left a wife and six children who are enumerated in the Census of 1776. Lower Potomac Hundred, Frederick Co., Maryland. They are: Male b. 1761, Benjamin b. 1763, Elizabeth b. 1765, Susanna b. 1768, Jonathan b. 1772, George b. 1774. ^[33] Irma Ruth Mason Anderson (Mrs. Arvid E. Anderson, 144 Kenneth St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, January 1966) has written up this George in the Blake-Ambrose Family History (pp 17-18) using Williams and also Accounts Liber 72, f. 250, Hall of Records, Annapolis, MD. Robert Ferguson was administrator of the estate of this earlier George Walker and rendered a statement of his account 23 July 1775.

Susanna is possibly Susanna who in 1787 married Henry Ambrose .

Often Confused With George and Vineay Walker

Another Walker family, also of English descent, came into the same area of Frederick County from Philadelphia. They may have been related but I have not been able to determine the relationship nor to learn the maiden name of George's wife, Vineay. It is likely that she took the children after her husband's death to live with his brother, Jacob, who had migrated earlier to Brothers Valley Township, Bedford Co., PA. There Susan would have met Henry Ambrose whom she married about 1787. Both families were communicants of the Reformed & Lutheran Church in Berlin, PA. Date: Aug 2000

Addendum: John Gray Walker

In 1830 John G. Walker lived in Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia--Clarksburg is the county seat) before he finally ended-up in Elkhart County, Indiana. He and Aletha died on 3 February and 4 February respectively in 1855. I presume that Aletha Summers may be a daughter of Hezekiah Summers a near neighbor of George Walker, mentioned in his 1827 obituary. A photograph of their gravestone memorializes him as Rev. John G. Walker (you can see it on the find a grave.com website, I placed a copy at the bottom of this email). Family tradition states that both Nathan and his brother John were Methodist ministers. Perhaps the Methodist church has historical records in Virginia related to John G. Walker's ministry there in the 1820's30/'s.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Mike Marshall. Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties. John Walker Accessed 4/26/2019 jhd
2. ↑ Records of Piscataway Parish (St. John's), Prince George's County, Maryland, 1691-1801, page 279, filed now with the Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore.
3. ↑ "Memoir of Mr. George Walker," The Methodist Magazine, New York, June 1827, page 278-280. The Memoir gives the date as 1759, but states that George was "in his 67th year of age when he died on June 20, 1826. Given this, he would have been 68 on October 17, 1826, had he lived, placing the correct birth date as October 17, 1758.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Ancestor of Stewart E. Walker. DNA Participant 247593, Group-66
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3} Joan Majtenyi. Descendants of Francis Walker b. 1720 of Prince Georges Co., MD. Genforum, January 26, 2012. I have collected a great deal of information on his descendants including the wills of his son Francis Sr. and Benjamin and, grandsons Zachariah and Thomas. Anyone wishing copies of the originals from the MD Archives need only contact me and I will gladly share. The following is based on information on these wills combined with census and deed data. http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/walker/29540/. Accessed November 13, 2015.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} Digest of Kilty's Laws Showing Maryland Revolutionary War Pensions; Revolutionary War Pensions in Report of Secretary of War, 1835; Some Original Commissions. Pages 314-411 in Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh, Maryland Records: Colonial, Revolutionary, County and Church from Original Sources. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1928, Volume II. Page 402.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} S. Eugene Clements and F. Edward Wright, The Maryland Militia in the Revolutionary War, Silver Spring, Md: Family Line Publications, 1987, pp. 201, 203.
8. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 27 Jan 2023), "Record of George Walker", Ancestor # A118252.
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} Gene Walker, E-mail correspondence, Dec 7, 2013
10. ↑ W. T. R. Saffell, Records of the Revolutionary War, p. 248. [Book is located in Library of Congress].
11. ↑ Roby F. Day, "Genealogy of the Walker Family of Montgomery County, Maryland, Gathered from various sources," unpublished paper, Allenwood, NJ, February 17, 1950 quoting George Walker's 1826 obituary.
12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1} Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh, "Marriage Licenses Issued at Upper Marlborough, Prince George's County, Maryland, 1777-1801. Maryland Records: Colonial, Revolutionary, County and Church, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1915. Volume I, p. 118, 163
13. ↑ filed 11 Nov 1778, 4 Nov 1779, 20 Nov 1780, 22 Nov 1782. Scharf Papers, MS 1999, at MHS. Robert Barnes, Maryland Marriages 1778-1800. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1979
14. ↑ Parepa W. Day, "Songfest is Planned As Tribute to Late Prof. George Walker.", Mt. Airy Community Reporter, June 22, 1934
15. ↑ ^{15.0 15.1 15.2} Todd H. Barnett, "Tobacco, Planters, Tenants and Slaves: A Portrait of Montgomery County in 1783," Maryland Historical Magazine, 89:2 (Summer, 1994), p. 184. Quoting Isaac Weld, Travels Through North America, London, 1799, pp 99-105.
16. ↑ ^{16.0 16.1 16.2} Todd H. Barnett, p. 199.
17. ↑ Todd H. Barnett, p. 200.
18. ↑ ^{18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 18.5 18.6 18.7 18.8 18.9} "Memoir of Mr. George Walker," The Methodist Magazine, New York, June 1827, pages 278-280. "The writer's name accompanied the manuscript, but with a request it might not be published."
19. ↑ Heads of Families of the First Census of the U. S., Taken in the Year 1790. Baltimore, Geneal. Publ. Co, 1972., p. 86.
20. ↑ Census of 1810, Montgomery County, Page 318, reported in Western Maryland Genealogy, Donna Valley Russell, Ed., 10:3 (July, 1994), p. 139
21. ↑ MCW B:431 4 Jan 1826 - 3:318 20 Mar 1827. Now in Hall of Records, Montgomery Co. Wills Box 8, Folder 73.
22. ↑ Roby F. Day, "Genealogy of the Walker Family of Montgomery County, Maryland, Gathered from various sources," unpublished paper, Allenwood, NJ, February 17, 1950. A list from the same sources appears in the files of his brother-in-law, Muller Walker.
23. ↑ Roby F. Day / Muller Walker records show the name Elizabeth only. Ellen appears on later legal documents.
24. ↑ Kathy Walton, formerly of 38800 Millwood Drive, Woodlake, CA 93286 lists John Walker, b. Baltimore possibly near Susquehanna River 1777-1779, son of George Walker; married (1) 1798 in Baltimore Mary Wilmot, b. 1779 possibly in NY: Children were [1] Nancy Clark, [2] Elizabeth Woodworth, [3] George,[4] Eli Davis David, [5] Mary Clark, [6] John, [7] Sarah Barnett, [8] Henry, [9] Barbara, [10] Katherine, [11] Polly, [12] Sally; married (2) 1846 in Adams Co. Illinois Matilda Allison, b. 1791, c hildren unknown. "John may have had a brother Richard with a son James Freeman Walker. By 1813 John was in Campbell Co. Ky and between 1814-1830 John moved to Hancock Co. Ill and died there 3 August 1861. Check also with Roberta Lefler, BXCC06A.
25. ↑ Clif Wig, North Canton, OH. July 1992. (KNGM41A)
26. ↑ Methodist Episcopal Church, General Minutes for 1826, p. 504.
27. ↑ Roby F. Day, "Genealogy of the Walker Family of Montgomery County, Maryland, Gathered from various sources," unpublished paper, Allenwood, NJ, February 17, 1950. A list from the same sources appears in the files of his brother-in-law, Muller Walker. Acc to Muller walker, m. a King.
28. ↑ Gene Walker
29. ↑ Deeds settling Nathan Walker's Estate, Deed Record Book L, pages 199-207, Muskingum County Recorder's Office, Zanesville, Ohio
30. ↑ This confirms that Catherine Bear was indeed Catherine Walker as found in the Maryland marriage records, and must have been the "Ann" mentioned by both Muller Walker and Roby Day, who married "John Bear." Perhaps she was Catherine Ann and he was John Michael Bear.
31. ↑ This document also confirms John G. Walker (John Gray Walker, see Walkerana Volume I Second Edition, Blurb.com, 2014, page 341) who married Aletha "Lethy" Summers on 7 September 1805 as Nathan's brother.
32. ↑ This document also confirms that Mary Walker was still unmarried in 1830, four years after her father George's death. I believe she married George T. White in 1837.
33. ↑ Williams' "Historical & Biographical Record of Frederick Co., Maryland" vol. 2, p. 1271