William Walker court case

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I was pleased to find a profile for William Walker (b. 1757) on WikiTree.  He would have been the uncle of one of my ancestors.  The court case listed as a source looks very promising but, ohh, the handwriting!  Before I start slogging through doing a decipher / transcription of it to see what genealogical gems are buried in there, I would like to ask if anyone has already done this?
WikiTree profile: William Walker
in Genealogy Help by David Fentress G2G6 (9.7k points)
From the resounding silence, I am going to assume that NO ONE has done this previously, so I have started to transcribe the court case.  After having reached page 4 (of about 13), I can confidently predict that :

 - this will take a while

 - the effort will probably be worthwhile in terms of new information or confirmation or other information about this family.

I will comment again here (with a link) when the effort has been completed.
I applaud you for doing that difficult work.  My great great grandfather was a William Walker born 1827 in Alabama.   He was living in Franklin County Illinois  where he married Mary Jane Kirkpatrick in 1854.  His mother is listed as Susan Vaughn who appears in the 1850 Franklin County  Illinois census.
The transcription of the the aforementioned court case has been completed.  I also found and transcribed  the will of William Walker which was the basis of the court case.  Both of these transcriptions can be found on a free space page which is linked as a source in the [[Walker-27614|profile of William Walker (1757-1840)]].  Also included are instructions for finding the original images of both documents, some analysis of the genealogical information contained in the documents and a number of comments.  As it says in the introduction there, both documents, but especially the court case, provide a wealth of genealogical information about the William Walker family and the spouses of William's children and some of William's grandchildren. The clerk of the court had horrible handwriting! The transcription of the court proceeding has a lot of words that proved to be undecipherable. As a result, the transcription is not of sufficient quality to understand the legal intricacies of the case but MOST of the genealogical information seems accurately transcribed.

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