Person:Henry Walker (39)

Henry Walker was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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Land Acquisition

Botetourt Co., VA, Deed Book 6, page 300:

This Indenture made this 11th day of April in the year of Our Christ 1797 between William Walker of Botetourt County & State of Virginia of the one part & his son Henry Walker of the county and State aforesd. of the other part...sum of $300...tract of land it being part of a Grant of 275 acres granted to James Patton by a patent bearing date the 3rd day of November 1750 & conveyd. by said Patton to Robert Williams by a Deed admitted to record at Augusta March Court 1754 and conveyed by said Williams to William Walker by a deed admitted to record at Augusta Court 1765 said tract or parcel of land containing Eighty acres be the same more or less as is contained in the following boundries to wit

Beginning at three Sycamores on the South Bank of Craigs Creek on a line of said grant thence with said line North 73 degrees West 90 poles to a White Oak corner to the land of Henry Walker & to said Grant

thence, a Division line, North 70 west 125 poles crossing Craigs Creek to a Hickory & Mulberry on a line of sd. Grant

thence with the line of the same North 15 East 60 poles to a stake

South 85 East 50 poles to near the Creek

thence down the Creek 124 poles to a double Ash & Walnut on the South bank of the Creek corner to said Grant

thence, division lines, down the Creek with the Several Courses thereof 78 poles to the Beginning...

In testimony whereof the said William Walker hath hereunto set his hand and Seal the Day and Year above written.

[signed] William Walker

(witnesses) Jas. Heavin, Hugh Caldwell, William Givens

At July Botetourt Court 1797

This Indenture of Bargain & Sale was Exhibited in Court and proved by the oath of James Heavin, Hugh Caldwell & William Givens witnesses thereto

Subscribed and thereupon ordered to be Recorded.

A copy teste Hy. Bowyer C.B.C.

Will Abstract

Walker, Henry. Will probate 1803.

Names wife _________, and children: Andrew, William, Robert, Henry, Archabald, Mary, Joseph and George.

[Source: Early Marriages, Wills and some Revolutionary War Records, Botetourt County, Virginia, Compiled by Anne Lowry Worrell, pg. 64].

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   Capt Henry Walker
   Birth 1760
   Death Jun 1803 (aged 42–43)
   Virginia, USA
   Burial
   Walker Cemetery
   Potts Creek, Alleghany County, Virginia, USA
   
   Married Martha Woods 1781. She maybe buried here.
   Father of
   Andrew Woods Walker,
   William Walker,
   Robert Walker,
   James Walker,
   Henry Walker,
   Achibald Walker,
   Mary Woods Walker,
   Joseph Walker,
   George Walker,
   Martha Walker
   
   Son of
   William Walker
   Mary Levinia Bartley.
   
   Cemetery Location: 23 miles southwest of Covington, Virginia on Routes #60, #18 and #607.
   
   
   
   On December 26, 1776, Henry joined the Continental Army, 6th/10th lines of the Virginia Militia. He was a major and stationed at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-78. He was discharged in November 1779.
   
   https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12600806/henry-walker

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