Person:James Walker (244)

Around 1803 a James Walker came to Adams, Ohio^[1]^[2] with possible relatives Samuel Walker and William Walker. According to his Revolutionary War Pension application^[3], James was born in 1755 in Cumberland, PA. He went down with his father to Caswell, North Carolina. Shortly after the war he returned to Pennsylvania and then moved to Rockbridge, Virginia. Some researchers identify this man as the son of Robert Walker and Jane of Franklin, PA. However, their James Walker died in 1783 according to Mercerburg church records. The James of this page is almost certainly the son of an older James Walker who lived on Moon's Creek in Caswell, North Carolina. He is a grandson of an even older James Walker who died in 1779 in Newton, Cumberland, PA. In his pension application, James Walker identifies a Triplett family in North Carolina. He shot Francis Triplett, a Tory, in the Revolutionary War. Tax records in the late 1700's in St. David's District, Caswell, NC identify a James Walker and a James Walker Jr. (This man) living next to a Triplett family. The 1777 tax records describes Francis Triplett as a "Deceased Tory"^[4]An extra James Walker also pops up in the tax records in the later 1780's in Newton Township, Cumberland, PA^[5] which is consistent with this man's life story. The identities of the Samuel and William Walker who came with him to Adams Ohio are not fully known, but they are likely either brothers or first cousins through his uncle Robert Walker (1733-1790). His father was James Walker, Senior, but the identity of his mother is uncertain. Isabella was certainly a wife of James, but she was born in the 1740's, too young to have given birth to James Jr. at this point. James Senior likely had a wife before Isabella.

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Caswell Tax Records

Transcribed Fide Mary Ann Hubbell (Original records directly accessible here and here):

1777 – TAX LIST Caswell County

ST. DAVID'S DIST.

James Walker 269 - 8

Samuel Walker 241 - 11

James Walker Jr. (blank)

NASH DIST.

Moses Walker 1308 - 1 - 6

CASWELL DIST

John Walker 165 - 5

1780 – TAX LIST – Caswell County

Samuel Walker Caswell

John Walker Caswell

Noah Cobb St. David’s

James Walker St. David’s

James Walker, Jr. St. David’s

James Walker, Sr. St. David’s

1781 TAX LIST Caswell County

Noah Cobb St. David’s

James Walker St. David’s

James Walker, Sr. St. David’s

Samuel Walker St. David’s

1782 TAX LIST – Same as above

1784 TAX LIST Caswell County

James Walker Jr. 1 White poll; 0 Black Poll; 0 land

John Walker 1 White poll; 1 Black Poll 335 Acres on Hogan’s Creek

James Elliott 641 acres on Hogan’s Creek

Robert King 300 Acres on Hogan’s Creek

Samuel Walker 1 white poll; 0 Black Poll; 400 acres on Moon’s Creek

James Walker 1 White Poll; 0 Black Poll; 350 Acres on Moon’s Creek

Daniel Walker 1 White poll; 0 Black Poll; 0 land

References

↑ Mentions a migration date of 1803. Obituary of Rachel Walker Query, Marshall, Taylor, Iowa, USA Copy of book, "Alexander and Mary Stewart Query and their descendants John, George, William, Thomas, and Isabella" by Delores & Bill Brafford, in the possession of Joyce Powell
↑ Section: Adams Co., Administrators and Executors Docket Records, 1836-1841. Accessible here
↑ Revolutionary War App S3450. https://revwarapps.org/ Accessible here
↑ Accessible here
↑ Tax & Exoneration Lists, 1762–1794. Series No. 4.61; Records of the Office of the Comptroller General, RG-4. Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Accessible here