Children of Sharach Walton and Mary Nutter: 2) Samuel. He was a shopkeeper in Somersworth in
1739/40, when his grandfather Col. Walton conveyed to him a marsh lot originally granted to “my father Mr. George Walton 18 4th mo. 1648.” He m. Elizabeth Pray, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Grant) Pray of York, May 26, 1727, in Newington. His will, dated Oct. 25 1753, and probated Jan. 30, 1754, mentions his sons Allen, George, Samuel, John, Shadrach and Benjamin, and his daughters Jane Downs, Elizabeth Walton and Frances Walton.** Samuel Walton, Jr., who was a mariner of Portsmouth, and who m. a daughter of Joseph Moses, was drowned with his wife, his sister, and his brother-in-law, Hunking Moses, near Dover Point on Oct. 30, 1762.
