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- Person:Peter Walker (4)
Note 1
From :Ancestry World Trees, Jill Bennet, extracted January 2012
- Birth: 1620 in Prestwick, Lancaster, England
- Death: 18 MAR 1694/95 in Accomack Co., VA
- Will prove on June 17, 1696, probated Sept 15, 1696.
- To sons Henry and Peter Walker Jr.: 250 acres at the head of Pitts Creek at the VA-MD line.
- To son James Walker: 1/2 of 400 acres where I know live.
- To son Daniel (under age 21): 200 acres where I now live.
- To son Peter Jr.: 275 acres of marsh which Mr. Thomas Wilbourne and I took up, being 1/2 of an island between Gengoteage Island [Chincoteague Island] and Muskeedo Point.
- To daughter Mary.
- Wife resid. legatee.
- Sons Henry and Peter ex'rs.
- Witnesses:John Pitts, James Smith, Richard Flower.
- 1672-patent to Miles Gray for 400 acres; two years later he sold to John Flack who in turn sold to Peter Walker.
- Peter left tract to his sons James and Daniel.
- 1771,
- Daniel (wife, Jane) son of James, left the 1772 tract to son James.
- Daniel also left to his wife Jane and then to a daughter Ann, 80 acres in VA and 46 acres adjacent in MD "where Jacob Benston lives"
- 1719 James and Eliz Walker sold 200 acres to Henry Read;
- James had inheirted the tract from brother brother James who died without issue. 1724.
- Read and his wife Ann sell property to John Fish who. in turn, sells it in Tabitha Smith.
- 1780 Smith and Mary Walker Melvin of Worchester sell remaining 200 acres to Israel Lane; Transaction states that James Walker had died without issue and that Mary (his sister) had inherited.
- 1788 Lane leaves tract to his wife Jane and then to his daughters Zilpah and Polly.
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