Person:Charles Walker (12)

March 1699 / Court 457 By the information of James Moore Wee present John Rooke and Laurance Russell for Fighting allso wee present Charles Walker for Strikeing James Moor Constable. [worth noting - this same day Mareen Duvall & Nathanniell Wickhamm are on the jury. Paul Busey & Matthew Mackeboy are in trouble for fighting & drunkenness and Edward Willett is the one who turned them in [all of these families later have ties to Nelson Co. KY][MD Archives Online - Prince Georges Co.]

9 May 1698 Charles Walker Jr. is born in Ann Arundel or Prince Georges Co. MD - he is later seen in Frederick Co. MD with sons Charles and Nathaniel Walker

24 Oct 1721 Charles Walker of Prince Georges Co. MD - deed of gift to son Charles Walker land from his plantation.

28 May 1730 Charles Walker Sr. writes will in Prince Georges Co. MD - probated 30 Oct 1730 - names wife Rebecca and son Joseph - personal estate to his seven daughters. Inventory of his estate filed by wife Rebecca and is signed by John Digges, Isaac Lansdale, Thomas Williams, William Holmes, Van Swearingen and Charles Walker

March 26: 1741 This day came Richard Isaac Aged about Sixty Two Years being duly Sworn Declares that some time before the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Twenty that he and the Deceased Charles Walker was in Company and the said Charles Walker asked the Deponent to lend him some Land Warrant & he would take some Land Joyning Bacon Hall to Settle his son Charles on and the Deponant Shortly after assigned him Thirty five Acres of Warrant which was Executed upon the Afs’d Land and the Deponant further saith that some Years after he was in company with the Deceased Charles Walker and the said Charles asked the Deponant to go with him and help him Mark a Line Threw the afs’d tract of Land Called Bacon Hall for a Dividing Line between his son Charles and his wife Rebecca and Joseph which ye Deponant did taking Charles Walker the Son of the Deceased Charles with them and said to the Deponant Brother Richard the cause of my doing this you may be the Longest Liver and if there should be any Differences between my Two Sons and my wife that you may be an Evidence between them that it is my Intent that all the Land on the North side of this Line is for my son Charles and all the Land on the South side Intered for my Wife and my Son Joseph and further saith not. Sworn before Joseph Chapline – Note: there was Present both at the viewing of the lines and taking the Evidence Mathew Robertson, Nicholas Smith William Prather and John Turner and Alexander Falconer.

March 28th 1741 This day came Mathew Robertson aged about Thirty Eight Years being duly Sworn Declared that in the best of his Memory that in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Twenty four that Charles Walker, son of the Deceased Charles Walker was living on the same Plantation where he now liveth and the Deponant further saith that he knew the afs’d Plantation had been setteled some time before he went there to live and the Deponant further saith that some Years afterwards he was Ploughing on the Plantation whereon Joseph Walker now Liveth and the Deceased Charles Walker came and asked the Deponant if he knew where the Line was that he and Richard Isaac Marked for a Dividing Line between the two Sons for said he if there had been another Evidence I would not make and Will and further shall not. Sworn before Joseph Chapline.

March the 20th 1741 This day came Nicholas Smith Aged about 55 years being Duly Swornd Declares that some time about the first of December in the Year 1721 he was Living on the Plantation whereon Joseph Walker now Lives and Charles Walker, Son of the Deceased Charles Walker came and demanded possession of the afs’d Plantation which he immediately gave and went away and your Deponant further saith that some time in October in the Year 1724 he was Passing that way and found the said Chalres was removed and Living on the same Plantation whereon he now Liveth and the Deponant Called in and lighted his pipe and at the same time saw that there had been a crop of Indian Corn made that year and further saith not. Sworn before Joseph Chapline [Prince Georges Deed Book/Liber A/abstracted by Anne Livingston mizliv@yahoo.com]

21 Jan 1751 Charles Walker Senr. of Frederick County of the one part and Nathaniel Walker of the said County, Shoemaker of the other part. Witnesseth that the said Charles Walker for and in consideration of Twelve pounds to him in hand paid Hath given Granted Bargaind Sould to the said Nathaniel Walker all that Moiety or half part of a Tract of Land Called the Virgin's Delight Lying in the said County standing on the West Side of Kitocton Mountain & near the End of the fourth line of a Tract of Land Called Pila-- (can't make it out) Hall it being the Beginning Tree of the S'd Virgins Delight. (signed) Charles Walker Wits: John Darnall & Charles Darnall. returned 21 Jan 1750/51 at which time Mary Walker, wife of the said Charles Walker released her dower right. [Frederick County Deed/Liber B p. 333]

1.   Maryland Archives Online.
2.   Prince Georges County, Maryland Deed Books.