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Facts and Events
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Sources
- MySource:Walke434/Robert Walker Land Records in Pennsylvania and Virginia
Related
- The Early Walker Settlers of Central Pennsylvania
- YDNA Walker Group 33
Overview
Often Confused With:
- John Walker of Blount, Tennessee Unrelated John Walker, similar age in Cumberland, PA. Also had a spouse named Mary.
John Walker, son of Robert Walker is often confused with another John Walker who died in Blount County, Tennessee. However, this John is part of a genetically unrelated family. These two distinct men both served in the Revolutionary War under different commanders. Confusingly, both men also had a wife named Mary. Genetics and primary records indicate that John first settled in West Pennsboro, Cumberland, Pennnsylvania alongside with his father Robert. Around 1773 he moved with his family around Fort Loudon, Franklin, Pennsylvania where he worked as a blacksmith. John also served in the Revolutionary War with his brothers James and Samuel.[1]. He served under James Patton. The other John Walker who served under John Morrow was a distinct, unrelated man. He had another move in 1787 to Shirely Township, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. Finally in the late 1790's he moved to the Chenoweth Creek Area of Louisville, Kentucky. While land transactions exist for the first three moves including the acquistion of land in Shirley Township[2], there is no record of his sold land in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. This suggests that an older child may have stayed back in Huntingdon when John moved to Louisville and kept the land. He moved between these regions with a group of neighbors that can be found both around his residences in Pennsylvania and Kentucky:
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- 1772 West Pennsboro Township Tax List:[3]
- John Walker
- Samuel Reaugh (father of John Reaugh)
- 1780 Peters Township Tax List:[4]
- John Walker
- Samuel Ireland
- 1789 Shirely Township Tax List:[5]
- John Walker
- James Linn (father of Samuel Linn)
- Samuel Ireland (father of Alexander Ireland)
- John Reaugh
- 1810 Jefferson County Census (same page)[6]
- John Walker
- Samuel Lynn
- James Lynn
- 1801 Jefferson County Tax List[7]
- John Walker, Chenoweth Run
- Samuel Ireland
- 1810 Jefferson County Tax List[8]
- Samuel Linn (Cedar Creek, right next to Chenoweth Run)
- James Linn
- Alexander Ireland (Cedar Creek)
- John Reaugh
John died after 1820 with no existing probate record. He had at least two wives with one dying in 1778[9]. One of his wives' names was Mary according to land records.
He had at least four recorded children in Pennsylvania:
- Baptism 2 April 1775 Unnamed Child, father John Walker[10]
- Baptism 2 Sep 1781 Samuel Walker, father John[11]
- Baptism 20 May 1780 Jane Walker, father John[12]
- Baptism 1783 Sarah Walker, father John[13]
Marriage records indicate additional children:
- Margaret[14]
- Nancy[15][16]
- Mary[17][18]
He likely had additional children. This list is not completely verfied, but here are other probable children:
- William Walker (found on Mary's marriage record)
- James Walker (found on ? marriage record)
- Adam Russell Walker (originated from Louisville, Kentucky. YDNA (Walker Group 33) matches this line of Walkers. His middle name Russell likely comes from Constantine Russell, a neighbor of John Walker in the 1820 census[19]
- An additional child who had John M. Walker in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. This man also matches into YDNA Walker Group 33. It is likely an older child (probably named Robert or John) stayed back in Huntingdon, PA.
Land Deed Transcriptions
- Cumberland County, PA:
- Book D page 14:
- John Walker of West Pennsborough, Application Number 3665 on May 7 1767,
- "Walker's Lot" on Yellow Breeches Creek by David Reed's land, Samuel Brice's land,
- Robert Walker Snr father of foresaid John, 119 unto Robert Walker the elder,
- Patent book A Vol B Page 476, land to Michael Keinat ... Robert Walker Snr and Jane his wife
- Witnesses:
- Jacob Sector?
- George Stevenson
- Signed John Walker
- 6 April 1774
- Book F Page 371:
- John Walker, Peters Township to Samuel Woodbridge...John Walker
- and Mary his wife...land on side of Connagogague Creek...
- Witnesses:
- John Cunningham
- Enoch James
- Signed
- John Walker
- 8 April 1782
- Franklin County, PA:
- Book 1 Page 552
- 8 November 1787
- John Walker, Peter's Township Blacksmith and Mary his wife and William Withow of Hamilton Township
- Witnesses
- John Anderson
- James Glen
- Signed
- John Walker
- Mary Walker
- From Lapella's file:
- A notice published December 12, 1787th issue of the Carlisle Gazette reads,"Whereas the subscriber, John Walker of Peters Township, Franklin Township, having purchased tract of land of John Johnston of Sherly Township (now Huntingdon :County) gave bonds for payment. Does hereby forewarn persons against taking assignment of 4 of said bonds, as he is determined not to pay said bonds until Johnston shall make good his contract".
Notes
- ↑ Page 218 Fendrick, Virginia Shannon.. American Revolutionary soldiers of Franklin County, Pennnsylvania [sic]. Chambersburg, Pa.: Historical Works Committee of the Franklin County Chapter, c1944. Accessible here
- ↑ Page 61 Volume C. Bedford County Land Deeds (Huntingdon was once part of Bedford County) here
- ↑ Cumberland County Archives. Tax Rate Book 005. here
- ↑ Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission; Records of the Office of the Comptroller General, RG-4; Tax & Exoneration Lists, 1762-1794; Microfilm Roll: 324 [1] and here
- ↑ Shirley Township. Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, U.S., Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Original data: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. here
- ↑ Year: 1810; Census Place: Jefferson, Kentucky; Roll: 7; Page: 5; Image: 00012; Family History Library Film: 0181352 here
- ↑ Frankfort, Kentucky : Kentucky State Historical Society, 1952-1953, 1957-1958, 1999 Frankfort, Kentucky : Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, here and here
- ↑ Frankfort, Kentucky : Kentucky State Historical Society, 1952-1953, 1957-1958, 1999 Frankfort, Kentucky : Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, here and here and here
- ↑ Mrs. John Walker, Death. Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records. The Presbyterian Church of The Upper West Conogogheaue here
- ↑ Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records. The Presbyterian Church of The Upper West Conogogheaue here
- ↑ Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records. The Presbyterian Church of The Upper West Conogogheauehere
- ↑ Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records. The Presbyterian Church of The Upper West Conogogheaue here
- ↑ Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records. The Presbyterian Church of The Upper West Conogogheaue here
- ↑ 1811. County Marriage Records, 1783-1965 Marriage Records. Kentucky Marriages. Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky. here
- ↑ Page 92 April 1817. Kentucky, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1783-1965. Marriage Records. Kentucky Marriages. Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky. here
- ↑ Kentucky, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1783-1965 Marriage Records. Kentucky Marriages. Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky. here
- ↑ Page 101. 1819. Kentucky, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1783-1965 Marriage Records. Kentucky Marriages. Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky. here
- ↑ Kentucky, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1783-1965 Marriage Records. Kentucky Marriages. Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky. here
- ↑ 1820 U S Census; Census Place: Jefferson, Kentucky; Page: 48; NARA Roll: M33_24; Image: 60 here
- ↑ >PA Archive Land Survey Book C220 Page 287. here
- ↑ Based on USGS Topographic Map. Compiled from Land Warrants and Surveys. See also maps from "First Families of Cumberland County", Hayes R. Eschenmann and Paul Barner, Cumberland County Historical Society. They can be obtained from the society here:
- ↑ Based on USGS Topographic Map. Compiled from Land Warrants and Surveys. See also maps from "First Families of Cumberland County", Hayes R. Eschenmann and Paul Barner, Cumberland County Historical Society. They can be obtained from the society here:
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