Person:Joseph Walker (11)

Watchers
Joseph Walker
 
m. Abt 1697
  1. Elizabeth Walker1695 - 1767
  2. Charles Walker1698 -
  3. Rebecca Walker1700 -
  4. Mary Walker1702 -
  5. Ruth Walker1704 -
  6. Ann Walker1708 -
  7. Crecy Walker1713 -
  8. Joseph Walker1715 -
  9. Rachel Walker1717 -
Facts and Events
Name Joseph Walker
Gender Male
Birth? 4 Dec 1715 Prince George's, Maryland, United States


At the Request of Joseph Walker the following Deposition was Recorded April the Twenty fifth Day 1741

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 Y p. 266 /abstracted by Anne Livingston mizliv@yahoo.com]