Samuel Walker

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Samuel, son of Captain Richard Walker, was born in England. His age is given as sixty-nine years when he died, November 6, 1684; he deposed April 2, 1666, that he was forty-four years old.

He moved from Lynn to Reading, then to Woburn. He was a proprietor of Reading in 1643 with his father and brother Richard. He was admitted to the church at Woburn about 1650 with his wife. He was highway surveyor there in 1662. He was a malster by trade, and was the third man to keep a tavern at Woburn, being licensed for that purpose, April, 1662. His sons, Samuel and Joseph, were administrators of his estate.

Children:
Samuel, born September 23, 1643;
Joseph, born March 10, 1645;
Hannah, April 11, 1647. died April 28, 1648;
Israel, June 28, 1648;
Hannah, twin of Israel;
John, February 14, 1650;
Benjamin, June 4, 1652, died April 26, 1653;
Isaac;
Ezekiel.

Samuel married Anne Sheldon Abt 1642, Woburn, Middlesex, MA, USA. Anne (daughter of Godfrey Sheldon and Alice Frost) was born Abt 1630, Woburn, Middlesex, MA, USA; died 21 Mar 1716. [Group Sheet]

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Anne was his second wife.

Torrey (New England Marriages Prior to 1700) records that he had a first wife, but does not know her name:
WALKER, Samuel (?1617-1684) (ae 44 in 1661) & 1/wf _____ _____; Reading/Woburn

1. Samuel Walker was born 7 May 1643, Reading, Middlesex, MA, USA; died 18 Jan 1703, Woburn, Middlesex, MA, USA; was buried 1703, First Burial Ground: Woburn, Middlesex, MA. USA.

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Captain Richard Walker, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England in 1590. He came to New England in 1630, and settled at Lynn, Massachusetts. He was admitted a freeman, March 5, 1633-34, and was ensign in the Lynn militia company in 1630, later lieutenant and captain. In 1638 he was a member of the Artillery Company of Boston. He was deputy to the general court; was surety for Howes of Mattacheeset in 1638. He removed to Reading, Massachusetts, where he was a proprietor in 1644 and later a town officer.

Captain Walker married (first) Jane, daughter of Thomas Talmage, of Newton Stacey; (second) Sarah (???). He died May, 1687, and was buried May 16, aged ninety-five years. Administration was granted June 19, 1687, to his widow Sarah, who died December 1, 1695. He had a long, useful and active career.

Richard — Jane Talmage. [Group Sheet]

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