Isaac Walker

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ISAAC WALKER (1707–1782), son of Isaac Walker and Margery Bruce

SARAH BREED (b. prob. 1706/14–aft. 1764)

Isaac, the son of Isaac and Margery (Bruce) Walker, was born on 12 July 1707 in Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. [1] Isaac, Jr. died in Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire on 1 September 1782 after a long illness, and on the same day as his friend and distant relative Reverend Timothy Walker. [2] Isaac Walker of Woburn married Sarah Breed of Woburn on 16 March 1731. [1]

The identity of Sarah Breed is unknown. If she had her last child in 1749, she was probably not born much before 1706. If she had her first child in 1732 she was probably not born much later than 1714. It is possible that she was a widow.

Rumford was renamed Concord in 1765, after the resolution of an acrimonious border dispute with Bow.

Isaac, Jr. was appointed a hog reeve in Rumford on 9 March 1735/6 and on 2 March 1740/1. He was chosen a tythingman on 31 Mar 1742. [2]

Reverend Timothy Walker had a garrison in Rumford. Small temporary houses were built within the walls of the garrison. Isaac Walker, Jr.'s family was one of seven assigned to this garrison on 15 May 1746. [3]

On Sunday, 5 August 1764, Reverend Timothy Walker wrote in his diary that he, "Propounded Isaac Walker, Jr. and wife to own ye covenant." [3]

Children of Isaac Walker and Sarah Breed: Births of all but the first recorded in Rumford, Merrimack County, New Hampshire as the children of Isaac, Jr. and Sarah. [4]

i. Joseph Walker was born on 4 April 1732 in Woburn. [1] He married Mary Abbott.

ii. Ezekiel Walker was born on 14 August 1734. He died on 8 December 1734 in Rumford. [4]

i. Ezekiel Walker was born on 22 September 1735.

ii. Sarah Walker was born on 2 September 1737.

iii. James Walker was born on 2 September 1739. He died on 9 February 1821 in Concord, Merrimack County. He married Ruth Abbott.

iv. Isaac Walker was born on 26 October 1741. He married Sarah Unknown. [2]

v. Samuel Walker was born on 24 May 1745.

vi. Ann Walker was born on 16 July 1747.

vii. Ruth Walker was born on 14 October 1749.

Endnotes:

1. Edward Francis Johnson, Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, Part 1 (births), Part 2, (deaths) Part 3 (marriages) (Woburn: Andrew Cutlery & Co., 1890), 1: 267–70; vol. 3: 291–3.

2. Nathaniel Bouton, History of Concord (Concord, NH: Benning W. Sanborn, 1856).

3. Joseph B. Walker, editor and annotator, Diaries of Rev. Timothy Walker (Concord: NH: Ira C. Evans, 1889).

4. "New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, 1654–1969," database with images, AmericanAncestors (https://www.americanancestors.org) > Births W to 1901: Ann Walker, p. 4077, Ezekiel Walker, p. 4259, Ezekiel Walker, p. 4260, Hannah Walker, p. 4322, Isaac Walker, p. 4369, James Walker, p. 4380, Ruth Walker, p. 4648, Samuel Walker, p. 4658, Sarah Walker, p. 4671; > Deaths W to 1901: Ezekiel Walker, p. 903.

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