Isaac Walker

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ISAAC WALKER (1667–aft. 1745), son of Samuel Walker and Ann Sheldon

MARGERY BRUCE (1684–aft. 1764), daughter of George Bruce and Elizabeth Clark

Isaac, the son of Samuel and Ann (Sheldon) (Alger) Walker, was born on 1 November 1667 in Woburn. [1][2] He died after 1745 in Concord, New Hampshire. [2] Isaac Walker of Woburn married Margery Bruce of Woburn on 20 February 1704 in Woburn. [1][2]

Margery, the daughter of George and Elizabeth (Clark) Bruce, was born on 24 April 1684 in Woburn. [1]

On Sunday 18 March 1764, Isaac's distant relative, Reverend Timothy Walker, the first and only minister of Rumford, wrote in his diary, "In ye evening visited old Aunt Walker being very bad." The editor of his diary identifies Aunt Walker as Margery Bruce Walker, the wife or widow of Isaac Walker. [3]

Isaac moved to Concord, New Hampshire. [4, p. 6]

Isaac is on a 5 Feb 1725 list of men who had paid 20 shillings and were admitted as settlers in Penacook, later Concord. [5, p. 67–8] The new plantation was to be split into 103 lots and Isaac drew the lots N. 28 and 33 in the second range at a 7-8 Feb 1726 meeting in Andover. [5, p. 77] He received two 2-1/2 acre lots in the second division of land that had been surveyed in May 1727: lot 21 on the lowest interval on the east side of the Merrimack river and lot 8 at the "Frog Ponds". [5, pp. 126–7] By Oct 1731 Isaac had a house up in Concord and he had 12 acres that were fenced, mowed and plowed. His house was not yet inhabited and he was living in a house owned by Zerobbabel Snow. He was one of ten subscribers of Penny Cook who called for a meeting there on 2 Nov 1732. [5, p. 109] He was one of ten subscribers of Penny Cook who called for a meeting there on 2 Nov 1732. [5, p. 109]

In 1746 Isaac Walker and his son William were in a garrison around the house of Timothy Walker, Jr. [5, p. 156] Timothy, Jr. was Isaac's son Timothy. [6]

Children of Isaac Walker and Margery Bruce: Recorded in Woburn as the children of Isaac and Margery. [1]

i. Abigail Walker was born on 23 July 1705. She married David Evans of Charlestown on 22 September 1729 in Woburn. [1]

ii. Isaac Walker was born on 12 July 1707. He died on 1 September 1782 in Concord, New Hampshire. He married Sarah Breed.

iii. Ezekiel Walker was born on 29 May 1709. He married Sarah Wyman of Woburn on 6 July 1732 in Woburn. [1] Sarah was the daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Winn) Wyman of Woburn. [4, p. 6]

iv. Timothy Walker was born on 17 March 1711. He married Martha Colby on 5 December 1738 in Amesbury. [7][8, intention published on 8 October 1738 in Rumford] Martha, the daughter of Abraham and Sarah (Buckman) Colby and granddaughter of Isaac Colby, was born on 17 September 1719 in Amesbury. [7][9]

Timothy lived in Concord. [4] He had a garrison there in 1746. [6] He was referred to as Timothy Walker, Jr. to distinguish him from the Reverend Timothy Walker.

v. Anne Walker was born on 16 March 1713. She married Lot Colby after 9 September 1738 when they published their intention in Rumford (now Concord). [8, both of Rumford] Lot was probably the brother of Anne's brother Timothy's wife Martha, born on 17 September 1719 in Amesbury. [9]

vi. William Walker was born on 31 May 1715. William married Elizabeth Peters [5, p. 689, Elizabeth Unknown] after 10 May 1738, when they published their intention in Rumford (now Concord). [8, both of Rumford]

vii. Elizabeth Walker was born on 1 January 1718. She married Joseph Walker, Jr. of Billerica on 4 December 1739 in Woburn. [1][4, p. 6] Joseph, the son of Joseph and Hannah Walker, was born on 21 August 1714 in Billerica. [10]

viii. Mary Walker was born on 29 May 1720. She married Zebadiah Farnum of Concord.

Zebadiah and Mary's son Samuel married Sarah Abbott.

ix. Samuel Walker was born on 10 August 1723.

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: 31 (Margery's birth), 267–8 (Walker births); 3: 36 (Margery's parents' marriage), 267–8 (Walker marriages).

2. Eugene Allen Walker, "The Whereabouts of Samuel Walker of Reading and Woburn, Massachusetts, Prior to His Arrival at Reading in 1644," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 177 (2023): 119–25.

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

4. Loring, Arthur G. and William R. Cutter, Samuel Walker of Woburn, Mass. and Some of His Descendants (Boston: David Clapp & Son, 1903).

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

6. D. Hamilton Hurd, History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire (Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co., 1885), 62.

7. Frederick Lewis Weis, The Colby Family in Early America (Concord: Colonial Press, 1970), 29.

8. John C Ordway., "Publishments and Marriages in the town of Rumford (now Concord), New Hampshire, 1732 - 39," Granite Monthly 33 (1902): 38–40.

9. Vital Records of Amesbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield: Topsfield Historical Society, 1913), 62–3.

10. Vital records of Billerica, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1908), 195.

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