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About George Walton
George Walton arrived in Boston about 1635 during the Great Puritan Migration. Being a Quaker, he soon left Massachusetts for a more friendly climate in NH where he became a wealthy landowner and local businessman. He married Alice (??) in Exeter, NH in 1642.Over the next four decades they made their home on Great Island, NH. Over the years, there was some local jealousy about this wealthy Quaker landowner who hired natives. In one heated land dispute, they stakes were risen by accusations of witchcraft and wizardry. In 1682, a poltergeist like precursor to Salem (1692) took place on the island. Apparently, eye witness reports of "stone-throwing devils" just about took over the inn and store that summer with all sorts of unexplained objects flying through the air randomly. Reports of this incident were published in England by 1698. George died in1686 shortly after his wife Alice having lived a full life. Alices' origins are disputed.
References
- https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Samuel_Treworgy_%281%29
- Davis, Walter Goodwin. The ancestry of Lydia Harmon, 1755-1836, wife of Joseph Waterhouse of Standish, Maine. (Boston, Massachusetts: Stanhope, 1924 ) 84.m Dorcas Walton, d/o George and Alice Walton, deposition in 1666, m. Samuel Treworgy. [No age or birth given, so apparently none in deposition? But certainly b. bef. 1648 to be of age to testify.]
George and Alice Walton were Prominent. Portsmouth Quakers
Their son George Jr was. part of Nicholas Shapleigh's Bark Trial
Nicholas Shapleighs was accused of being a Quaker several times.
Record details
Name George Walton
Comment ordinary keeper, vintner, tailor, before Gen. Court at Boston 4 (10) 1638. Rem. to Exeter; signed the combination 5 (4) 1639.
Bought land on Great Island of John Hord 1 March, 1649; acknowledged in 1655.
Taxed at Dover in 1648. Assessed for wine sold in his ordinary.
Had land assigned to him at Portsmouth in 1652. Rem. to Kittery.
Bought land in Back Cove 16 Aug. 1659; Abishag* Walton a witness.
Rem. to Portsmouth. Sold his houses and lands to Henry Robie 1 Aug. 1662.
Was licensed 14 Oct. 1662, to keep the ordinary upon the great island in Pascattoquack river. [Norf. rec.] Suffered from "Stone-throwing" imposters. [Magnalia.]
A child of his was found drowned in 1657. [Inquest]./PP
He made his will Feb. 14, 1685, proved March 9 following.
To present wife Alice; to son Sidrach Walton; to Sam: Walton; to Alice and Priscilla Taprell each 8 acres of land; to Grace Taprell the house her mother died in;
to Thomas and Walton Roby and Elizabeth Treworgy./Ptfn ref='*'The occurrence of this name "Abishag Walton" leads us to compare this man George Walton with "Alexander Waldren" (Walden, Waldron), a "sojourner on the Great Island near piscataqua River," who, in his will dated 7 June, 1676, proved 27th same month beq. to bros. Isaac, of Boston,
William, George, Edward ("in the kingdom of Old England"); to Joan Barker of Coventry, Eng.; and his house and land at Boston to "Abisha, wife of Robert Taperell mariner during her life"; he also gave her two gold rings, and to her daughter Alice Taprill 10 pounds.
Have we here George Walton, Sen. and his brothers and sister? Names were so confused in those days!/tfn"John Walton","brought suit against George Walton in 1651, for cutting timber on his land
. Had land assigned him at Portsmouth in 1652./PPSee Bulgar, Disher, Hilton, Taperill, Towle, West."
Maine Pioneers, 1623-60
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George Walton's Timeline
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1615
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Lincolnshire, England (United Kingdom)
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1640
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Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States
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1642
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1644
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Great Island, Province of New Hampshire, America
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1646
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Newcastle, Rockingham, New Hampshire
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1649
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Exeter, Province of New Hampshire, America
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1658
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New Castle, Rockingham, New Hampshire
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| 1686 |
February 20, 1686
Age 71
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New Castle, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, British Colonial America
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