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About George Walton
Biography
The Wentworth genealogy: English and American, Volume 1 (Google eBook)
John Wentworth Little, Brown & co., 1878 pg 187 George3 Walton, son of Col. Shadrach3 Walton as above, married Frances, daughter of Gov. Samuel Allen. He lived in Newington, N. H., where one of his sales of land was, 22 February 1718-19, of a field "which field is called Hall's field, and was once Henry Langstar's," bounded "easterly on ye highway ye leads from ye meeting-house to ye ferry." Tate says, "Mr. George Walton, of Newington, Dy'd Wed. Dec. 13, 1769." His Will was dated 24 September 1764.
George Walton kept a public-house in Newcastle in 1706. By 1715 he was "late of New Castle now of Newington." He took the bankrupt's oath in 1717, but seems to have recovered financially very rapidly and became prominent in the affiars of the town. He was elected town clerk in 1717 and again in 1740. He was Newington's representative at the New Hampshire General Court from 1730 to 1741/42 and was appointed a justice of the peace in 1745/6. In 1756 he deeded to his son George Walton of Portsmouth the estate of one hundred and twenty acres in Newcastle "given me by my Grand Father Mr. George Walton at the death of my hon. Father Col. Shadach Walton who lived and died upon the same."
His will, probated March 28, 1770, mentions his wife Frances and daughter Elizabeth, "wife of Mr. William Hight, merchant."
From: Walton, in Davis, Walter Goodwin. The ancestry of Lydia Harmon, 1755-1836, wife of Joseph Waterhouse of Standish, Maine. (Boston, Massachusetts: Stanhope, 1924 ), 88.
George. He m. Frances Allen, daughter of Samuel Allen, Esq., Governor of New Hampshire (1692-1699), about the year 1702. A warrant was issued for her arrest on April 12, 1703, for having a child six months after marriage, but she was pardoned and the penalty remitted.* Walton kept a public-house in Newcastle in 1706. In 1715/6 he was “late of New Castle now of Newington.” He took the bankrupt’s oath in 1717. He seems to have recovered financially, however, and rapidly became prominent in the affairs of the town. He was elected town clerk in 1717 and again in 1740, and he was Newington’s representative at the New Hampshire General Court from 1730 to 1741/2. He was appointed a justice of the peace in 1745/6. In 1756 he deeded to his son George Walton of Portsmouth the estate of one hundred and twenty acres in Newcastle “given me by my Grand Father Mr. George Walton after the death of my hon<i Father Coll“ Shadach Walton who lived and died upon the same.”t “Wed. Dec. 13, 1769. Mr. George Walton of Newington Dy’d.”t The will of George Walton, Esq., of Newington, dated Sept. 24, 1764, and probated March 28, 1770, mentions his wife Frances, sons John Walton of Newington, George Walton of Portsmouth, Shadrach Walton of Durham and Samuel Walton of Somersworth, deceased, and his daughters Frances Walton, deceased, and Elizabeth, wife of Mr. William Hight, merchant.
Children
- John. His father left him his Newington estate, but, if the manuscript list of Governor Allen’s children and grandchildren II is correct, he did not survive his mother.
- Samuel. He was a shopkeeper in Somersworth in 1739/40, when his grandfather Col. Walton conveyed to him a marsh lot originally granted to “my father Mr. George Walton 18 4th mo. 1648.” He m. Elizabeth Pray, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Grant) Pray of York, May 26, 1727, in Newington. His will, dated Oct. 25 1753, and probated Jan. 30, 1754, mentions his sons Allen, George, Samuel, John, Shadrach and Benjamin, and his daughters Jane Downs, Elizabeth Walton and Frances Walton.** Samuel Walton, Jr., who was a mariner of Portsmouth, and who m. a daughter of Joseph Moses, was drowned with his wife, his sister, and his brother-in-law, Hunking Moses, near Dover Point on Oct. 30, 1762.
- George. He was a tanner and a shopkeeper at Portsmouth. He m. Temperance (Bickford) Underwood, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Bassum) Bickford, step-daughter of Hon. Jotham Odiorne, and widow of John Underwood of Newcastle. In 1759 Mrs. Walton “formerly Underwood” mentions her grandfather Mr. John Bickford in acknowledging a deed from John Underwood to Joseph Hicks conveying one hundred acres in Dover, given by John Bickford, Sr., to his son Benjamin.* George Walton sold his ancestral estate at Newcastle to Thomas Bell, Esq. on March 21, 1766, for £500. t He had at least one son, George Walton, Jr.
- Shadrach. He was a joiner at Durham in 1744
- Frances, bapt. at Newington Jan. 22, 1715/6; d. before 1764.
- Elizabeth. She m. Mr. William Hight of Berwick. (See Hoyt.)
Sources
- The Wentworth genealogy: English and American, Volume 1 (Google eBook) John Wentworth Little, Brown & co., 1878 pg 187
- "Ancestry of Lydia Harmon " in Massachusetts and Maine Families 88
- Mentioned in Provincial Papers Volume 6 Mentions wife Frances, sons John Walton of Newington, George Walton of Portsmouth, Shadrach Walton of Durham and Samuel Walton of Somerset, deceased, and his daughters Frances Walton, deceased, and Elizabeth, wife of Mr. William Hight, merchant.
- New Hampshire Gazette, 1769 George Walton, in his 89th year, died in Newington, N. H., Dec 13, 1769.
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George Walton's Timeline
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New Hampshire, British Colonial America
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Newington, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States
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December 24, 1702
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December 13, 1769
Age 89
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British Colonial America
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