James Walker, Jr

• Son of James Walker and Elizabeth Walker (Phillips)
• Birth: 1645 in Taunton, (Present Bristol County), Plymouth Colony (Present Massachusetts)
• Death: June 22, 1718 in Taunton, Bristol County, Province of Massachusetts
• Place of Burial: Walker-Blake Graveyard, Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States
• James Walker, Jr. Find A Grave Memorial
• In his will proved September 1, 1718, bequests are made to his wife, six sons and five daughters. To James - 50 acres where he lives. Nathan, land in Taunton, So. Purchase, David, two lower lots in Dighton, where he lives,

Nehemiah, my new dwelling house and barn in Taunton, and land, and my land over the creek, and 50 acres lying on the Three Mile River, at a place called the narrow passage. Josiah, three upper lots in Dighton. James and Bathsheba are buried in the Walker/Blake Cemetery on the property of B. F. Cleary Generating Station.

Married

• Married: Capt James Walker III on 23 December 1673 in Taunton, Bristol, Plymouth, British Colonial America

Memorial of the Walkers of the Old Plymouth Colony

JAMES,° (10) b. 1645-6, d. June 22, 1718, ae. 72 yrs. He married December 23, 1673, Bathsheba Brooks, daughter of Gilbert, of Rehoboth. She was b. 1655, and d. Feb. 24, 1738, in 85th yr. (Ins.) Will was proved, April, 17, 1739. He was constable in T. in 1689, and admitted to freedom in 1689. He had 50 acres of land laid out for him, near Wm. Hacks' line. The lot began at So. Purchase line, and run north, 2 points. (Prop. Rec.) In 1697, there was a graunt to him of *50 acres on the west syde of Three Mile river, below the brook that runs into it, below John Hodges' lot." He lived at the Weir, in Taunton, where Col. Israel Dean, late of T., lived, and where the road from the Weir, to Dighton, leaves the river and turns west, towards the Presbrey brook. It is conjectured, that the following graunt refers to this James,because the father would have been called Mr. James Walker. " Libertie is graunted by the Court, vnto James Walker, of Taunton, to keep an ordinary att Taunton, and for that end, that hee be prouided of all necessaries for that purpose, and that he keep good order in his house, that, soe no damage may acrew vnto any, respecting the pmises. 1679, Plym. Col. Rec. vol. 6, 15th p. In his will, proved Sept. 1, 1718, bequests are made to wife, 6 sons and 5 daus. These indicate the places where the sons lived, viz.: "'To James, eldest son, 50 acres, where he lives. To 2d son, Nathan, land in Taunton, So. Purchase. To 3d son, Darid, 2 lower lotts, in Dighton, where he now dwells. To 4th son, Nehemiah, my new dwelling house, in T., and my home lott, and barn thereon, and my lott lying by Jas. Burt's, in T., and my land over the Creek, and 50 acres lying on the three mile river, at a place called the narrow passage. To 5th son, Josiah, 3 upper lotts, in Dighton. Faesimile of his autograph of 1690.

Sources

• Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of N.E. by Savage, Volume 4, pages 254, 393-394; N.E. Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 13, page 254; Manuscript - Old Colony Historical Society Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts. Researched by Gertrude Clifton Pierce Nelson. !
• Records of Plymouth Colony: Births, Marriages, Deaths, Burials, and Other Records, 1633-1689, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Editor, Records of Plymouth Colony: Births, Marriages, Deaths, Burials, and Other Records, 1633-1689 (The Press of William White; Boston; 1857;), Page 55.
• Genealogical and Biographical Sketches of James, of Taunton; Philip, of Rehoboth; William of Eastham; John, of Marshfield; Thomas, of Bristol; and of Their Descendants from 1620 to 1860 - https://books.google.com/books?id=zvAUAAAAYAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redi...