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About James Walker
James Walker, who emigrated from Ayre in Scotland to Maryland, fourteen years after his brother, Thomas had come to Jamestown in Virginia. James came with Leonard Calvert, the brother of Lord Baltimore, with the first emigrants to Maryland. They bought an Indian village, and occupied the huts the Indians had built, thus establishing the first colony in Maryland, which they called St. Mary. The territorial line was disputed between Maryland and Virginia, and Governor Calvert appointed James Walker as Commander of the Maryland Militia to eject the Virginians from territory claimed by Maryland. Because this was done so satisfactorily, Lord Baltimore granted to James Walker large holdings of land on the Eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay in what was afterwards known as Somerset County, Maryland. Here the descendents of James Walker remained until after the Revolutionary War. They mostly appear to have been shrewd traders, and got possession of much land.
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James Walker's Timeline
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1603
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| 1630 |
September 13, 1630
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Ayre, Scotland
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May 3, 1632
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January 18, 1635
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June 7, 1638
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Somerset Co., Maryland
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1660
Age 57
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