Joseph Walker

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No middle names were allowed at this time in the British Isles

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Life Sketch

• HELP! * SOURCES NEEDED FOR PARENTS. * MAJOR QUESTIONS ABOUT SURNAME OF HIS SPOUSE. *

Walker was an early immigrant and proprietor in colonial Portsmouth, NH [1]. He married a woman named Hannah, owned land along Sagamore Creek [2], raised 4 children (Mary, George, Samuel, & Francis), and died without a will in NH on 7 Nov 1683 [3]. Things get murkier from there.

I. WALKER'S WIFE is known to be named Hannah, but there are no sources currently attached to this entry that identify his wife's surname. Although her surname is frequently given as PHILBRICK, many sources put this ID in doubt.

a. HANNAH PHILBRICK

Sources identify 2 Hannah Philbricks; additional primary sources are needed to determine whether one is incorrect:

Hannah Philbrick (b about 1626, St Mary's, Bures; d 18 Jan 1696, Hampton, NH) married Philip Lewis about 1650 [4].

Another Hannah, daughter of John Philbrook and his wife Ann, was born 26 Sept 1651. The "Genealogy of the Philbrick and Philbrook Families" says she married first Joseph Walker of Portsmouth, then John Seavey on 29 July 1686, but this is clearly inconsistent with children born 1625-45 [5].

b. HANNAH MOSES

"From Castles to America" identifies Joseph Walker's wife as Hannah Moses, giving her birth in England, 1602, and her death in 1682 in Portsmouth [6]. On 1 March 1664, Walker granted land in Portsmouth to John Moses, who's been identified as his brother-in-law [7].

II. CHILDREN of Joseph and Hannah Walker:

1. Mary - b 1625, NH; d July 29, 1688, Piscataway, NJ; married Francis Drake. 2. George - b 1638, Portsmouth; d Portsmouth. 3. Samuel - b 1642, Portsmouth; d 16 Sept 1704, Piscataway, NJ. 4. Francis - b about 1645 in Middleton, Essex, Mass; d before 1702 in Woodbridge, NJ.

If Walker's children were born across a 20-year period, then 2 wives seems likely.

III. WALKER'S PARENTS are frequently given as William Walker and Isabel Wood, but there are NO SOURCES documenting this, and the profile was linked to other "parents," also without sources. Help finding reliable sources appreciated [8].

-- SOURCES --

1. "New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635, Vol. 1," by Robert Charles Anderson (1999): p. 229. (Source attached.)

2. Joseph Walker in L'Hommedieu Index, by Patia Havens L'Hommedieu, Vol. II, (1951), pp. 897-898. (Source attached.)

3. Joseph Walker. www.wikitree.com/wiki/Walker-549

4. Hannah Philbrick (identified by Wikitree as the wife of Phillip Lewis). www.wikitree.com/wiki/Philbrick-30

5. "A Genealogy of the Philbrick and Philbrook Families," by Jacob Chapman (1886): p 11.

6. Hannah Moses (1602-82) in "From Castles to America." https://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/from-castles-to-america/I20511.php

7. Hannah Moses (identified by Wikitree as Walker's wife). wikitree.com/wiki/Moses-47

8. Remember that reliable sources are primary sources (birth, marriage, wills, etc.) or published secondary sources based on primary sources (histories, genealogies). Ancestry & GEDCOM aren't reliable, since users don't cite their sources, and Find-a-Grave is rarely reliable, since volunteers rarely cite their sources, and it's almost impossible to get Find-a-Grave errors corrected.

Here's a handy hyperlinked list of Reliable Sources for 17th-century New England:

www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Puritan_Great_Migration_Project_Reliable_Sources

GEDCOM Note

!Velma Daley's family records in Marion

!Velma Daley's family records in Marion Daley's possession.

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From Monnette, "First Settlers of Ye Ol

From Monnette, "First Settlers of Ye Old Plantations" pg 76 5: "Joseph Walker was in Portsmouth, N.H. by 1660. He was grantor in a deed dated March 1, 1664, and the grante e of the deed was John Moses, his father-in-law. The deed i ncluded land at Portsmouth. Subsequently, he owned land in Greenland, Ports mouth, N.H. which is the same locality from which Captain F rancis Drake and his wife Mary came to Piscataway." "by the Office of Secretary of State, Concord, NH:" "Walker, Samuel, Province of New Hampshire, to George Walke r of said Province, Farmer, Greeting: Whereas Samuel Walker , brother of said George Walker, formerly of said province , decd., dyed intestate, ...said Province does by these pre sents committ unto you full power to administer all and sin gular the goods of the said Dec'd, lying and being in the P rovince of the aforesaid." (Dated) Jan A.D. 1705. signed by Joseph Smith. (New Hampshire Probate Records, Vol. 4, pg 285.) "Samuel Walker of Piscataway, having died September 16, 170 4 was eligible to have been the Samuel Walker, brother of G eorge Walker, formerly of said Province of New Hampshire. T his supports the idea that Samuel Walker of Boston and Pisc ataway was originally from New Hampshire and in some way re lated to Captain Francis Drake, and strongly points to th e probablility that the maiden name of Mary, the wife of Ca ptain Francis Drake, was Mary Walker. " These documents establish the children of Joseph Walker an d his first wife, the daughter of John Moses as: Samuel, George, Mary , and (probably) William. : An inventory of Joseph Walker's estate shows that he die d November 7, 1683. Hannah Walker (widow) and son George Wa lker were appointed Administrators