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From: "clarencewwalker" <>
Subject: [MAFRANKL] Things get curiouser and curiouser!
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:00:07 -0400


I have now located some of the military records of William Walker that fall
very much in line with your explanations. However, with these findings came
a real riddle.

The mystery of William Walker continues to grow!



I did find a pension record on HeritageQuest that showed New Lisbon, Otsego
as his permanent residence and Portland (Falmouth) as his place of birth,
but also listed Sudbury as his place of abode at the time he "mustered in".

NOTE: (Could hardly read the remainder of the record. Might this mean that
New Lisbon was his place of abode at the time of the record entry.as opposed
to when he actually entered the service?)

He was on the Crown Point Expedition and at Concord, Bunker Hill, and
Ticonderoga with Capt. Wheeler's Company and Col. Reed's Regiment. Now, for
my book, I want to learn more of what his units actually did.



This from the MASS archives (I have not seen nor do I have a copy)

"His pension record suggest the following:

-He was born in Falmouth (now Portland) in 1754.

-In 1774 (age 20), he was living in Sudbury, and he volunteered as a minute
man in Captain John Nixon's Company.

- On April 19, 1775, he marched to Concord and was in the battle. He
subsequently served at Cambridge for two weeks before being discharged and
returning home.

- In June 1775, he was called out on an alarm to reinforce the army during
the battle of Bunker Hill, but was not in the battle. He served a week
before returning home.

-In 1776, he volunteered into Captain Asahel Wheeler's Company of Colonel
Jonathan Reed's Regiment and served six months at Ticonderoga and Crown
Point before returning home to Sudbury.



After his service, he married and moved to Gill, Massachusetts.

"Vital Records of SUDBURY (Middlesex Co)MASS:

Marriage: STANHOPE: Elizabeth of Bolton, MASS, and William Walker,

May 29,1777, in Bolton. (Mass)

Births: Samuel Walker, son of William & Elisabeth, [born] 3 February 1779"

He is listed in GILL,MASS as late as the 1810 census.

Sometime between 1810 and 1820, he moved to New Lisbon in Ostego County, New
York, and appears on the 1820 census there.



>From the SAR Patriot Index:



William Walker

Birth: 17 Dec 1754 Portland, Cumberland Co. ME Death: 24 Oct 1844 New
Lisbon, Otsego Co. NY Father Micah Walker Mother Beulah Wooster

William's Wife Elizabeth Stanhope Birth 16 Jul 1758 Sudbury, Middesex Co. MA
Marriage 29 May 1777 Bolton, Worcester Co. MA to William Walker,

Elizabeth's Death 15 Oct 1843 New Lisbon, Otsego Co, NY



Two people have joined SAR on William Walker and the same two people have
also done an application on William's father Micah. Both mens'

applications on William went through his son Samuel.

Samuel Walker

Birth 3 Feb 1779 Gill, Franklin Co, MA

Marriage 13 Jun 1808 Gill, Franklin Co, MA to Martha Green Death 4 Mar 1869
Burlington, Otsego Co, NY.



William Walker is shown on the SAR Patriot index as serving as a private in
Massachusetts.



NOTE: IS this William's father?? Could Micah have married twice?? Did Micah
and Beulah have children??



Micah Walker

Birth 22 Jan 1727 Sudbury, Middlesex Co, MA Death 10 Feb 1823 Gray,
Cumberland Co, ME Wife Beulah Wooster Birth about 1732 Marriage 14 Jul 1750
Cumberland Co, ME to Micah Walker Death 29 May 1759 New Gloucester,
Cumberland Co, ME



The index shows Micah Walker serving as a captain in Massachusetts.



Frpm:

the New Gloucester town-recorded births,

"baptisms in the Congregational Church. There are no Walker families listed
at all in the town births! The baptism index has one Walker family: the
following children of Micah and Elizabeth Walker were baptized here-( NO
WILLIAM) Moody Walker, 1775; Elisabeth Walker, 1777; Micah and Samuel
Walker, twins, 1778("baptized at Bakerstown"); George Walker, 1781;
Alexander Shepard Walker, 1784; Robert, 1786(also "baptized at Bakerstown")

. ..the only thing that I found in our books with the name Beulah Walker was
a record of Marriage:

Beulah Walker of Gray to William Strickland of Turner Nov. 24, 1796.



QUESTION: Are there ANY primary source records of Micah being married to
Beulah Wooster and having a child William in 1754 in Portland (Falmouth) ME
OR of Micah and/or Beulah having lived in Portland I that period of 1754



PURPORTED Chronology:

Micah Walker: Birth 22 Jan 1727 Sudbury, Middlesex Co, MA

Micah Walker Marriage 14 Jul 1750 Cumberland Co, ME Beulah Wooster

William Born: 1754 Portland/Falmouth

Micah and Elizabeth baptize children in New Gloucester Maine 1775-----

Beulah Walker of Gray to William Strickland of Turner Nov. 24, 1796.



Are these the same people? ANY primary source record of William and Beulah
marriage, children's birth, baptism? IS there anything to indicate that
there was a William born to this Micah, and, if so, that is was our William?






Clarence W. Walker

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