Ancestors

Samuel Walker

Samuel Walker, born in England about 1615 and brought to New England as a boy of fifteen in 1630. He lived first at Lynn, moved with Richard Walker, probably his brother, to Reading, where all his children were entered, and was in Woburn by February 1661/2. He was a maltster; the county court licensed him to still and retail strong waters in 1662 and to keep an ordinary in 1674, and he was selectman in 1668. He died at Woburn on 6 November 1684, in his sixty ninth or seventieth year. His second son Joseph went to Billerica.

His parents are unknown. Two nineteenth-century books made him a son of Captain Richard Walker of Lynn, the soldier buried there in 1687 and said by Lynn's annals to have been ninety five. Robert Charles Anderson's study of the 1633 immigrants found the captain's own depositions: aged about forty one in 1653 and "about sixty-five" in 1676. That puts the captain's birth about 1611, four years before Samuel's. Samuel cannot have been his son. The ninety five years came from the annals and fit nothing else. The two men were more probably brothers. No record names Samuel's father.

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Cite: Heirology, "Samuel Walker (1615-1684)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/samuel-walker-1615-1684-608628.