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John Walker, of Roane Co., TN
Facts and Events
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Overview
This article concerns John Walker, son of Samuel Walker and Jane Patterson. Samuel's family is well documented in Source:White, 1902 [3] John was born 5 Oct 1755, and married Margaret Paul, August 1 1782 (White, 1902:180). The couple had 12 children
From:Pension Apppication of 1818
"... John Walker ... Sayeth that he Inlisted a Solder in Capt’n Mathew Arbuckels Company of Regulars Raised in Botetourt County Virginia for the Term of one year and was stationed at the mouth of the Great Kenaway and served the Term of Inlistment and was discharged by said Capt’n Arbuckel the 16th of October 1776 and the August following the 11th Day he Inlisted in a Reagement of horse Commanded by Colo. George Bailer [Baylor] in Capt’n Cadader Jen’s [Jones] Company Colo Bailer got wounded and Colo William Washington took command of the Reagement and he the said Walker served in said Reagement to the end of August 1780 when he was Discharged [Several words illegible] in Indigent circumstances and needs help from his Country and Deposited[?] his Discharge[?] with the Register of the land office of Virginia April 27th 1818 [signed] John Walker
Revolutionary War Pension Information
Information from “Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records”, Vol. 6, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :
- Walker, John - entered service Botetourt County, Virginia, in Virginia company; entered service 1777 in 3rd Virginia Regiment; served at Battles of Monmouth & Siege of Chareleton; received Pension age 64 in Roane County, Tennessee, 1818; wife Margaret died 8/1819; soldier resided 1821 there age 66 when all children were grown up; died 2/2/1830 leaving children: Audley P., Jane P., Margaret, Elizabeth M., Barbara, Nancy, Catharine wife of James Galloway, who all resided in Roane County, Tennessee, & John B, resided in Morgan County, Alabama. F-S48765, R2475.
Notes
From: Source:White, 1992B See: Notebook:Walker Family Tapistry
Person:John Walker (221), Continental and Virginia Line, BLW# 2230-100, soldier had enlisted in Botetourt Co VA, he applied April 27, 1818 in Roane Co.,TN in September 1819, soldier gave his age as 64, in 1821 soldier referred to his family as all grown up, one Samuel Walker made affidavit in 1819 in Knoxville TN that he saw soldier's discharge when he returned from Rev service, the jacket cover stated soldier's wife was Margaret ( no data on her).
Footnotes
- Graves, William T. Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters.
Application S48765, from Southern Campaigns Web Site]
State of Tennesee [sic] Roan [sic] County April 27th 1818
This Day personly appeared before me Robert White one of the Judges of the Supram Court of [word illegible] and Appeals of the State of Tenesee John Walker
and being Duly Sworn on the Holy Evangelical of Almighty God Deposeth and Sayeth that he Inlisted a Solder in Capt’n Mathew Arbuckels [sic: Arbuckle’s] Company of Regulars Raised in Botetourt County Virginia for the Term of one year and was stationed at the mouth of the Great Kenaway [sic: Kanawha River at Point Pleasant in present West Virginia] and served the Term of Inlistment and was discharged by said Capt’n Arbuckel the 16th of October 1776 and the August following the 11th Day he Inlisted in a Reagement of horse Commanded by Colo. George Bailer [sic: Baylor] in Capt’n Cadader Jen’s[sic: Cadwallader Jones’s] Company Colo Bailer got wounded and Colo William Washington took command of the Reagement and he the said Walker served in said Reagement to the end of August 1780 when he was Discharged [Several words illegible] in Indigent circumstances and needs help from his Country and Deposited[?] his Discharge[?] with the Register of the land office of Virginia
April 27th 1818 [signed] John Walker
- ↑ MySource:Pension Application of John Walker, Roane County TN, 1818
Source:White, 1992B notes that in his pension application "in September 1819, soldier gave his age as 64"
- ↑
 White documents in great detail descendants of John Walker I of Wigton Scotland and wife Jane McKnight. Collectively, these descendants are commonly referred to as "Wigton Walkers". Samuel is the head of what is known by some as the "Natural Bridge Line" of Wigton Walkers, settling near Natural Bridge c1750, just south of Borden's Grant. Another line of Walkers, referred to as the "Walkers Creek Line" settled on Walkers Creek in the northern portion of Borden's Grant. These two lines intermarried at an early date. By about 1840 their descendants lost track of their separate relationships, simply considering each other as "cousins". As a result White, 1902 was unaware that they had separate origins, and merged the two lines. YDNA tests on descendants of both lineages demonstrate that they do not have a common ancestor in a genealogically meaningful timeframe. We know for certain which of the two lines descend from John Walker I.
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