John WALKER

1618 - Bef 1652  (34 years)

• Name	John WALKER  [1, 2]
  	John Walker came to America about 1633 and was admitted as freeman in Boston at the General Court held May 14, 1634, at the same time with John Hall.. Mr. William Brenton, and Revs. John Cotton, Thomas Hooker, and Samuel Stone. He appears to have made it his home in Boston for several years, for it is recorded that, in 1637, he and others were warned to deliver up all guns, pistols, swords, powder, shot, etc., because they accepted the teachings of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson, a woman who had opinions of her own on religious subjects, and worse than all, in the eyes of the Puritan leaders of the colony, drew the more liberal and intelligent over yo her way of thinking. The reasons for this extraordinary proceeding are thus set forth in the "Colonial Records". "Whereas, the opinions and revelations of Mr. Wheelwright and Mrs. Hutchinson have seduced and led into dangerous errors many of the people here in New England, inasmuch as there is just cause for suspicion that they, as others in Germany in former times, may upon some revelations make suddaine irruption upon those that differ from them in judgement, for prevention whereof it is ordered, etc.," that these persons be disarmed. Mr. Walker was one of those who fled to Rhode Island to escape persecution, going there probably with Roger Williams and William Brenton in 1638. March 7th of that year, at Portsmouth, R.I., he and eighteen others signed the following compact: "We, whose names are underwritten, do hereby solemnly in the presence of Jehovah, incorporate ourselves into a Bodie politicke, and as he shall help us will submit our persons, lives and estates unto our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, and to all those perfect and most absolute laws of his given us in his Holy Word of Truth, to be guided and judged thereby." May 13th following, he was present at a General Meeting held upon public notice. Soon after Davenport planted his colony, he seems to have left Rhode Island, and made it his permanent home in New Haven, his name appearing on the records there first in 1639. Having assented to the Covenant of the Planters, lands were assigned to him in the general allotment, a home lot on the West Creek, and about five acres in outside los, all near those set apart to John Hall. In 1644, with John Hall, he took the oath of allegiance, and in 1648 the two are corded as renting parts of the "Oyster Shell Field," so called. There having been, according to J.B.R. Walker's 'Genealogy of the Walkers,' no less than five John Walker in the country before 1650, it is sometimes difficult to determine with certainty to which one of the five any particular fact or set of facts relates, but the circumstances that William Brenton, Joh Hall, and a John Walker, came to Boston in 1633, and were all admitted as freemen in Boston at the same court the next year; that in so small a town as Boston then was, the three must necessarily have become well acquainted, even if they did not, as is supposed, come over on the same vessel; that in 1638 a John Walker went to Rhode Island at the same time with Mr. Brenton, and that after 1639, as the 'Walker Genealogy' states, nothing more was known of him there; that in 1639 a John Walker appeared in New Haven - an old friend of John Hall's, as would seem from their securing allotments and renting land together, and the subsequent intermarriage of their children; all these circumstances combine in showing that with scarcely a shadow of doubt, the JohnWalker who was made freeman in 1634 and disarmed in 1637; who fled to Rhode Island in 1638, and finally settled in new Haven in 1639, is one and the same. The name of John Walker's wife was Grace, but neither her surname nor place and date of her birth are known. [1]
  Birth	1618	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 22 Apr 1652	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I58994	Main Tree
  Last Modified	8 May 2021

  
  

  Family	Grace ?,   b. 1620   d. 1660, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (Age 40 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1652	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
  Children	1. Mary WALKER,   c. Mar 1641   d. 18 Mar 1711 (Age ~ 70 years)  [Birth] + 2. Hannah WALKER,   c. 28 Sep 1646, New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut d. 20 Dec 1728, Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut (Age ~ 82 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F05288	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 May 2021

  
  

• Sources

  [S12076] Charles S. Hall, HALL Ancestry A Series of Sketches of the Lineal Ancestors of the children of Samuel Holden Parsons Hall and his wife Emeline Bulkeley. [S12077] Donald Lines Jacobus, "Families of Ancient New Haven" Vol. VII-VIII .