John Walker 
John was born in 1640 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, USA.1 John's father was Richard Walker and his mother was Jane Talmadge. His paternal grandparents were Richard Walker and Marjorie. He had a brother named Richard. He had three half-brothers and two half-sisters, named Shubael, Obadiah, Nathaniel, Tabitha and Elizabeth. He died at the age of 71 in 1711 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA. He was buried in 1711 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA.1 1 General Notes
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Ref: Pope's Pioneers of Mass. p. 281 John Walker married HannahLeager
(Leger) Nov. 14, 1655. Hannah's father Jacob mentions John Walker inhis
will dated Nov. 10, 1662 and probated March 19, 1662/3. This John is
generally referred to as John of Charlestown, Mass., where he livedmost
of his life. Like his brother, Richard of Ipswich, John was born atLynn,
by the Saugus River, but is supposed to have spent his boyhood inReading,
Mass., and at sometime resided in Woburn. He was a bricklayer bytrade,
and married first Anna (Hannah) Leager (Leger) and second, only sixmonths
after her death, Hannah Merick, daughter of John Merick. John Merickwas a
cooper from Wales, although he arrived in the colonies via Bristol,
England. John fought against the Indians in 1676. He belonged to the
First Church in Charlestown, where his children were baptised andwhere
his daughter Mary was married. His youngest son Joseph (1691-1711)was
also a soldier and died in the army, unmarried.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1590 in Newton Stacey, Hampshire, England
- b.1611 in Wimbledon, England d.13 May 1687 in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA
- b.~ 1591 in England
- b.1640 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d.1711 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA
- b.~ 1614 in Landulph, Cornwall, England d.~ 1640 in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA
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