Nathaniel Walker 
Nathaniel was born in 1645 in Reading, Essex, Massachusetts.1 Nathaniel's father was Richard Walker and his mother was Sarah Hempstead. His paternal grandparents were Richard Walker and Marjorie. He had two brothers and two sisters, named Shubael, Obadiah, Tabitha and Elizabeth. He had two half-brothers named John and Richard. He died at the age of 38 in 1683 in Virginia. He was buried in 1683 in Virginia.1 1 General Notes
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Nathaniel married a woman named Dyer sometime after 1666. Ref:Suffolk
County Deeds, 1679. In the 1679 deed from Richard and Sarah (hisparents)
he was deeded one-third of the medow land and 100 acres of upland.
Nathaniel had been in Boston but was at this time at "the Kingdom of
Accomack" as it was called at the time of Bacon's Rebellion.
Ref: Will dated 27 April 1683 at Eastville, Northhampton County, Va.This
will mentions his two brothers, Shubael and Obediah, but does notmention
his sisters or half brothers Richard or John. Apparently his wife had
pre-deceased him for she is not mentioned; however, evidence indicates
that she was the daughter of William Dyer - some-time secretary ofthe
Rhode Island Council - the daughter of Mary Dyer, who was executed asa
Quakeress 1 June 1660 on Boston Common. As shown in descriptions ofhis
property, Nathaniel had become something of a land baron, owningproperty
in Maine, Rhode Island (the Narragansett County), Pennsylvania (now
Delaware) and Virginia. He had a farm at Groton, Mass., another at
"Witt's Hill in New England" and "land in Naragansett County, orPerott
County." At Winder's Neck, in a place called Whorekill, later NewDeal,
but now in Lewes, Sussex County, Delaware, Nathaniel had 1,100 acreswhich
he bequeathed to Quaker brother-in-law, Captain William Dyre (Dyer).In
Accomac County, Virginia, he owned a well stocked plantation of 237acres
upon Occohannock Creek, and in adjoining Northhampton County, moreland,
called Little Mockon, an island. This will, which goes on for several
pages has some interesting clauses: To Mrs. Frances Watterson, hisloving
friend, he bequeathed his two servants, "for the full time they haveto
serve," as well as his "great Bay horse called Dragon," with "all my
cattle running upon the Plantacon, which John Wilberry now lives upon,
both male and female, with all their future increases forever." ToMrs.
Watterson also went his two chests, one "Truncke," his "downe bed,"two
bolsters and one pillow with "rugg and Blankets" and "all my books
(Excepting the Great Bible,") all of which were at the house of John
Daniell. His "Scemiter" which he undoubtedly had carried whilecommanding
John Stratton's shallop in 1676 under orders from General Berkley andin
the cause of the King during Bacon's Rebellion, and was cast away in
Warrick's Creek Bay in the course of a storm, was bequeathed to Col.
William Kendall. All residue of his estate he left to his "honored
father" in Massachusetts, if living; otherwise to William Dyer. Hewas in
Virginia for more than twelve years but had kept in touch with his
brothers Shubael and Obediah and his father from time to time throughhis
extensive travels to secure land and via business interests.
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