Dr Thomas Walker

• General Notes
  • 1750 - Dr. Thomas Walker enters Kentucky through the Cumberland Gap, following the Warriors' Path used by the Shawnee and Cherokee, while on a two-year exploration for the Loyal Land Company.
    
    
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    THE FRY FAMILY
    Part Two
    Reprinted from The Charleston Daily-Mail, August 5, 1934
    
    History and Genealogy of Pioneers
    
    
    Colonel Joshua Fry and his wife, Mary Micou, of Mont View, Albemarle county, left five children: John, born 1737, Henry, born 1738, Martha, born 1740, William, born 1760, and Margaret, born 1744.  Henry Fry, then deputy clerk of Albemarle county, Virginia married Susan Walker in her seventeenth year.  Susan or Sukey, was the daughter of Colonel John Walker of Belvoir, who was a confidential aide to Washington; a member of Congress and United States senator.  He married Elizabeth, daughter of Bernard Moore and Katherine Spotswood, daughter of Governor Spotswood.
    
    On May 21, 1764 Dr. Thomas Walker, his father, wrote to Bernard Moore, Burgess and done of the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe:
    
    "Dear Sir: My son, Mr. John Walker, having informed me of his intentions to pay his addresses to your daughter, Elizabeth, if he should not be agreeable to yourself, lady and daughter, it may not be amiss to inform you that I feel myself able to afford for their support, in case of a union.  My affairs are in an uncertain state, but I will promise 1000 pounds to be paid in 1766, and the further sum of two thousand pounds I promise to give him, but the uncertainty of my present affairs prevents my fixing on a time of payments: the above sums are all to be in money or lands and other effects at the option of my son John Walker.
    
            I am sir, your humble servant,
            Thomas Walker"
    
    Col. Bernard Moore, Esq.
    "In King William"
    Here was the reply:
    
    Dear Sir:  Your son, Mr. John Walker, applied to me for leave to make his addresses to my daughter, Elizabeth.  I gave him leave, and told him at the same time that my affairs were in such a state that it was not in my power to pay him all the money this year that I intended to give my daughter, provided he succeeded; but would give him five hundred pounds more as soon after as I could raise or get the money; which sums you may depend, I will most punctually pay to him.
    
            I am your obedient servant,
            Bernard Moore
    
    Dr. Thomas Walker, of Castle Hill, Albemarle county, is believed to have been the first white man who explored Kentucky.  He was one of the commissioners to treat with the Indians after General Lewis defeated them,.  He was one of the commissioners to run the dividing line between Virginia and North Carolina, known as the Walker line.  He was the guardian of Thomas Jefferson.