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- ORIGIN: Unknown MIGRATION: 1633 FIRST RESIDENCE: Lynn REMOVES: Reading by 1647, Boston by 1666, Lynn by 1673 OCCUPATION: Soldier. CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Lynn (or perhaps Salem) church prior to 4March 1633/4 implied by freemanship. FREEMAN: 4 March 1633/4 [MBCR 1:368]. Took the oath of allegiance to theking, as an inhabitant of Lynn, 1678 [EQC 7:158]. EDUCATION: He signed his name to all important documents. OFFICES: Deputy to General Court for Lynn, 13 May 1640, 1 June 1641 [MBCR1:288, 318]. Committee to set the bounds between Lynn and Salem, 13February 1638[/9] [EQC 7:125]. Grand jury, as 'Lt. Rich. Walker,' 25January 1641[/2], 27 December 1642, 27 June 1643, 27 September 1681 [EQC1:33, 44, 53, 8:150]. Jury, 3 October 1637, 26 December 1637, 31 December1639, 29 December 1640 [EQC 1:6, 7, 14, 24]. Commissioner to end smallcauses for Lynn, 1678-83 [EQC 7:37, 242, 397, 8:134, 339, 9:50]. Lynnselectman, 1657, 1673-75, 1678-79 [EQC 5:198, 356, 6:51, 325, 7:124, 222]. Chosen ensign for Saugus, 9 March 1636/7 [MBCR 1:190]. Admitted toAncient and Honorable Artillery Company, 1638 [HAHAC 1:81-82]. Captainfor the company at Reading, 7 October 1651 [Pulsifer 22]. Deputy governor of Nova Scotia under Sir Thomas Temple, 1670[Dictionary of Canadian Biography 1:666-67]. On 11 November 1670 RichardWalker acknowledged receipt of £143 from Sir Thomas Temple and releasedTemple of all debt to him [SLR 7:51] BIRTH: About 1611 (deposed 1653 aged about 41 years [EQC 2:94]; deposed30 June 1676 'aged about sixty-five years' [EQC 6:300]). DEATH: Buried Lynn 16 May 1687 ('this day Capt. Walker, a very agedplanter, buried at Lin' [Sewall 139]). (Savage notes that Lewis claimedan age at death of 95 [Savage 4:395], but this is inconsistent with allother data for this man.) MARRIAGE: (1) By 1637 Jane Talmage, daughter of THOMAS TALMAGE. She wasdeceased by 1640 [Lechford 294]. (2) By about 1642 Sarah _____. She was living on 19 June 1688 [SPR10:346].
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Abt 1611 - 1687 (~ 76 years)