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Samuel Walker

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Samuel Walker Veteran

Birth
Death
22 Aug 1818 (aged 66–67)
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Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
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Husband of Abigail (Badger) Walker died aged 67 yrs. "Early Vital Records of Mass. (Haverhill Deaths)"

Samuel, was ensign of Captain Thomas Cogswell's company, drafted for Continental service in 1775. He also marched, September, 1777, with a volunteer detachment to reinforce the Northern army. Samuel Walker was afterwards a prominent person in Haverhill town affairs. For more than thirty consecutive years and to the day of his death he held positions of honor and trust. The three brothers, Nathaniel, James and Samuel, were members of the Fire Society. Nathaniel and Samuel both find a place in the valuation list of householders in 1798. In 1801, Samuel Walker, Nathan Ayer and 4 others petitioned the town "for leave to conduct the water by means of an aqueduct, from the round pond, so-called, into this part of the town, for private and public convenience." This was the beginning of the Haverhill Aqueduct Company which was organized the same year under a general State law.

He had two surviving children: Samuel Ayer Walker, the late well-known auctioneer of Boston, and Robert Green Walker.

[source: "History of Essex County, Massachusetts", by D. H. Hurd, Ed, Published 1888, Vol.2, page 2057]
Husband of Abigail (Badger) Walker died aged 67 yrs. "Early Vital Records of Mass. (Haverhill Deaths)"

Samuel, was ensign of Captain Thomas Cogswell's company, drafted for Continental service in 1775. He also marched, September, 1777, with a volunteer detachment to reinforce the Northern army. Samuel Walker was afterwards a prominent person in Haverhill town affairs. For more than thirty consecutive years and to the day of his death he held positions of honor and trust. The three brothers, Nathaniel, James and Samuel, were members of the Fire Society. Nathaniel and Samuel both find a place in the valuation list of householders in 1798. In 1801, Samuel Walker, Nathan Ayer and 4 others petitioned the town "for leave to conduct the water by means of an aqueduct, from the round pond, so-called, into this part of the town, for private and public convenience." This was the beginning of the Haverhill Aqueduct Company which was organized the same year under a general State law.

He had two surviving children: Samuel Ayer Walker, the late well-known auctioneer of Boston, and Robert Green Walker.

[source: "History of Essex County, Massachusetts", by D. H. Hurd, Ed, Published 1888, Vol.2, page 2057]


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