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Subject: [MOZINGO] John Walker Transport to Virginia
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 23:51:39 -0000
From: varsrch@@@@infi.net
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Source: Early Virginia Families Along the James River, Charles City
County-Prince George County, Viriginia, pg 6, Patent Book No. 1, Part
II states as follows: Cheney Boyes (Boys-Boyse), 1550 acs, Chas. City
Co. 24 Aug. 1637, p.
468 .... for trans. of 29 persons, .....Lawr. Walker, ...., Jon.
Walker,......
Note: All other transportees listed

From Lineages:
16 March 1992
Lt. Col. John WALKER
Previous research established that the ancestor Edward MOZINGO
was indentured to Lt. Col. John WALKER for twenty-eight years circa
1644. The only Lt. Col. John WALKER of record at that time served as
Burgess for Warwick River and Warwick Counties. The earliest records of
Warwick County have been lost.
The next records of Lt. Col. John WALKER are two patents for
land in Gloucester County. On 29 January 1651, Mr. John WALKER patented
1,000 acres on Ware River adjoining Mr. Mordecai COOKE. The land was
originally patented by John CHEW in 1641 and assigned (sold) to WALKER.
John WALKER also patented 150 acres on the eastward side of Deep Creek
adjoining George BEENES, claiming three headrights (Document 25e).
Although John WALKER never claimed his own headrights for land, he did
sell eight headrights to Richard RIPLEY, who used them to claim 400 acres
in Gloucester County on 29 January 165 1. Among the eight headrights sold
were two claims for Mr. John WALYER (Document 25d).
The records of Gloucester County have been lost, but the records
of its parent and neighboring county, York, have been preserved. Lt.
Col. John WALKER was mentioned in York County in 1652, but not earlier,
indicating that he probably was identical with the John WALKER who served
as a Burgess for Warwick County. Lt. Col. John WALKER also served as a
Burgess for Gloucester County 1655-1656.
On 14 July 1655, Lt. Col. John WALKER patented 1,200 acres
adjoining Zachary CRIPPS, Mordecai COOKE, and himself. The land included
1,000 acres patented in 1651 and an additional 200 acres claimed for four
headrights. This patent was renewed by Lt. Col. John WALKER in 1658
and 1663, and by Lt. Col. John WALKER, Esquire, in 1668 (Document 25e).
Lt. Col. WALKER also owned land in York County, because on 4
January 1655/6, John WALKER of Gloucester Countv rented it to Daniel
TUCKER. Zach. CRISPE, probably identical with WALKER�s neighbor Zachary
CRIPPS, was one of the witnesses (Document 26c). Lt. Col. John WALKER,
Esquire, was one of the Gloucester County Justices at this time, and
appeared in the earliest extant list of Gloucester County Justices of the
Peace dated 16 February 1656/7 (Documents 26b and 28e).
Lt. Col. WALKER was appointed to the Council of Virginia in
December 1656. Lt. Col. John WALKER, Esquire, was nominated to the
Council again in March 1658, and was listed as a Council member in March
1660 (Document 29). The position of Councilor was second in power and
prestige only to that of Governor. Councilors also constituted the
Quarter Court, equivalent to the Supreme Court. Lt. Col. WALKER was
listed as sitting on the Quarter Court on 30 March 1658 and 27 March 1660
(Documents 27c and 28b).
Three patents to John WALKER were recorded among the York County
Court Records. On 26 March 1660, Mr. John WALKER was granted 1,000 acres
in Lancaster County. On 12 October 1660, Mr. John WALKER was granted
2,700 acres �in the freshes� of Rappahannock River-half was north of the
river and half was south-and 1,000 acres in Northumberland County
adjoining Col. Richard LEE, Esq. WALKER assigned all three patents to
Maj. Joseph CROSHAW (Document 28c-d).
The next significant of record in the life of Lt. Col. John
WALKER is his marriage to Sarah, widow of Capt. Henry FLEETE of
Lancaster County. Capt. FLEETE was present at the April 1660 term of
court, and as Lt. Col. FLEETE was listed as a tithable (taxpayer) in
November 1660. His widow, Mrs. Sarah FLEETE, was mentioned on 8 May
1661, and listed as a tithable 23 October 1661 (Documents 30-32).
Apparently she married Lt. Col. WALKER between 23 and 28 October 1661,
because a power of attorney made in Westmoreland County proves the
marriage (Document 2c):
John WALLKER of Glocester County doe appointe Captn. James NEALE of
Maryland, Esqr., my attorney to demand a debt of 10,000 pounds of tobacco
oweing by Mr. William PEIRCE of Potomeck unto Lt. Coflonell FLEETE,
deceased, and due unto mee by marriage with Mrs. Saragh FLEETE the relict
and adminestratrix of Left. Collonell FLEETE.
Mr. William PEIRCE of Potomeck was Col. William PEIRCE of
Westmoreland County. Records of Col. PEIRCE are discussed beginning on
page 7.
John WALKER moved to Rappahannock County sometime after making
this power of attorney. As a resident of Rappahannock County, Col. John
WALKER wrote his will on 22 February 1665/6. He made legacies as
follows: to daughter Anne WALKER, six cows, and in lieu of two cows given
her by Francis BAYLIE, one feather bed with furnishings; to daughter
Frances WALKER, one cow and one feather bed with furnishings; to
daughters Jane and Elizabeth WALKER, the same legacy as given to daughter
Frances; his daughters Anne, Frances, Jane, and Elizabeth received equal
shares of his lands in Gloucester County to be delivered at age sixteen
or day of marriage, whichever came first; daughters Sarah and Hester
received equal shares of his lands in Rappahannock County (both were
under sixteen and unmarried); daughters Sarah and Hester received four
cows and feather beds with furnishings; wife Sarah received 1,000 acres
in Rappahannock County during her natural life. Richard FOX and Abraham
WARREN witnessed the will. John WALKER made a codicil on 6 July 1668:
two parcels of land-1,030 acres and 900 acres on the eastward side of
Rappahannock Creek-to wife Sarah in lieu of her dower rights in his
Gloucester County lands; the legacy given to daughter Anne in the will
has been received by her husband John PAYNE so is void. On 3 February
1668/9, Richard FOX, aged thirty-nine, and Joseph CHISELL, aged
twenty-seven, deposed that the will and codicil were valid (Document
23k-1).
Col. John WALKER was deceased by 28 January 1668/9 when his
widow Sarah made a will or deed of gift. Sarah named John WALKER�s six
daughters Anne PAINE (sic), Francis (sic) WALKER, Jane WALKER, Elizabeth
WALKER, Sarah WALKER, and Easter WALKER. She also named �my sonne Henry�
and �my Daughter Mary BURDEN.� Francis SETTLE and Richard FOX witnessed
the document, which was recorded 29 December 1679 (Document 23f-g).
Col. John WALKER, deceased, was next mentioned when the ancestor
Edward MOZINGO appeared before the Council and General Court on 5 October
1672:
Whereas it Appeareth by Divers Witnesses that had been Sworne and
Examined that Edward MOZINGO a Negro man had been and was an apprentice
by Indenture to Coll. Jno. WALKER and that by Computation his terme of
Servitude for Twenty Eight yeares is now Expired, The Court after a fall
heareing of the Matter In differrence Betweene the Said Edw: MOZINGO and
Doctor STONE who marryed Coll. WALKER�s Widdow, It is Adjudged by this
Court that the said Edw: MOZINGO be and Remayne free to all Intents and
purposes by order of This Court

Subject: Fw: Walker
From: "Vivian Abbott" To: "Gayle" Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 4:53 AM Subject: Re: Walker

...John Payne son of John Payne b. 1614 married Anne Walker in 1668. She was the daughter of Col. John Walker. Col. John Walker was married twice, his second wife was Mrs. Sarah Fleet and his daughters were Anne, Frances, Jane, Elizabeth, Sarah and Hester, all of which were single in Feb of 1665 when their father wrote his will which is recorded in Richmond Co. Anne, Frances, Jane and Elizabeth were by a former marriage, name of wife unknown. Daughters Sarah and Hester (Esther) were by his second marriage to Mrs. Sarah Fleet, who had 2 children by Col. Henry Fleet: Henry and Mary Fleet. Col. John Walker was Burgess for Warwick Co. 1644, 1646 and 1649. He moved to Gloucester and in 1656 was Lt. Co. and Member of Council. 22 Feb 1665 Co. Walker wrote a will naming his wife Sarah and his six daughters. To his daughter Anne, now under sixteen and the wife of John Payne, and giving her a share of his land in Gloucester Co., which was to be sold and divided among four of his daughters. His will was probated 3 Feb 1668/9. 28 Jan 1668/9 his widow, Mrs. Sarah Walker, wrote a deed giving six slaves to Col. John Walker's six daughters, Anne Payne, Frances Walker, Jane Walker, Elizabeth Walker, Sarah Walker and Esther Walker; to Anne Payne, a filley and a mare to each of her five sisters; to Frances Walker, five cows when she marries; similar gifts to four other daughters; to Anne Payne, Frances Walker, Jane Walker and Elizabeth Walker, the plate that was their father's; to son Henry, silver and household effects when he comes of age; and to daughter Mary Burden, silver and household effects. This deed was recorded 29 Dec 1679. Mrs. Sarah Walker married Col. John Stone of Rappahannock Co. after the above deed was written. Jane Walker married John Deane 1679; he married Elizabeth, daugher of Silvester Thatcher. Sarah Walker married Col. Edwin Conway 1685 and had Mary who married her first cousin John Daingerfield first then married Maj. James Ball in 1707. Col. Conway married Elizabeth Thompson; they were the great grandparents of President James Madison Hester or Esther Walker married Thomas Moss first then married Capt. Edmond Crask, Clerk of the Court. Henry Fleet, Jr. died in Lancaster Co. leaving a will dated 1729 (1733). ...Vivian


Subject: Re: Walker & Slaves & Deeds:
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:36:21 EDT
From: Famnation@@aol.com
To: tredio2000@@yahoo.com
CC: mtmelton@@comcast.net
,,,In the 1990's I was writing a socio-cultural timeline of the colonies to correspond with Mozingo info; obviously, I've a lot of updating to do!!! I do NOT have an early Warwick shire ref. of a Walker deed where he gives slaves to various daughters. ...

But i do have the following info:

1634: The Virginia Assembly created the 8 original shires. These included Warwick where Walker first held prominence. Also included among the 8 was James City, where monthly colony courts were held; Edw's appeal for his freedom was in 1672 held in James City. (Virginia Geneological Research, George Schweitzer, pp. 9-10)

Walker was involved in the gov't of the Va. Colony as early as from 1623-25, as a "member of the Convention". He was in 1644 a burgess of Warwick County (the probable year of Edw Mozingo's indentureship), and also in 1645/46 & 1649. (Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, Virginia State Library)

Walker is known to have land in Gloucester Co. by 1651. (Cavaliers & Pioneers, Nugent)

Walker also gains land in Lancaster County in 1657, which was in 1651 still Northumberland Co. (Cavaliers & Pioneers, Nugent, p. 362)

In 1661, John Walker & Sarah Sands Fleet are married. (Marriage date adjudged, as in this year Walker acquires 2000 a. of land that had been Henry Fleet's (Sarah's first husband).
(Va. Magazine of History & Biography, 2V71-72)

BTW, in this year of 1661, Virginia extended the term of a black servant from a specified number of years to life! It was no doubt on this basis that later John Stone, who m. Sarah Fleet Walker, was able to pursue making Edw Mozingo a "servant (sic: slave) for life; Edw Moizngo was really fortunate that he won his case!!! (From Slavery to Freedom, John Hope Franklin, p.72)

Sarah & Hester (sometimes seen as "Ester") were natural daus. of John & Sarah Walker.
Hester marries Rob't Tomlin. Ann Walker marries John Payne (Paine); and then John Dangerfield, Jr., in 1671. (Ann's husband lived to an old age, as his will is not proven until 1713. The Dangerfield estate was/is (!) on the s. side of the Rappanhannock River, right near where Edw Mozingo was a tenant farmer to Andrew Bo(w)yin.) (Wm & Mary Quarterly, 12W(1), 265)

Sarah Walker marries Edw Conway. (Ibid.) (It is she who I think married Andrew Bo(w)yin later...)

1662 Walker obtains land in (old) Rappahannock County on the s. side of the river (this may be the land that was later Bo(w)yin's!) (This land would have been formerly Lancaster Co., & before that Northumberland; it was later Essex Co., where its records are now held...)
(old Rappahannock Co. records, 2R.58, p. 270 (216); Cavaliers & Pioneers, Bk 2, Nugent, p. 481)

1662 Virginia introduced the "principle of heredity", i.e. " all children born in this country shall be held, bond or ffree only according to the condition of the mother..." Meanwhile, children born of a Negro father & white mother were to be indentured to a master for a term of 31 years...the Church, the local parish, was involved in the arrangement...and the child in reality provided a labor source to the specific parishioner /parish. (American Slavery, American Freedom, Morgan, pp. 335, 340)

1668/1669 Feb. 3 will of Co'l John Walker proven (written Feb 22, 1665; codicil 1668); Jan. 28 will of Sarah Fleet Walker written. First part of Walker's will mentions daughters Anne, Frances, Jane & Elizabeth; they receive substantial land as well as household items. Further on in the will he mentions daus. Sarah & Hester, which are his & Sarah's (also supported by their mother's will); it indicates the latter are not yet 16... Walker's 1668 codicil gives wife Sarah Fleet Walker almost 200 acres on the E. side of Rappck Creek (later known as Cat Point Creek) as long as she relinguishes her Gloucester Co. land she was given in the original 1665 will) (by the time of this addendum, Sarah, their dau. has married John Payne as noted in the updated will) Sarah & Hester were willed land in old Rappahannock Co.; think this is the land at least Andrew Bo(w)yin, and maybe Payne - and maybe even Dangerfield (Sarah's later husband) had...)

Note: Sarah Walker in her will left Negroes to her children as well as to Walkers (she later retracted this will after she had m. Jonathan Stone & Stone had lost the Edw Mozingo case in 1672). I have no record of Walker having left his children any slaves...would be great to find specific Warwick Co. recs.
(Possibly even a later volume Cavaliers & Pioneers has this info; or Northumberland, Lancaster or Essex might even have references)

(The Wills of Rappahannock County, Virginia 1656-1692, Sweeny, pp. 161-