Samuel Walker

Abt 1615 - 1684  (~ 69 years)

• Name	Samuel Walker
  Birth	Abt 1615  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Between 1615 and 1617  [2]
  Death	6 Nov 1684	Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [1, 3, 4]
  Person ID	I30432	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	29 Sep 2025

  
  

  Family	(Unknown first wife of Samuel Walker)   d. Aft 1661
  Marriage	Abt 1642  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Samuel Walker,   b. 28 Jun 1643, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 18 Jan 1704, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 60 years)
  Family ID	F18167	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Jul 2023

  
  

• Notes

  He arrived no later than 1637. He signed the Exeter Combination in 1639, and continued there until 1644 when he removed to Reading. In 1654 he removed to Woburn where he was a malster and a tavernkeeper. In 2023 Eugene Allen Walker (citation details below) established convincingly that the Samuel Walker of Exeter and the Samuel Walker of Reading and Woburn were the same man. DNA work written up in American Ancestors volume 23, number 4, Winter 2023 -- Eugene Allen Walker, "Samuel1 Walker, Kinsman of Captain Richard Walker", pp. 38-41 -- establishes that this Samuel Walker was probably a first or second cousin of early immigrant Richard Walker (d. 1687) who emigrated in 1633 and settled first at Lynn.

  
  

• Sources

  [S6889] Eugene Allen Walker, "The Whereabouts of Samuel1 Walker of Reading and Woburn, Massachusetts, Prior to His Arrival at Reading in 1644." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 177:119, Spring 2023. [S2124] Twenty-Six Great Migration Colonists to New England & Their Origins by John Brooks Threlfall. Madison, Wisconsin, 1993. [S2124] Twenty-Six Great Migration Colonists to New England & Their Origins by John Brooks Threlfall. Madison, Wisconsin, 1993., date only. [S8702] Arthur G. Loring and William R. Cutter, "Samuel Walker, of Woburn, Mass., and Some of His Descendants." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 57:350, 1903.