Zechariah Walker Sr (1637 - 1700)

Born 15 Sep 1637 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Prudden) Walker — married 20 Jan 1669 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, British North America

Husband of Susanna (Rossiter) Walker — married 8 Jul 1675 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, British North America

Descendants

Died 20 Jan 1700 at age 62 in Woodbury, Litchfield, Colony of Connecticut

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Biography

Zachary Walker was born to Robert Walker and ______ September 15, 1637 at Boston, Massachusetts.^[1][2] He was baptized on October 1, 1637 at Boston as Zacharias, son of Robert Walker.^[1]

Zechariah married first, say about 1669, Mary Prudden. He married second, after 1673/4 Susannah Rossiter.^[3][2]

Zechariah died at Woodbury, Connecticut January 20, 1699/70. ^[3]

From Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania:

Rev. Zechariah Walker, eldest son of Robert Walker, was bom in Boston, Massachusetts, 1637, died in Woodbury, Connecticut, January 20, 1700, He was a regularly ordained clergyman of the Presbyterian church, stationed at Jamaica, Long Island, 1663 to 1668; was ordained pastor of the Second Church in Stratford, Connecticut, May 5, 1670; removed with his family to Woodbury, June 27, 1678, and there resided until his death. His wife, Susannah, died April 26, 1710; children: Zechariah (2), Abigail, baptized May 22, 1670; Elizabeth, born March 1, 1675.

Residence

1669 Fairfield, Connecticut, USA^[4]

Death

20 Jan 1699 Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA^[5][6][7]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Boston, MA: Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.) Originally published as: A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston Containing Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699, Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, Boston, Massachusetts, 1883. Reference page 5. $Subscription
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995). Reference page 1913. $Subscription
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Coddington, John Insley, "Robert Walker of Boston, Massachusetts" The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) Reference Volume 21 (1944), pages 67-8. $Subscription
4. ↑ Connecticut Census, 1790-1890 Author: Jackson, Ronald V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp. Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1999.
5. ↑ Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934
6. ↑ Sons of the American Revolution. A National Register of the Society, Sons of the American Revolution (A. H. Kellogg, 1902)
7. ↑ Wilcoxson, William Howard. History of Stratford, Connecticut, 1639-1939 (Stratford Tercentenary Commission, Stratford, Conn., 1939) Page 501.

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• Robert & Zechariah Walker Research Paper $Ancestry
• John Walker Ancestry $Ancestry
• Excerpt including Rev. Walker biography $Ancestry
• Jordan, John W. Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1915, Vol. 3, p. 1492-1495)
• Barnes, Leon M., Barnes' Mortality Record of The Town of Woodbury (Leon M. Barnes, Woodbury, Connecticut, 1898) Page 5. Deaths:
  • 1699, January 20, Rev. Zachariah Walker, first pastor of First Congregational Church
• Smyth, Hon. R. D., Dr. Bryan (or Bray) Rossiter of Guilford, Conn., and His Descendants, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1901) Vol. 55, Page 151.