Ruben Walker (1739)

Born 11 Feb 1739 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

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Biography

Ruben was born in 1739 to Hezekiah Walker and Hannah Putnam in Sudbury. They moved to Shrewsbury, where his mother died.

"Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts," edited by Ellery Bicknell Crane, 1907, page 271-272. [formatting added to enhance readability]

WALKER FAMILY.

(V) Hezekiah Walker, born February 24, 1718, married Hannah Putnam, in Sudbury, April 4, 1738, and had one child born in Sudbury, January 15, 1742-43. He purchased forty-one acres and forty rods of land in Shrewsbury of Daniel How, and removed to that place. His first wife died, and he married in Shrewsbury, Sarah Prescott, of Lancaster, September 29 [actually 4], 1747. He bought and sold various pieces of land in Worcester county, in the towns of Holden and Lancaster. The home of the family was chiefly in Shrewsbury. Children were,

• Ruben, born February 11, 1739, in Sudbury [note that this date and place indicates he was the son of Hannah Putnam];
• Rachel, July 8, 1748;
• Hezekiah, February 14, 1750, baptized in Lancaster May 5, 1751;
• Sarah, baptized there May 29, 1754.

Sources

• "Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts," edited by Ellery Bicknell Crane, 1907, page 271-272