When William Walton Sr. was born on 27 April 1743, in Amherst, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, British Colonial America, his father, Samuel Walton III, was 37 and his mother, Rebecca Davis, was 34. He married Hannah Jaques Littlehale about 1771, in Dunstable, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Lincoln, Maine, United States in 1790 and Fayette, Kennebec, Maine, United States in 1800. He died on 15 April 1823, in Maine, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Fayette Mills Cemetery, Fayette, Kennebec, Maine, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1760: Lincoln, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States 1820: Lincoln, Maine, United States
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Historical Boundaries: 1781: Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States 1799: Kennebec, Massachusetts, United States 1820: Kennebec, Maine, United States
English: habitational name from any of numerous places called Walton, which are named with Old English walh ‘foreigner, Briton, serf’ (genitive plural wala), wald ‘woodland’, wall ‘wall’, or wælla ‘well, spring, stream’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
History: George Walton (1741–1804) signed the Declaration of Independence. He was born in Prince Edward County, VA, whither his grandfather had emigrated from England in 1682. He moved to Savannah, GA, and became governor of GA and a prominent jurist.
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