Brief Life History of Ezekiel
When Ezekiel Walker was born on 22 February 1745, in Concord, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Capt. Timothy Walker Jr., was 33 and his mother, Martha Colby, was 25. He had at least 1 son with Abigail Maxon. He died on 22 July 1823, in Butler, Ohio, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Fairfield, Butler, Ohio, United States.
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- Ezekiel Walker, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
- Ezekiel Walker, "BillionGraves Index"
- Ezekiel Walker, "New Hampshire, Births and Christenings, 1714-1904"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
New Hampshire is 9th state.
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
Name Meaning
English (mainly North and Midlands) and Scottish: occupational name for a fuller, from Middle English walker, Old English wealcere (an agent derivative of wealcan ‘to walk, tread’), ‘one who trampled cloth in a bath of lye or kneaded it, in order to strengthen it’. This was the regular term for the occupation during the Middle Ages in western and northern England. Compare Fuller and Tucker . As a Scottish surname it has also been used as a translation of Gaelic Mac an Fhucadair ‘son of the fuller’. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
History: The name was brought to North America from northern England and Scotland independently by many different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Samuel Walker came to Lynn, MA, c. 1630; Philip Walker was in Rehoboth, MA, in or before 1643. The surname was also established in VA before 1650; a Thomas Walker, born in 1715 in King and Queen County, VA, was a physician, soldier, and explorer.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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