The following Information is from the Scots Ancestry Research Society Report - From old Parochial Registers of Saline, Fifeshire, Scotland:
"June 6, 1756, Alexander Walker and Christian Henderson had their child baptized called James."
The following information is from the Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files of the National Archives in Washington D.C. - File number S-19-150 (pp.0507-0513) on James Walker the immigrant:
"He was born May 1, 1757 (should read 1756), in Saline, Scotland. Resident of Palmer, Mass. during service. In 1832 he resided in Brandon, Rutland County, Vermont. In 1835 he was living in Pittsford, Rutland County, Vermont. When he applied for pension, he stated that in 1777 while service in a Scotch Regiment under General Burgoyne, he was taken prisoner when the army surrendered at Saratoga, New York and on the march to Boston left them at Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he enlisted in the summer of 1778 and served at various times during the Revolutionary War, amounting to 1 year and 11 months, as Private with the Massachusetts Troops under Captains Chapin, Todd, Joseph Browning and Oliver Coney and Colonels Craft, Seth Murray and Sears. James Walker was pensioned on Certificate 3-784 which was issued under the act of June 7, 1832 (abt 15 pages). The pension was paid at the Vermont agency. There is information from the Bureau of Pensions that James resided in Pittsford, Vermont when he drew pension in 1835. There is a record of payment of pension to James Walker in 1848."
Leon Walker (1906-1994) related the following story from his father, Emor Walker (1851-1943), about James Walker: It said that James was known as Scotch Walker and a letter came to the post office with James Walker on it and it was there a long time before they found out it belonged to Scotch Walker.
Wright Gardner's (1878-1966) notes indicate that James Walker was drafted from Dundee, Scotland into Burgoyne's British army and that he visited Marcellus, New York about 1845 and died about 1849 and is buried in Sudbury, Vermont.
"June 6, 1756, Alexander Walker and Christian Henderson had their child baptized called James."
The following information is from the Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files of the National Archives in Washington D.C. - File number S-19-150 (pp.0507-0513) on James Walker the immigrant:
"He was born May 1, 1757 (should read 1756), in Saline, Scotland. Resident of Palmer, Mass. during service. In 1832 he resided in Brandon, Rutland County, Vermont. In 1835 he was living in Pittsford, Rutland County, Vermont. When he applied for pension, he stated that in 1777 while service in a Scotch Regiment under General Burgoyne, he was taken prisoner when the army surrendered at Saratoga, New York and on the march to Boston left them at Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he enlisted in the summer of 1778 and served at various times during the Revolutionary War, amounting to 1 year and 11 months, as Private with the Massachusetts Troops under Captains Chapin, Todd, Joseph Browning and Oliver Coney and Colonels Craft, Seth Murray and Sears. James Walker was pensioned on Certificate 3-784 which was issued under the act of June 7, 1832 (abt 15 pages). The pension was paid at the Vermont agency. There is information from the Bureau of Pensions that James resided in Pittsford, Vermont when he drew pension in 1835. There is a record of payment of pension to James Walker in 1848."
Leon Walker (1906-1994) related the following story from his father, Emor Walker (1851-1943), about James Walker: It said that James was known as Scotch Walker and a letter came to the post office with James Walker on it and it was there a long time before they found out it belonged to Scotch Walker.
Wright Gardner's (1878-1966) notes indicate that James Walker was drafted from Dundee, Scotland into Burgoyne's British army and that he visited Marcellus, New York about 1845 and died about 1849 and is buried in Sudbury, Vermont.
The following Information is from the Scots Ancestry Research Society Report - From old Parochial Registers of Saline, Fifeshire, Scotland:
"June 6, 1756, Alexander Walker and Christian Henderson had their child baptized called James."
The following information is from the Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files of the National Archives in Washington D.C. - File number S-19-150 (pp.0507-0513) on James Walker the immigrant:
"He was born May 1, 1757 (should read 1756), in Saline, Scotland. Resident of Palmer, Mass. during service. In 1832 he resided in Brandon, Rutland County, Vermont. In 1835 he was living in Pittsford, Rutland County, Vermont. When he applied for pension, he stated that in 1777 while service in a Scotch Regiment under General Burgoyne, he was taken prisoner when the army surrendered at Saratoga, New York and on the march to Boston left them at Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he enlisted in the summer of 1778 and served at various times during the Revolutionary War, amounting to 1 year and 11 months, as Private with the Massachusetts Troops under Captains Chapin, Todd, Joseph Browning and Oliver Coney and Colonels Craft, Seth Murray and Sears. James Walker was pensioned on Certificate 3-784 which was issued under the act of June 7, 1832 (abt 15 pages). The pension was paid at the Vermont agency. There is information from the Bureau of Pensions that James resided in Pittsford, Vermont when he drew pension in 1835. There is a record of payment of pension to James Walker in 1848."
Leon Walker (1906-1994) related the following story from his father, Emor Walker (1851-1943), about James Walker: It said that James was known as Scotch Walker and a letter came to the post office with James Walker on it and it was there a long time before they found out it belonged to Scotch Walker.
Wright Gardner's (1878-1966) notes indicate that James Walker was drafted from Dundee, Scotland into Burgoyne's British army and that he visited Marcellus, New York about 1845 and died about 1849 and is buried in Sudbury, Vermont.
"June 6, 1756, Alexander Walker and Christian Henderson had their child baptized called James."
The following information is from the Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files of the National Archives in Washington D.C. - File number S-19-150 (pp.0507-0513) on James Walker the immigrant:
"He was born May 1, 1757 (should read 1756), in Saline, Scotland. Resident of Palmer, Mass. during service. In 1832 he resided in Brandon, Rutland County, Vermont. In 1835 he was living in Pittsford, Rutland County, Vermont. When he applied for pension, he stated that in 1777 while service in a Scotch Regiment under General Burgoyne, he was taken prisoner when the army surrendered at Saratoga, New York and on the march to Boston left them at Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he enlisted in the summer of 1778 and served at various times during the Revolutionary War, amounting to 1 year and 11 months, as Private with the Massachusetts Troops under Captains Chapin, Todd, Joseph Browning and Oliver Coney and Colonels Craft, Seth Murray and Sears. James Walker was pensioned on Certificate 3-784 which was issued under the act of June 7, 1832 (abt 15 pages). The pension was paid at the Vermont agency. There is information from the Bureau of Pensions that James resided in Pittsford, Vermont when he drew pension in 1835. There is a record of payment of pension to James Walker in 1848."
Leon Walker (1906-1994) related the following story from his father, Emor Walker (1851-1943), about James Walker: It said that James was known as Scotch Walker and a letter came to the post office with James Walker on it and it was there a long time before they found out it belonged to Scotch Walker.
Wright Gardner's (1878-1966) notes indicate that James Walker was drafted from Dundee, Scotland into Burgoyne's British army and that he visited Marcellus, New York about 1845 and died about 1849 and is buried in Sudbury, Vermont.
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