John Walker (1744–1809)
In 1803 Walker and Bushrod Washington exchanged letters regarding land matters.
John Walker, planter and U.S. senator, was born on 13 February 1744 at Castle Hill, near Cobham, Albemarle County, Virginia. He was the son of Dr. Thomas Walker (a friend of George Washington) and Mildred Thornton Meriwether (a granddaughter of a Washington aunt). A graduate of The College of William & Mary, John became a planter at Belvoir, sat in the Virginia House of Burgesses (1772–76), and was an aide-de-camp to Washington during the Revolutionary War.
Dumas Malone, Jefferson the Virginian (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1948), 153–54, 447–51.
"Memorandum Books, 1767," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/02-01-02-0001. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series, Jefferson’s Memorandum Books, vol. 1, ed. James A Bear, Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997, pp. 3–43.]
"To George Washington from Bartholomew Dandridge, 16 January 1777," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-08-02-0085. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 8, 6 January 1777 – 27 March 1777, ed. Frank E. Grizzard, Jr. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, pp. 79–81.]
"April 1790," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-06-02-0001-0004. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 6, 1 January 1790 – 13 December 1799, ed. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979, pp. 55–72.]
"From George Washington to William Thornton, 7 October 1799," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/06-04-02-0289. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Retirement Series, vol. 4, 20 April 1799 – 13 December 1799, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999, p. 339.]
Richmond Enquirer, 2 January 1810, page 3, column 5 (Newspapers.com).
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