Individual Details

Samuel Walker

( - )

Mentioned in activities related to Edward Sharp, Samuel Walker is believed to have been the father or brother of Barbara Walker. Barbara Walker was the wife of William McClellan, the brother of Edward's wife Jane McClellan.

Events

Will-shared	2 May 1770	(Edward Sharp) Botetourt County, Virginia, British America
Miscellaneous-shared	15 Aug 1771	(William McClellan) William McCellan was named guardian of Edward Sharp's three children, Anthony, John, and Annis, - Botetourt County, Virginia, British America

Families

Child

Barbara Walker (1741 - )

Notes

Will-shared

The will names his wife Jane and three children as heirs, and his father in-law John McClellan and brother in-law William McClellan as executors. Edward's sons Anthony and John are specifically called out in the will, stating that it was his desire that their share of the estate be used to secure land at the mouth of Reidey [sic] (i.e., Reedy) Creek upon the Holston (in present day Tennessee) for each. Subscribers of the will were Samuel Walker (thought to be father or brother of William McClellan's wife Barbara), William Latherdall, and John Kerr. All three of these men were likely close neighbors. The will was officially recorded on 12 June 1770.

Boozy Creek is approximately 180 miles farther down the Appalachian mountain range, west/southwest of Buchanan, VA, and approximately 10 miles east/northeast of present Kingsport, TN. Boozy Creek is located in the area of the Holston River Valley, situated between the North Fork Holston River and South Fork Holston River. The creek empties into Reeds Creek, which itself empties into the South Fork Holston River at Kingsport, TN (Google Maps).

Miscellaneous-shared

Abraham McClellan, Samuel Walker, and Joseph Walker are recorded as having acknowledged the bond. In "Sharp Family History," Pulizos and Braner speculate that this change in guardianship was because their mother Jane and her new husband John Kerr were relocating to what is now the Sullivan County, Tennessee area (formerly Washington County, VA and Sullivan County, North Carolina). Jane and John relocated to this area with Jane's father John McClellan, her sister Mary (McClellan) Looney (wife of David Looney), and Alexander Brackenridge.

Endnotes

1. Frederick Bittle Kegley, Kegley's Virginia Frontier: The Beginning of the Southwest: The Roanoke of Colonial Days, 1740-1783, (Google eBook) (Roanoke, Virginia; Reprinted in Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1938; Reprinted 2003), 499; ebook, Google, Google Books (http://books.google.com/books?id=Bp0nOrLrPlYC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false : Electronically accessed 2 January 2012.

2. Stewart, Michael R. (inquiry@cousinsearchnetwork.com), CousinSearchNetwork, Lt Col David Looney Revolutionary War Soldier (http://research.cousinsearchnetwork.com/12843.html : Accessed 4 March 2012), .

3. Anne Lowry Worrell, Early Marriages, Wills and some Revolutionary War Records – Botetourt County, Virginia (Hillsville, Virginia: Anne Lowry Worrell, 1958), 63.

4. Botetourt County, Virginia, Will Book A 1, Last Will and Testament of Edward Sharp, 12 June 1770; Virginia State Library, Richmond, VA.

5. Jo Ann Pulizos, Sharp Family History (N.p.: n.p., June 1986), 2-3.

6. Botetourt County, Virginia, County Ov 1770-1771, page 273, 15 August 1771; Botetourt County Circuit Courty Clerk's Office, Fincastle, Virginia.