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School Teachers of Early Maryland
by Robert Barnes
MSA SC 5300

Walker, Daniel, TA, on 26 Nov 1707 took Joseph Pond (natural son of Joseph Pond, dec. and Katherine his wife, now wife of Thomas Huzz, cooper) as a servant for 13 years. Walker was to teach him to read, write, and number, and to provide meat, drink, washing and lodging, and a suit of clothes, and a cow and a calf at the end of the term, (TALR 12:23). Daniel Walker, son of Daniel Walker, schoolmaster, was left a legacy in the will, dated 4 Oct 1708, of James Bishop of TA co. (Maryland Calendar of Wills 3:125).

Family: Daniel was a son of John and Elizabeth Walker of The stand, Pilkington, Eng., was clerk and register of St. Peter's Parish from 17907 to 28 Aug 1724, when he died (A:1:445; ESVR 1:86). He m. Phyllis [-?-]. On 4 June 1706 Francis Sutton made his will naming his son-in-law Daniel Walker (MWB 12:103).
Daniel and Phyllis were the parents of the folloiwng children, whose births were recorded in St. Peter's Parish, TA Co. (ESVR 1:78, 81, 82): James, b. 29 Aug 1705; Daniel, b. 31 Oct 1707; Elizabeth, b. 21 Dec 1709, d. 1 July 1714; John, b. 2 March 1711; William, b. 11 March 1713; Nathan, b. 13 July, d. 31 July 1716; Mary, b. 12 July 1717; and Daniel, b. 14 Feb 1724.
Property: On 4 Sep 1711 Walker bought 200 a. Enfield from Cornelius Collins and wife Sarah of TA Co. (TALR 12:57). On 26 Dec 1722 Joseph Pond of TA Co., cooper, conveyed to Daniel Walker, 92 a. Jamaica (TALR 13:52).

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