Genealogie Wylie » Capt. Phillip Walker [Wdia] (1734-1793)

Persoonlijke gegevens Capt. Phillip Walker [Wdia] 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1734 in Augusta County, Virginia.
• Hij is overleden oktober 1793 in Camden District, Chester County, South Carolina, hij was toen 59 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Alexander Walker en Esther Gray
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 8 oktober 2009.

Gezin van Capt. Phillip Walker [Wdia]

Hij had een relatie met Rebecca Gay.

Kind(eren):

1. Robert Walker  > 1755-????
2. Philip Walker  > 1755-> 1787
3. Esther Walker  ± 1764-1834 
4. Alexander Walker  1773-1835 
5. Samuel G. Walker  ± 1776-1852 
6. William Gay Walker  1783-1854 
7. James Hemphill Walker  1790-1845 

Notities over Capt. Phillip Walker [Wdia]

The Walkers of Rocky Creek:

"Philip Walker, ( 1740- 1794), son of Alexander and Esther, raised a company in Col. Richard Richardson's regiment for service in the Cherokee War of 1776, and furnished a wagon for transporting supplies. He lost his left ear on October 29, 1777, when two of his neighbors Capt . Peter Nance and William Henderson hired a man to bite it off, and was ever afterward know as "Philip Walker, Esquire."

From May 11 to June 20, 1778, Captain Walker's company was with Col. John Winn on an expedition for the relief of Georgia from British invasion. Then in December 1778 he marched his company to Ninety Six, South Carolina, and took prisoners from there by way of Moncks Corner to Charleston. From there he marched to Gen. Benjamin Lincoln' s headquarters at Black Swamp where his company was attached to Col. Maurice Simons' command under Gen. William Moultrie. Retreating in front of the British Gen. Augustine Prevost's troops, his company participated in the Battle of Coosawhatchie Bridge on May 3, 1779. They marched on to Charleston and remained there until after the Battle of Stono Ferry. After the surrender of Charleston the next year, Captain Walker raised another company and was with Sumter on his rounds. The following year, he marched to the Low Country and was in the Battle of Biggin Church on July 17, 1781. During the summer of 1782, he succeeded Capt. Joseph Palmer as purchasing commissary for Colonel Lacey's regiment and was at the Congarees and Orangeburgh. He was appointed a justice of the peace for Camden District on February 16, 1782, and held this position until his death in April 1794.

An interesting aside is provided in "The Walker Family: Ireland to Texas." John Raleigh Jackson, Ed.D. states that Captain Philip Walker's command captured the British troops who had captured the Revolutionary troops in which Andrew Jackson and his brother Robert were assigned. The Jacksons were placed in prison in Camden, South Carolina. It was here that a British officer ordered Andrew to shine his boots. Andrew refused and the officer struck twice with his sword, cutting a severe gash on his shoulder and one across his cheek. Scars remained for the rest of his life. It is believed that this his one of the reasons for Andrew life long hatred of the British. The next day, Captain Walker's command captured the British troops who had captured Andrew and Robert Jackson. Captain Walker bargained with the British and released 15 British soldiers for the release of Andrew and Robert, whose mother, Elizabeth, had ridden 45 miles to ask for her sons' release.

He married Rebecca Gay ( September 26, 1742-post 1826), daughter of Capt. Samuel Gay of York County, but formerly of Augusta County, Virginia. They were the parents of the following children: Esther, Philip, Jr., Samuel, William Gay."

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