Betty Hill

Betty married Robert Semple. [Group Sheet]

George married Mary Hill WALKER. Mary (daughter of Maj. Humphrey WALKER and Frances (Fannie) TEMPLE) was born 23 Dec 1786, King and Queen Co. VA. [Group Sheet]

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Walker Family Bible

Mary Hill Walker born Decm 23d 1786

Old New Kent County [Virginia]: Some Account of the Planters ..., Volume 1 By MALCOLM HART HARRIS, MD, p. 454

married her cousin, George Hill of Essex Co.

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He was from Locust Grove, and died in Richmond while attending the state legislature (General Assembly)



WALKER FAMILY BIBLE RECORDS 1709-1930

Humphrey Walker born Jany 13th 1762
Humphrey F_ill Jos Temple god Fathers
Mary Temple Hester Cowne god Mother

Humphrey Walker died the 26th December 1820 in Richmond a member of VA Assembly
aged 58 yrs 11 mo & 13 days

In old Virginia: slavery, farming, and society in the journal of John Walker By Claudia L. Bushman, John Walker
p. 12

Humphrey was a major in the state militia and sheriff of King and Queen Co. He was regularly elected to the General Assembly for 9 sessions, and was a planter and gentleman who moved easily in society. His lineage was from Tidewater society that had intermarried for generations. He owned a carriage and entertained frequently. It was not unusual for there to be 18 people for dinner with seven dishes of meat, four vegetables, pickles, a fine pudding, pie, tarts, cheese, wine and cider.

p. 15-16

Frances Temple was his first cousin.

Humphrey also inherited Locust Grove, building the present house, after the second house burned down around 1816. The new house had fewer, but larger rooms, allowing the river breezes on both sides of the structure. An alley of locust trees framed the entrance.

In 1820 he owned 745 acres, only 19 more landowners in King and Queen had more than he did, and only ten claimed more a thousand acres. On a tax list of 1800 Humphrey owned 6 horses, 4 wheeled vehicles, 18 adult and 6 teen-aged slaves.

Humphrey married Frances (Fannie) TEMPLE. Frances (daughter of Joseph TEMPLE, II and Mary (Mollie) HILL) was born 13 Jan 1765, Chatham Hill, King and Queen Co. VA; died 09 Feb 1824, Rye Field (Locust Grove) King and Queen Co. VA. [Group Sheet]

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first cousins

WALKER FAMILY BIBLE RECORDS 1709-1930

Frances Walker died 9th Feby 1824 aged, she lived 3 yrs 1 mth & 13 days after the death of her beloved husband

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Baylor Walker born January 28th 1737
Baylor Walker died April the 7 1773 aged 26 (unreadable)

Old New Kent County [Virginia]: Some Account of the Planters ..., Volume 1 By MALCOLM HART HARRIS, MD, p452-453

confirms the dates of birth, death, and marriage to Frances Hill, daughter of Co. Humphrey Hill.

Also notes Baylor built a brick house, now known as Locust Grove, near the Mattaponi River. The earlier Walker home had stood on high ground, near the walled in cemetery.

Virginia County Records SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY 1721-1800
DEEDS, DEED BOOK E 1751-1761, page 221

July 29, 1760. Joseph Temple and Mary, his wife, of St. Stephen's Par., King and Queen Co., to Robert Baylor and John Semple of Par. and Co. afsd. £80 curr. 400 a. in St. Geo. Par., Spts. Co., part of a tract granted Joseph Temple of King William Co., Gent., Decd., and by him devised to the sd. Joseph Temple, his son, etc. Witnesses, Lark. Chew, John Smith, Rd. Tunstall, Humphrey Hill, Baylor Walker. June 1, 1761.

In Old Virginia by Claudia L. Bushman (from the Journal of John Walker);p.14

Baylor was the scion of a closely related, complicated, and ingrown family with members being Walkers, Temples, Fleets, Hills, Baylors, and Semples.

Life described by an English visitor in 1732 likened the plantations and gentry as similar to the Thames from London to Richmond with manor houses and pleasant gardens. He also noted the Stratton Major Parish of the Church of England as having extreme class differentiation where the most noble families sat in the front of the church, and the lesser gentry behind them.

Baylor married Frances HILL 25 May 1759, King and Queen Co. VA. Frances (daughter of Colonel Humphrey HILL and Frances BAYLOR) was born 25 May 1759, Hillsborough, King and Queen Co. VA; died 1795, Rye Field (Locust Grove), King and Queen Co. VA. [Group Sheet]

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Some sources have her name as Frances.
They were cousins.

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Married:
Walker Family Bible

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Their home was named Chatham Hill.

Virginia County Records SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY 1721-1800
DEEDS, DEED BOOK E 1751-1761, page 221

July 29, 1760. Joseph Temple and Mary, his wife, of St. Stephen's Par., King and Queen Co., to Robert Baylor and John Semple of Par. and Co. afsd. £80 curr. 400 a. in St. Geo. Par., Spts. Co., part of a tract granted Joseph Temple of King William Co., Gent., Decd., and by him devised to the sd. Joseph Temple, his son, etc. Witnesses, Lark. Chew, John Smith, Rd. Tunstall, Humphrey Hill, Baylor Walker. June 1, 1761.

Joseph married Mary (Mollie) HILL. Mary (daughter of Colonel Humphrey HILL and Frances BAYLOR) was born 1732, Hillsborough, King and Queen Co. VA; died 1820. [Group Sheet]

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Her ancestral home was named Hillsboro. They had six other children who either died young or never married.