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| 1757 Virginia Map (Showing Portion of King and Queen County) at the LOC |
"Thomas Walker was born in King and Queen County, Virginia, on the 15th day of January 1715. He was married in 1741, at the age of twenty-six years, to a young widow six years younger than himself,--Mrs Nicholas Meriwether, whose maiden name was Mildred Thornton. She was the cousin of George Washington, whose elder brother, Samuel, had married one of her near relatives; and in this way Thomas Walker became closely and doubly connected with the Washington family. Through this marriage he came into possession of fifteen thousand acres of land in a beautiful, well-wooded and well-watered region of Piedmont Virginia... ." [Source]
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