Robert Walker
- Born: 1607 or 1608, Manchester, Lancashire, England 74,77
- Christened: 21 Feb 1607 or 21 Feb 1608, Manchester, Lancashire, England 72,74,75
- Marriage: Sarah Leager about 1635 in Boston Suffolk, Massachusetts 77
- Died: 29 May 1687, Boston Suffolk, Massachusetts at age 79 72,74,75,77
- Buried: 31 May 1687, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 72,74,75
 General Notes:
~ The Manchester Cathedral Register, p. 154, lists a Robert son of Thomas Walker of Ardwick being Christened on 21 Feb 1607. 1135
 Noted events in his life and other information:
• He emigrated from England to Massachusetts. in 1632. 75
• He worked as a Weaver; linen webster. 75 • Religion. 75
He was admitted to Boston church as member #131.
Robert Walker was one of the leaders among those who broke away from the First Church to found the Third Church in 1669; his wife Sarah was admitted to the Third Church on 16 October 1674 [Hamilton Andrews Hill, History of the Old South Church (Third Church) Boston, 1669-1884, 2 volumes (Boston 1890), 2:23, 28, 40, 51, 113, 118, 144, 148, 202.
• Dates & Events. 543
Of English birth and lineage, was Robert Walker, born in 1606, admitted a freeman of Boston, Massachusetts, in 1632, and living in that city as late as June 10, 1684. He had six sons: Reverend Zechariah; John, born 1639, died there 6 Jun 1663; Jacob; Joseph, born 1646, died 1655; Eleakim, born 1652; Joseph (second Joseph).
~Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania, Vol. III, pg. 1492
Robert married Sarah Leager, daughter of James Leager and Margaret Grimwood, about 1635 in Boston Suffolk, Massachusetts.77 (Sarah Leager was born about 1607 in Hadleigh, Suffolk, England, died on 21 Dec 1695 in Boston Suffolk, Massachusetts 75 and was buried on 23 Dec 1695 in Boston Suffolk, Massachusetts 75.)
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