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Marriage: Children:
  1. Matthew Walden: Birth: 1780s. Death: bf 1834

  2. Stephen Walden: Birth: abt 1782 in Surry Co VA. Death: July 1842 in Surry Co VA

  3. Drury II Walden: Birth: abt 1786 in Northampton Co NC. Death: aft 1850 in Nashville, Davidson Co TN

  4. Martha Patsy Walden: Birth: 1790s. Death: bf 1850?

  5. Mary Polly Walden: Birth: 1790s. Death: 1835

  6. Armstead Armistead Walden: Birth: abt 1795 in Northampton Co NC. Death: bf 1850? in Northampton Co NC

  7. Micajah Walden: Birth: abt 1799 in Northampton Co NC. Death: aft 1850 in Jackson twp, Hamilton Co IN

  8. John Walden: Birth: abt 1800 in Northampton Co NC. Death: aft 1880 in Union twp, Ross Co OH

  9. Nancy Walden: Birth: abt 1800 in Northampton Co NC. Death: bf 1834 in Logan Co OH


Notes
a. Note:   N10 --DRURY WALDEN (William1), born about 1762, was a Revolutionary War pensioner. He made a declaration in Northampton County court to obtain a pension on 4 September 1832. He stated that he was living in Bute County in 1779 when he was called into the service. DRURY served three tours as a musician and private, the last one in 1781. He marched to Augusta on his first tour and on his second tour made gun carriages for the cannon and canteens for the soldiers, so he was probably a carpenter like his father. He married ELIZABETH HARRIS in 1780 in Northampton County. William HARDEE, Clergyman, testified that DRURY "was for years a preacher of the Gospel of Jesus Christ." CHARLES R. KEE, executor of DRURY's will, testified that: "... no man; no, not Jas K. Polk himself, is of better moral character" [National Archives File R11014]. (NOTE: CHARLES R KEE was the son of WILLIAM BRUTON & ANNE LITTLE of Northampton Co NC; grandson BRUTON KEA/KEE and SARAH SLATE of Surry Co VA; and great grandson of CHARLES KEA/KEE Sr & MARY BRUTON of Surry Co VA--who was the sister of my ancestor WILLIAM BRUTON of Surry Co VA. It appears there was some kind of relationship between the BRUTON, KEA/KEE, HART & WALDEN families, all of which lived in Surry Co VA, and migrated to NC. More research to come) DRURY WALDEN was also in the Third Company detached from the Northampton County Regiment in the War of 1812 [N.C. Adjutant General, Muster Rolls of the War of 1812, 20]. He was taxable in Warren County in the same district as JOHN CHAVIS WALDEN in 1786 [Tax List 1781-1801, 119]. He was head of a Northampton County household of 8 other free in 1790 [NC:73], 9 in 1800 [NC:483], 12 in 1810 [NC:752], 11 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:266], and 4 "free colored" in 1830. He purchased 173 acres in Northampton County on the south side of Occoneechee Swamp on 27 August 1794, sold 3 acres of this land on 1 September 1797 [DB 10:204, 316], and was taxable on 288 acres in all the extant Northampton County Tax lists from 1823 to 1834. On 2 March 1818 the court appointed him guardian to DAVID BYRD on 250 pounds bond [Minutes 1817-21, 84]. His 9 October 1834 Northampton County will, proved December 1834, named his wife ELIZABETH WALDEN and his children [WB 4:117]. On 2 September 1844 his son ARMSTEAD WALDEN made a declaration in Northampton County court to obtain a survivor's pension in which he provided the whereabouts of each member of the family. He stated that DRURY died 22 December 1834, and his wife ELIZABETH died in the fall of the year 1840.
 SOURCE: " Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia and South Carolina" by Paul Heinegg
Changedatetime:   15:02:21
Changedate:   21 May 2010
Changedatez:   2010-05-21T00:00:00.000Z


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