Anna Lee Armistead

Anna married Anthony Walke on 4 Apr 1725 in , , Virginia, USA. Anthony (son of Thomas Walke and Mary Lawson) was born in Dec 1692 in Fairfield Plantation, Kempsville, Princess Anne, Virginia, USA; died on 8 Nov 1768 in Fairfield Plantation, Kempsville, Princess Anne, Virginia, USA; was buried in Virginia Beach, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Married: 1750, , , Virginia, USA

Notes:

Colonel Anthony Walke II (1726 - 1779) was the son of Colonel Anthony Walke I. Colonel Walke II was one of the wealthiest Virginians of his day, a great advocate of social drinking, extravagant social gatherings, gambling, and horse racing. When trouble with England began, as a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, he espoused the cause of the colonies, and united with Patrick Henry, Mason, Madison, Marshall, Jefferson, and other patriots in resisting British oppression and in establishing American independence. He married Jane Bolling Randolph (1729-1756) who was a direct descendant of Powhatan, the most powerful chieftain in Tidewater Virginia at the time of the arrival of the Jamestown settlers in 1607. This strain in her blood could account for her children’s horseback riding abilities. Reverend Anthony Walke was the only surviving child of these parents. After she died, Col. Walke II married Mary Mosely and had several children: William Walke (1762 - 1795) (who is buried on the property at Ferry Plantation), Edward Hack Walke, John Basset Walke, Mary Walke, Frances Walke and Anna Walke.


Extracts from the Will of Anthony Walke
Source: The Virginia Magazine of History & Biography, Vol 5, No.2 (Oct 1897) pp 139-153

page 143 Anthony Walke, 2nd of "Fairfield"

Anthony Walke, the 2nd, son of Anthony Walke 1st, and Anna Lee Armistead, was born Jan 3, 1726. He married, first, Jane, daughter of Richard and Jane (Bolling) Randolph . . .b. 1729, d. 1756, m. 1750, and left issue by her, the Rev Anthony Walke, the 3rd, an Episcopal clergyman.

He married second, Mary Moseley, daughter of Col. Edward Hack Moseley and Mary Bassett, on May 8, 1757, and had issue: sons, Wm., Edward Hack, and John Bassett; daughters, Mary, Frances and Anna.

Col. Anthony Walke the 2nd, was a man of wealth and liberality. He gave the land and built at his own expense, a church edifice about 12 miles from Norfolk, in Princess Anne county, Virginia, known as "Old Donation Church." (now in ruins 1897)

Col Anthony Walke, 2nd, is buried at "Greenwich," Princess Anne County, Va., one of the Moseley seats.

page 143 (extracts from the will of Anthony Walke, 2nd, merchant, made 15 April 1776; first codicil 5 Dec 1777; second codicil 6 Dec 1777 - proved and ordered to be recorded 14 March 1782.)

Named: wife Mary, son Anthony, sons Edward Hack, William, daughters Mary, and Anna.

Daughter Frances and son John were born after the writing of the will and before making the first codicil. Anna died after the writing of the will and before the making of the first codicil.

page 144 to son Anthony 3rd

"I give and devise to my said son Anthony Walke (3rd) one half of all the lands I now own in the Borough of Norfolk, to him and his heirs forever. (the other half to be divided between William and Edward Hack)

page 145

"To son Anthony my suit of embroidered curtains, in membrance of his mother (Jane Randolph) who took great pains in working them, the two neat trunks, Gold studs, and every other article that belonged to my late wife, Jane Walke, now in my possession, my Father's Walnut Secretarie and clock, a piece of Gold coined in the year 1609, weighing about four pounds nine shillings, which belonged to my Great-Grandfather."

on page 146 from the first codicil there is a paragraph in which Anthony Walke 2nd changed his mind and revised his will. . .the land in the Borough of Norfolk to be equally divided among his 3 sons Anthony (3rd), William, and Edward Hack.

Anthony married Jane Bolling Randolph in 1741 in , , Virginia, USA. Jane (daughter of Richard Randolph and Jane Kennon Bolling) was born in 1729 in Kemperville, Princess Anne, Virginia, USA; died in 1756 in , Albemarle, Virginia, USA; was buried in , Albemarle, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anthony married Mary Moseley on 8 May 1757 in , Princess Anne, Virginia, USA. Mary (daughter of Edward Hack Moseley and Mary Bassett) was born in 1741 in , Prince William, Virginia, USA; died on 22 Nov 1795 in Greenwich, Prince William, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Reverend Anthony Walke (1755 - 1814) was the son of Colonel Anthony Walke II. He married Anne McColley McClenahan on January 15, 1776 and had six children: Anne M., Edwin, Jane Eliza, David Meade, Susan, and Anthony IV (1778 - 1820). On July 13, 1805, five months after Anne died, he married Anne Newton Fisher (1774 - 1840). They had three children: John Newton, Thomas, and Lemuel. They are all buried in the old burial ground in what is now Fairfield's subdivision, in unmarked graves.

Reverend Walke was 20 years old in the early winter of 1775 when he most likely witnessed troop movements and battles between Continental Army troops and Virginia Governor Lord Dunmore’s Loyalist troops (people who supported King George III) in battles at Kemp's Landing, 2.5 miles north and then at Great Bridge, 9 miles south of his Fairfield Manor House. The Revolutionary War (1775–1783) caught Reverend Walke at a time when he was coming of age into a Virginia gentry threatened by the loss of political power, wealth, and social prestige made possible by English control over the Virginia Colony. In his writings he blamed the north and their foolish Boston Tea Party actions.

Reverend Walke was a representative to the Virginia Constitutional Convention, and after the Revolutionary War, in early 1788 he was ordained a priest of the Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, and then served the following year as an elector from the State of Virginia to the first presidential election held in Philadelphia. Returning to Princess Anne County, Reverend Walke, with a large inheritance from his father, presided as rector over Lynnhaven Parish Church for many years without a salary (from 1788 to 1800 and again from 1812 to 1813).

Reverend Walke divided his time between preaching and the hunt. Not only was he noted for delivering sermons with a captivating mild mannered voice, but a more picturesque side of him was his love of fox and deer hunting. He conducted sermons with his horse Silverheels tethered near the door of the church. When he heard those hunting horns, he would immediately turn the service over to his clerk, Dick Edwards, and hurry off on Silverheels, not seen again until late in the day.