About Manuscripts Profiles Maps Map Gallery Credits
Last name Walker
First name Enoch
Display name Enoch Walker
Birth date 1771
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends
Bio notes A member of John Pierce's group that traveled to the New York Indian Country in 1796. Walker was one of three Friends designated to live in Oneida Nation and help its resident Stockbridge, Tuscarora, and Brotherton members to build a mill and learn agriculture. Enoch Walker was born in 1771, the son of Joseph and Sarah Walker of Radnor Monthly Meeting. He married Phebe Miller at Providence under the care of Chester Monthly Meeting in 1797. In 1820 he was granted a certificate to Stroudsburgh Monthly Meeting.

Mentioned in:

Journal of a Visit to the Seneca Indians, 1796, by James Cooper of Woodbury, N.J.

John Peirce Notes, on a visit to Several Tribes of Indians, 1796

Jonathan Thomas His Book 1798

A series of letters written on a Journey to the Oneida, Onondago, and Cayuga Tribes of the Five Nations, by Joseph Sansom