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Thomas Walker (January 25, 1715 – November 9, 1794) was a physician, planter and explorer in colonial Virginia who served multiple terms in the Virginia General Assembly, and whose descendants also had political careers.
Feb 10, 2024 · Dr. Thomas Walker was the first Euro-American to document having crossed through the Cumberland Gap. The trail he blazed into Kentucky in 1750 would be followed by Daniel Boone and millions of...
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Thomas Walker (actor) (1698–1744), English actor and dramatist. Thomas Walker (author) (1784–1836), English barrister, police magistrate and writer of a one-man periodical, The Original. Thomas Bond Walker (1861–1933), Irish painter.
Jun 20, 2013 · Thomas Walker, a notorious slave trader active in West Africa in the late 18th century, was the great-great-great-grandfather of George W. and George H.W. Bush. New historical evidence links the signatures of Walker and the known Bush ancestor, based on documents from Bristol and Sierra Leone.
Thomas Walker was one of the early Virginia explorers who pushed westward across the Appalachian Mountains, expanding European settlements by documenting the existence of Cumberland Gap, building the first colonial house in Kentucky, and surveying both parcels for sale and boundaries between colonies. 1
Feb 14, 2024 · Thomas Walker (January 25, 1715 – November 9, 1794) was a physician, planter and explorer in colonial Virginia who served multiple terms in the Virginia General Assembly, and whose descendants also had political careers. Walker explored Kentucky in 1750, 19 years before the arrival of Daniel Boone.
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Thomas Walker was an 18th-Century explorer of North American who named the Cumberland Gap. He was born on Jan. 25, 1715 in Rye Field, King and Queen County, Virginia. Not much is known of his early life.
