Birth: ?
Death: 1743
Occupation: doctor

Associated Counties

• Baltimore City

Additional Information

• Dates: 1713
  Notes: Drs. George Walker, A.M. and James Walker arrive from Scotland and settle in Anne Arundel County
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 648
• Dates: 1715
  Notes: “Dr. Geo. Walker, A.M., arrives from Anne Arundel county, and in 1713 from Scotland.”
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 11
• Dates: 1715
  Notes: Locusts appear in great numbers in Maryland. — Dr. George Walker removes to Baltimore County and purchases a tract of land west of the site occupied later by Baltimore Town called “Chatsworth.”
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 648
• Dates: 1729
  Notes: Legislature passes an Act, entitled “An Act for erecting a town on the north side of Patapsco in Baltimore County, and for laying out into lots sixty acres of land in and about the place where one John Flemming now lives” (August 8). Flemming was a tenant of Mr. Charles Carroll and lived in a house situated near where Charles Street now is. Among the Commissioners named are Drs. George Buchanan and George Walker, the former being also a Justice of the County. The price paid Mr. Carroll for the ground was £200 ($320). Dr. Walker purchases one of the lots, an acre each, into which the town site was divided. A large number of the first settlers of Baltimore County were Friends.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 649
• Dates: 1730
  Notes: Served as Baltimore City Land Commissioner, 1730
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 249
• Dates: 1730, Jan. 12
  Notes: “Drs. Buchanan (Geo.) and Walker (Geo.) et al., purchase from Charles Carroll sixty acres of ground for the sum of £120 ($319.80), and have it laid off for the town, at which date Philadelphia had been founded forty-eight years; Charleston, South Carolina, fifty years; St. Mary’s, ninety-six years; Boston, 100 years, and New York, 116 years.”
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 11
• Dates: 1732
  Notes: “Dr. Geo. Walker assists as commissioner in laying off Jones Town on the east bank of the Falls.”
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 11
• Dates: 1732
  Notes: Dr. George Walker assists in laying off “Jones Town,” on the east bank of the Falls, “where Edward Fell kept store” (August).
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 650
• Dates: 1743
  Notes: “Dr. Geo. Walker obii, aet. 54(?)”
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 12
• Dates: 1743
  Notes: Death: Dr. George Walker, at Baltimore.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 650