Too young to have had much if any military service in the Revolution, but he was placed in command of a company when the militia was organized in 1796. Three years later he was appointed a member of the county court, and in 1802 was one of three men nominated as a “fit and proper person to be commissioned” as sheriff - 1804-1805. Was chosen to represent the county in the General Assembly in 1809. He belonged to the old Jeffersonian wing of the party and was reelected every year until 1816, when he and his colleagues were defeated by the Jackson wing in one of the closedt policatl battles in Tidewater Virginia. Times were not prosperous and voters thought that a change of administration would bring a return of prosperity, but the opposite happened and times got worse. The newcomers were thrown out and Humphrey Walker and his jeffersonian colleagues were returned to the legislature, where he was serving when he died. It is said that the legislators wished to attend his funeral in a body, but his widow insisted that the roads were to bad for so many to make the long trip to K&Q. 8


Lived at Locust Grove

Godfathers: Humphrey Hill and Joe Temple
Godmothers: Mary Temple and Hester Cowne

In 1819 K&Q Tax Books reported that he had 745 acres.