Rachel Walker
BIRTH
Dec 27, 1745
Boston, Massachusetts
DEATH
June 26, 1813
Boston, Massachusetts
FAMILY
FATHER:
Richard Walker
(1701-1777)
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Walker, Rachel
(1745-1813)
Rachel Walker (1745-1813) was a member of a prominent Revolutionary-era family and the spouse of Paul Revere. Paul Revere was a public official whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected Rachel Walker to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. This life overlapped the Revolutionary era, when war, political upheaval, disrupted trade, military service, and changing governments placed unusual demands on households and extended families. The recorded birthplace at Boston, Massachusetts helps place this family connection within the geography of the Revolutionary Atlantic world. Including Rachel Walker in HistoryGPS recognizes that households, marriages, property, correspondence, hospitality, and kinship networks were essential parts of the world in which Revolutionary leaders acted.
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HUSBAND
Paul Revere
(1734-1818)
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DIED:
Boston, Massachusetts
Jun 26, 1813
Rachel Walker was born on Dec 27, 1745 in Boston, Massachusetts. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Rachel Walker is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Rachel Walker died on Jun 26, 1813 in Boston, Massachusetts. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.