Information appears on camp meetings, church business, and Methodist preachers. Also documented are Walker's income and expenditures from cotton and wheat planting and his silkworm business, and Walker's legal actions as executor of his father's and and other's estates. Several entries provide information on slaves holding skilled positions outside the household or fields. Entries also provide many examples of slave resistance. Also documented is Samuel Thomson's method of botanic family medicine, which Walker adopted in the 1830s.
Little information appears on family life or community life.
The family tree documents the Walker family of King and Queen County from the mid 1660s through the 1950s. Thomson, Samuel, 1769-1843. Walker, John, 1785-1867. Received from J. Henley Walker in 1940. Originals of volumes 3-7 returned to donor in 1943.