Hello Karra: I'm glad to see you're back. Nobody knows Thackston better than you. Maybe we can make some more progress now. I have done little on the Thackston line since I retired in 2000, but I do have a few new things that I can send you.
First, I got a plot of the early land grants in Prince Edward Co. from a distant cousin, Curtis Thackston of Lynchburg, and I adjusted the scale to match modern USGS maps and was able to plot James Thackston's land, and that of all of his neighbors onto a modern map. The fit was amazingly close to modern roads, streams, fencelines, etc. I can send you a Xerox copy, or I could have it scanned onto a disk and send you a copy of that. Nothing I have now is in digital form, except the typescript "The Thackston Family of Tennessee" (1993), which I think you have a copy of. (I also need to update that.) I also got from Curtis a chart of the family of "Theakston of Theakston" (in Yorkshire), which I still believe that we are somehow connected to, as I described in my 1993 edition. I could also have that scanned. It is about two feet by three feet.
My main interest now is discovering the connection between John Thackston, whom you found in Virginia around 1700, to his ancestors in England. Was he really the one baptised in London in 1680, as someone has claimed, or was that someone else? Let me hear from you. Send me your e-mail address and your mailing address and I will send you either of the items I mentioned above, if you want them. My e-mail address is
elt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu.
Ed Thackston