This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Thacker/Dalton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XeB.2ACE/3324.1 Message Board Post: This is only a lead. I have researched James S. Dalton who appears for the first time in the 1840 census in Hawkins. These Daltons seem to have come from Louisa County VA and made a stop in NC. They are living among the Thackers, also a Louisa County name. I do not research Thackers and do not know if they connect with these Thackers, but seeing VA birthplaces, this might be a migration route for you to follow.