At 10:07 PM 1/26/2003 -0500, you wrote: >Hi Nedra, > >Could you please post the following message to the Pendleton email exchange >group? Thank you. > > >I have made a significant change to the Thompson Family manuscript that I >have been selling for a number of years. However, I know that there are >multiple "pirated" copies floating around out there; a consequence of such >copies is that the owners do not always get the benefit of updated and/or >corrected information. In addition, I know that such information from a >manuscript gets entered/submitted to various Internet databases and >websites; these seldom, if ever, get amended or corrected. So, I want to >post this so that all may know an important change to their possible lineage. > >Many descendants from the Pendleton County Thompson family descend via >William "the Saddler" Thompson (1787-1856), who was a son of David and >Elizabeth Thompson of Orange and Madison Counties, VA. I have previously >reported in the Thompson manuscript that the maiden name of David >Thompson's wife Elizabeth was BROCKMAN. I now realize that I based that >conclusion on an assumption, and a force-fit of the scant evidence. I now >realize that there is NO EVIDENCE from the study of David Thompson's life >and family that supports my prior claim that HE was the David Thompson who >married Elizabeth Brockman in 1784 in Orange Co., VA. To the best of my >knowledge, I am the sole source for that mistaken claim/identification. >Upon realizing my mistaken assumption, I was able to find abundant >circumstantial evidence to suggest that the David Thompson who m. Eliz. >Brockman was of the Louisa Co., VA Thomsons, of no known relation to the >Thompsons who eventually migrated to Pendleton County. As a result, and >based on the clarity of NO EVIDENCE, the Pendleton County Thompson >descendants have no Brockman lineage, and such should be removed from >family group sheets, ancestral charts, and computer databases. At this >time, the maiden name of Elizabeth, the wife of David Thompson, is unknown. > >I have written a two-page summary of this mistake and the circumstantial >evidence that connects the Lousia County Thomsons to the Brockman family. >This has been mailed to those persons who purchased the manuscript. >However, to repeat, I wanted to make sure that as many as possible are >aware of this change. > > >Jeff Carr >Palmyra, VA