James Thackston

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, earliest first. See these 9 dated events in the chronology →

1. late 1767 or early 1768 William Johnston and James Thackston go into business as Hillsborough merchants Johnston, a Scottish merchant of means related to the Johnston governors, came to Hillsborough and formed a partnership with James Thackston. Their store stood at the southwest corner of King and Churton streets. People: James ThackstonSearch the index · Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903), p. 7
2. April 23, 1768 Edmund Fanning writes Governor Tryon that Orange is in revolt Two weeks after Regulators rescued a seized horse at Hillsborough, Fanning reported people across the county binding themselves by oath to refuse taxes, and said he and other officers expected an attack. People: Edmund Fanning, William Tryon, Thomas Lloyd (died 1792), Thomas Hart, Francis Nash, James ThackstonLefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 31
3. August 3, 1768 Justice James Thackston reports William Butler vowing not to pay the palace tax Thackston told former sheriff Tyree Harris that Butler said the Regulators would pay nothing toward the governor's house at New Bern for three years, and that some two hundred Regulators had threatened anyone who seized their goods. People: William Butler (Regulator), James ThackstonLefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 29
4. September 24, 1770 Regulators stone Johnston and Thackston's store, where Edmund Fanning took refuge During the riot at the Hillsborough superior court, Edmund Fanning broke loose from the crowd dragging him from the courtroom and fled into the store of William Johnston and James Thackston. The Regulators attacked the building with stones and brickbats and broke everything they could reach. People: William Johnston, Edmund FanningSearch the index · Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903), p. 16
5. September 30, 1770 Hillsborough's leading men write to Governor Tryon for protection after the riot James Watson, Francis Nash, Thomas Hart, Robert Lytle, William Johnston, James Thackston and James Monro wrote from Hillsborough describing the Regulators' insolence at the superior court, said they stood hourly in danger of their lives and estates, and asked Tryon to adopt whatever measures he judged proper. People: Francis Nash, Thomas Hart, William Johnston, James Thackston, James WatsonDocumenting the American South, Colonial and State Records: Letter from James Watson, Francis Nash, et al. to William Tryon, September 30, 1770
6. May 1, 1771 James Thackston raises a company of Orange County militia against the Regulators Thackston raised a company of sixty-two Orange County militiamen, who went on to serve in the Alamance campaign.Search the index · NCpedia: Thackston, James (Arthur C. Menius III, 1996)
7. August or September 1775 The Provincial Congress names Orange County's minutemen and militia officers Orange was to raise three companies of minutemen, and James Thackston was named colonel of minutemen for the Hillsborough district. For the county militia the Congress named John Hogan colonel, John Butler lieutenant colonel, William Moore first major and Nathaniel Rochester second major. People: John Butler, Nathaniel Rochester, James Thackston, Colonel John HoganSearch the index · Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903), p. 51
8. February 1776 Orange County militia under James Thackston hold Cross Creek during the Loyalist rising Militia bound east against Donald MacDonald's Loyalists gathered at Hillsborough, and Thackston's Orange contingent occupied Cross Creek (now Fayetteville), denying the Loyalists a refuge. The rising ended at Moore's Creek Bridge on February 27, 1776, a battle the Orange men did not fight in. People: James ThackstonSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 44
9. September to November 1780 James Thackston gathers Continental recruits and returned deserters at Hillsborough After Gates's defeat at Camden, the Board of War authorized Lieutenant Colonel Thackston to assemble new recruits and repatriated deserters at Hillsborough. By the middle of November he had collected only sixteen men.Search the index · NCpedia: Thackston, James (Arthur C. Menius III, 1996)