Talk:Thomas Dalton (abolitionist)

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This could use some clean-up; intro is clearly a violation of either WP:NPOV or WP:OR (or both). Once cleaned up, nominate this for a Did You Know? mention ASAP! --Midnightdreary 18:34, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

I am very new and need specific help - any suggestions greatly appreciated -- User:durno11 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Mr. Francis?
The lack of info on "Mr. Francis" suggests his existence is only inferred from the new last name that appears in the Dalton/Lew-Francis marriage records and in the pages of The Liberator. If that is so then we should say so. If there is any info on who this person was we should add that. Joja lozzo  02:07, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

Some refs need work
This article has a number of vague references to vital records and other sources that do not include any locater info like dates, book #, page #, etc. Without these the sources are unverifiable and the related information will need to be removed (or moved to this page until verifiable sources can be provided). Joja lozzo  02:36, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

In addition to locater info, quotations would also be helpful. Joja lozzo  03:46, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

Sorting out items that have citation / source issues
I've started work in my sandbox to try to sort out some of the information about Thomas Dalton's background - specifically the information without verifiable, reliable or complete source information.

If anyone knows more about this than I do and/or wants to join in - feel free - bearing in mind that it's just a working space to gather info, sort out if where there's "good information" and see if we can find good, reliable sources. My sandbox is User:CaroleHenson/sandbox.-- CaroleHenson  ( talk ) 04:43, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

Aunt and uncles
I'm not finding anything that says that Thomas Dalton was the nephew of the following people:
 * Uncle Gloster Dalton in 1785 was one of the eighty-five charter members of the Charter of Compact of the Gloucester Universalist Society, the first Universalist Churches organized in America.
 * His Uncle Scipio Dalton and his wife Sylvia were founding members of the African Society, instituted in Boston in 1796 for the "mutual improvement, protection, and support of the colored inhabitants of this city." Scipio and Sylvia Dalton also helped organize and raise money to build the First African Baptist Church now African Meeting House, dedicated in December 1806 as the first black church in America.

I'm also not sure able this as a source, but at the moment it's secondary to the relationship question.

Does anyone have a reliable source that establishes the relationship between Thomas and his uncles?-- CaroleHenson  ( talk ) 07:16, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

Daltons and Walker / Dewsons
I'm unable to find a reliable source for this:
 * In the late 1830s, Thomas and Lucy Dalton bought a home in Charlestown at the foot of Bunker Hill Monument. Here they continued to campaign for equal rights and justice along with their black neighbors, the Dewson Family.

Which seems to nullify the appropriateness of having this in the article:
 * Alexander Dewson arrived in Massachusetts in the 1830s. Shortly after he arrived he met and married Eliza Butler Walker the widow of black abolitionist David Walker, author of Appeal.
 * In the early 1840s, Alexander, Eliza, and her son Edwin Garrison Walker, moved from Southac Street on the north side of Beacon Hill to Charlestown next door to Thomas and Lucy Dalton.
 * Perhaps it is through Lucy Dalton’s connections in Lowell that Edwin Garrison Walker, one of the first African Americans to become a lawyer in Massachusetts and to be elected to the Massachusetts legislature, met and married Hannah Van Vronker. Hannah was born in Lowell and one of Henry and Lucinda Webster Van Vronker’s three daughters.

Does anyone have a reliable source for the first item without a citation? And, if so, a source for the 2nd, too? — Preceding unsigned comment added by CaroleHenson (talk • contribs) 21:42, 24 April 2013‎