Happy Holidays, Chris and List, While researching another ancestor, I found the following~~~ "The Farmington, Connecticut Committee of Inspection investigated reports that militia officer Thomas BROOKS was "unfriendly to the constitutional rights of America in June 1776!" Brooks freely admitted that he "could not satisfy himself that the colonies were justified in their present measures and that he could not join them to take up arms." Such "principles and temper," the committee voted, disqualified him from holding a militia office, and it recommended that the General Assembly strip him of that office. Committees repeatedly used the formula of stating the furthest extent of suspicion brought to their attention before indicating that the evidence demonstrated a specific and less serious infraction." ~~~ SOURCE: The Loyalists in Revolutionary America, 1760-1781 by Robert McCluer Calhoon pg. 301 ISBN 0-15154745-9 Can anyone on the list provide additional details of what followed for Thomas? (Note: my computer is still down so I'm checking my email at the library). ~~~Pam