This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YOC.2ACE/831 Message Board Post: Thomas Townsend, believed to be born before 1765, known to be resident in Lockeport in 1791 and patriarch of a large branch of Townsends. Circumstantial evidence,the time and geography indicates he was probably a loyalist. Does anyone know if he was actually a Loyalist, British soldier, immigrant from Europe etc. Looking for hard evidence.