Mary A Peterson submitted an article, "British West Florida: Abstracts of Land Petitions," in several numbers of the Louisiana Genealogical Register (Vols. IVIII and XIX). In the section in Vol. XIX, No. 2, June 1972, she lists the following: "LOOFBARROW, John 23 March 1776 100 a. fam. ri. [family right] 100 a. bounty on Castang Bayou. Wife, 5 children. Was an artificer from New York." "LOOFBARROW, Thomas 23 March 1776 100 a. fam. ri. 100 a. purchase on Castang Bayou. Artificer from New York. Declared loyalty to Britain." I don't have the full text of the article, but somewhere I got the idea that Castang Bayou was just north of Lake Ponchartrain. Doesn't appear to be our Thomas, but it was fun speculating for a while. Archie Hoffpauir hie Hoffpauir