This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/UEB.2ACE/77.1.1 Message Board Post: Your Thomas Bates you talk about in Plymouth< MASS,I have a Thomas BATES in MASS that was in Maine in 1930 then moved back to Mass sometime before 1932. Would love to learn more about your Thomas BATES. MINE is my brick wall, well his father actually is Thomas BATES SR.