John Minchin Lloyd - Who was he...really?

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While I am making my way home,thank you Laurie and Betty so much for your kind comments!

I can't wait to post some more meatier tidbits.

In the meantime, referring to my ?'s about Powell's appearance at the boarding house on the night of April 17th, and why I wondered if he wasn't trying to offer Mary and her guests a means of escape "casually" holding the pick axe innocuously on his shoulder, in addition to his being a powerful man, wouldn't there have been signs that there were military people there? The carriage might not have been there yet, but wouldn't there have been extra army horses there or extra soldiers standing around outside?

Almost as if he came offering assistance and by her oath, she was telling him to stand down? Why would he insert himself into a situation of almost certain capture? Was he really that much out of his element and lost?