Thank you very much, Len Swindley, for your recent email to this list about escaped convict Patrick Cotton of Tyrone. I am descended from a James Cotton of Tyrone who joined the British Army in the late 1700's. His physical description there is very similar to the one of Patrick you found. So I am assuming the latter is a relation of mine. I will enjoy putting him in my family history now and keeping a look-out for any descendants of his in Australia. I, and members of a Cotton family in New Zealand from Derry, believe we are descendants of Huguenot soldiers named Cottin who settled in Ireland in the 1690's. If so, we seem to have kept up our fighting spirit, don't we? Bartbara Holt (in New Zealand).