Hi List Members, What are hand-cards and card-clothing? William EARLE is my 7th great grandfather. Thanks, Jan Jordan in Northern Vermont   Marcia in TX transcribed: "Leicester, MA, p. 729 Manufacture of Card-clothing" <snip> "Colonel Thomas DENNY and William EARLE made hand-cards on Denny Hill. In 1802 he began the manufacture of cards, hand and machine, on the corner of Main and Market Streets, which he conducted on an extensive scale til his death in 1814."