Although I believe that any topic related to people who lived in Rockingham Co. is related to this mail list, I also understand that it is the listowner's perogative to set the limits of discussion. Another mail list, probably more helpful than Northeast-L is the Scotch-Irish list at Scotch-Irish-L-request@rootsweb.com I get very frustrated b/c there seems to be - still, after all these years - a bias against any real discussion of this brave group of eary NH pioneers. Maybe there are just not enough descendants researching this place and time period. They were used by the earlier settlers as a buffer against the Indians and today they are seem to be ignored. My ancestor, Robert CLARK, who came to Londonderry, Rockingham Co. NH, about 1725 (according to Rev. Edward Parker's _History of Londonderry_), was a weaver, as were many others of the Scots-Irish. Since flax weaving was a vital industry in early NH, I would think that any discussion of the process would definitely be on-topic. But, of course, I will defer to the listowner's wishes. To Pat, I have - somewhere - a description of the linen process (not very pretty) and will send it to you when I find it. I would post it to the list, but apparently it would be considered off-topic! Gail -----Original Message----- From: Dick Marston <dick@marston.net> To: NHROCKIN-L@rootsweb.com <NHROCKIN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, February 08, 1999 11:48 AM Subject: Re: Casco Bay, etc. >Apparently a thread is starting to develop here to carry us off-topic to >interesting matters unrelated to Rockingham county, N.H.