Hi Bob, I have no idea where you found such directions. To start a new thread, paste scotch-irish@rootsweb.com in the TO field of your email program. Fill in a subject and type in the body (text only). Perhaps one of the problems is this isn't a board. This is an email list. If you were trying to post to an email list using directions to post to a board, that won't work at all. This is the public page for this LIST: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/NIR/Scotch-Irish.html I note that the word 'board' doesn't appear in it anywhere. So I think that's the problem -- this is a cow, not a horse or rather a email list, not a board. With an email list the posts appear in your email inbox. Not on a webpage, unless you use a web browser-based email client (like me), in which case it still appears in your email inbox. Sometimes people think this is a 'site', but a 'site' is a webpage. This ain't. It's an email. Our host Rootsweb is a website, though. But it has thousands of email lists. And boards. And much much more besides! Linda Merle ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Lindsay" <rglindsay@comcast.net> To: scotch-irish@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, 31 January, 2012 2:26:31 PM Subject: Re: [S-I] Thoughts on replying to an American etc letter Hello List: Page three of "IRISH IMMIGRANTS IN THE LAND OF CANAAN" refers to a David Lindsey and a letter he wrote from County Tyrone in 1758 to his Fleming cousins in Pennsylvania (really New Jersey). Accumulated evidence suggests that this man is my gggGrandfather David Lindsay. Because I (after much looking) was unable to initiate a new thread, I'm adding this post in reply form. If this County Tyrone David Lindsey (or you may be a descendent of Malcolm Fleming) is perhaps of interest to you, let me know as I have 'stuff' to share! Linda, the "Start a new thread" instructions are: To post a new message on any board, click on the "Begin New Thread" link in the upper portion of the screen. This can be done at the home page of any board or when viewing a specific message on a board. I simply could not follow these instructions . . . send help! Bob Lindsay Email Checked by Norton -----Original Message----- From: scotch-irish-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:scotch-irish-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Hugh Nevin Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 6:24 AM To: scotch-irish@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [S-I] Thoughts on replying to an American etc letter Hello Tom, The book is IRISH IMMIGRANTS IN THE LAND OF CANAAN: LETTERS AND MEMOIRS FROM COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA, 1675-1815. It is written and edited by Kerby A. Miller, Arnold Schrier, Bruce D. Boling, and David N. Doyle. Oxford University Press published it in 2003. Perhaps the best brief description of the book is in this Preface paragraph: "Each of the book's chapters focuses on one or more specific immigrants and on the documents they wrote or dictated. Thus, the chapters constitute a series of historical essays, each can stand alone, but together they represent at once the disparate character, the common themes, and the mosaiclike texture of early Irish migration." I did not find Spier/Speer in the Index. Regards, Hugh On Jan 22, 2012, at 6:39 AM, Tom Speer wrote: > Hugh, > I am trying to trace the origin of a gggrandfather William Speer whose > tombstone in Donegal gives his date of birth as 1781and age 84 years. He > was a presbyterian who lived at Ballyboencuragh on the Ramelton road from > Letterkenny. An 1847 survey of the then Manor Grove Estate shows a William > Spier Sen. (and a William Spier Jun.) as tenants of part of Ballyboencuragh. > I should appreciate details of the book to which you refer as it seems > relevant. Thank you and kind regards. > Tom Speer > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Hugh Nevin" <hnevin@nycap.rr.com> > To: <scotch-irish@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 3:50 PM > Subject: Re: [S-I] Thoughts on replying to an American etc letter > > >> Joe and Linda, >> >> I happened to be online as Linda's reply came in. I've just looked >> quickly at the County Donegal listings in the Index of Irish Immigrants. >> I didn't see the specific phrase. Of the two references that caught my >> eye, the following (p. 107) seems a possible reference: "By at least the >> 1720s the fertile parishes of east Donegal,...were a major source of >> Presbyterian emigration that continued and perhaps accelerated after the >> American Revolution." >> >> Hugh Nevin >> >> On Jan 21, 2012, at 10:07 AM, lmerle@comcast.net wrote: >> >>> Hi Joe, actually it is from that book. I am busy and cannot promise you >>> that I will find the time to research this for you. Perhaps try again. >>> Google books is not likely to be useful for searching a book that is in >>> copyright. The traditional way -- reading the book -- or using the index >>> may help and if I get some time, I will try the index. >>> >>> Linda Merle >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Joe Flock" <joe.flock@yahoo.com> >>> To: SCOTCH-IRISH@rootsweb.com >>> Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 6:04:17 AM >>> Subject: Re: [S-I] Thoughts on replying to an American etc letter >>> >>> Hi Linda, >>> >>> Is this in Emigrants and Exiles? Do have the page reference or even the >>> exact phrase? I have the book and have searched it several times but >>> can't find this quote. I even tried using Google books to search it then >>> reading the paper pages for the ones Google isn't displaying and still no >>> luck. >>> >>> >>> Joseph Flock III >>> >>> Linda wrote: >>> >>> Besides all that, Kirby Miller says in his book on Irish emigration that >>> Donegal lost much of its population long before the (recent) Potato >>> Famine. >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message