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of this nationality in Nova Scotia before the time of Francklin’s me- 
morial, we have not been able to learn. 
The Ulster Scots settlers in New England brought with them from 
Ireland the impulse for linen weaving that had been one of their chief 
industries before they left their native land. In 1781 the Count de 
Rochambeau who had been sent from France to the assistance of the 
Americans, writes from Boston among many other things concerning 
the city: “The Irish Presbyterians, discontented with their landlord at 
home and attracted by similarity of sentiment, have established in this 
place, with some success, manufactories of linen, and have made at- 
tempts at broadcloths; those that have been lately manufactured are 
close and well woven, but hard and coarse; their hat manufactories 
have succeeded not better than the cloths, they are thick, spongy, and 
without firmness, and come far short of the beauty and soliditary of 
ours.” In Londonderry, New Hampshire, flax was one of the principal 
products of the farms, and the hand-card, foot-wheel, and loom, the 
latter at first worked largely by men rather than as later by women, 
were the commonest implements in almost every home. By the middle 
of the 18th century the Londonderry linens, hollands, and linen threads 
had become so well known and were so excellent that poorer imitations 
of them, claiming falsely to be of Londonderry, were becoming common 
in other parts of New England. So jealous for the credit of their manu- 
factures were the Londonderry people that in 1748 a town meeting was 
called and a vote passed to petition the Assembly for an act to guard 
their manufactures, since other people had passed off “foreign and out- 
landish linens in the name of ours.” It was also voted “that the 
selectmen purchase seals to seal all the linens that are made, or to be 
made, in our town, whether brown, white, speckled, striped, or checked, 
that are to be exposed for sale, and the said sealers shall seal any of 
the aforesaid linens with a stamp in each end of the piece of cloth with 
the words ‘Londonderry, in New Hampshire’”.! In the townships of 
Colchester County, Nova Scotia, where the Ulster Scots settled, the 
flax growing and weaving industry never attained great proportions, 
though a good deal of flax was raised and spun for families’ individual 
use. General farming has always more largely occupied the people 
than manufacture of any sort. 
The following census of Truro in 1770, complied by Richard Upham 
Ksq.,is taken, like that of Onslow,from a manuscript left by the late Mr. 
Israel Longworth. As in the corresponding reports of Onslow and 
Londonderry, the names probably include all the heads of families in 
the township at that time. For convenience sake we give the names 
in alphabetical order: 
1See Parker’s History of Londonderry, N.H., pp. 49, 50. 
