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Rh. The town was named for Lüneberg in Prussian Hanover. Its burghers suffered intensely from exposure and poverty and were in daily terror of massacring Indians. One of the most active pioneers was Leonard Christopher Rudolf whose diary is in the possession of his great grandson, a hardware merchant in Lunenburg. He was born in 1710 and as a young man was attached to the court of the Duke of Wirtemberg, then became scribe to the Privy Counsellor of the King of Poland. A Byzantine prince, son of one who had been strangled at Constantinople for championing the German Emperor, engaged him in the capacity of Secretary. In 1739 the future emigrant to Nova Scotia served in the war of Germany against the Turks and was at a great fight near Belgrade. At the age of forty he forsook courts and battlegrounds for the new lands across the sea. He was employed by Governor Cornwallis to oversee those chosen to clear the wilderness and lay out the town on Malagash Bay. Here he married, became Justice of the Peace and Major of Militia, and fathered nine children. He and his male companions wore round hats, knee buckles and wooden shoes and wore their hair braided and looped with ribbon. Their women spun the thread and wove the cloth for all the garments of the community.

A revival of flax and wool weaving has occurred within recent years. The flax is harvested at the end of the summer. When dried and broken on the