, about 1715, and was along Chickies Creek, in the vicinity of Don- egal Spring. These pioneers named their settlements after the places of their birth. Donegal was a great mar- itime country of Ireland, for which reason a great number of our early immigrants sailed from this port. Of the several Scotch

mute reminders of a by-gone era. The history of this institution has been perhaps meager, yet of in- terest withal; and the writer now gladly gives his portion, with other data, for the present paper, prepared in part, also, by him, for a new his- tory of Mount Joy and its surround- ings, issued by the

cheerfully vacate the post, as soon as a regular minister should be secured for these congregations; but, at the same time, asked that he might be placed in such circumstances that, as a regularly constituted minister, he might conduct the holy service in the congregations of Quittophilla, Swatara, Donegal

to the waste paper man,to "raise money for cigars," as Mr. Cope old me. The lists, of course, include only Conestoga (later East and West Conestoga), Donegal and Pequea townships, as these large, partly-or- ganized sections practically included the whole of the Lancaster county re- gion then