provincial churches, and Donegal is the eighth on the list which have had a continuous exist- ence from the date of organization to the present time. The first settlement of Scotch-Irish, or Ulster Scots, occupied the post of danger on the Northwest, within the boundaries of Lancaster county, then Chester

, president of the Farm- ers' (now Trust Company) Bank, and who built "Wheatland," the residence in after years of James Buchanan, the fifteenth President of the United States. Robert Jenkins,the iron-master, was of scholarly attainments and a gen- tleman of the old school. The writer has in his possession a

and White Oaks, in Lancaster, and to Vincent in Chester county. At Muddy Creek he drew up a Confession of Faith for the congrega- tion. In June, 1743, he organized the congregation in Donegal, and in October of the same year administered the Lord's Supper according to the ritual of the Reformed Church

. Thomas Burrowes, the clockmaker, was born in County Cavan, Ireland, and, coming to this country, landed first in Delaware, in 1784, and came thence to Lancaster county in 1787. He had been educated for the Episcopal ministry in Ireland, but never entered the ministry. His- tory states that he settled at

, 1749 and 1752. James Whitehill was born Febru- ary 1, 1700, in Ireland. He was mar- ried twice, but his first wife's name is not known. He married, secondly, Rachel Creswell, who died on the 29th of June, 1795. James Whitehill died February 2, 1766. They were buried in Pequea Presbyterian Churchyard

). The political leaders at this time in our county were John Wright, Samuel Blunston, Robert Barker, Tho- mas Edwards, Andrew Galbraith, An- drew Cornish, Joshua Low, Samuel Jones, Tobias Hendricks, John Mus- grave, Caleb Pearce, Edward Smout, James Mitchel (Donegal) and George Stuart. 1733. In the