Presbytery. When we consider that Donegal Church was founded less than a score of years after the organization of the first Pres- bytery, the country at the time being thinly settled, the facilities for communi- cation between neighboring settlements difficult and often dangerous, organiza- tion and the

life, while menaced by a savage foe, all to escape from British persecution, intolerance and bigotry. When settled in their new homes, in the Octorara Valley, a common im- pulse seized them, the desire to facili- tate the opportunities for the educa- tion of their children. It was here the British laws

, and he was encouraged to undertake a second term. This also proving satisfactory, he had by this time become so thoroughly attached to the school and children that he re- solved to continue a teacher. Many methods were introduced for the improvement of his pupils and to place the school on a better