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

, 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

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

Assessment Lists and Other Doc- uments of Lancaster County Prior to the Year 1729. About the only original Lancaster county manuscript documents, now known, dating before 1729 are: A cer- tified copy of the petition for the erec- tion of our county, signed in 1728; the letters, drafts, surveys and