observa- tion. Much that has been written con- cerning Donegal Church is unreliable tradition, therefore it is not the purpose of the writer of this sketch to mingle facts with traditional evidence. Modern history hardly affords a par- allel to the cruelty and oppression which caused the early

sister Eliz- abeth and charges her with the care of his negroes, should they fail to make a living. He makes his brother-in-law, John Pawling, executor. Elizabeth Pawling died March 4, 1786. At an Orphans' Court, held at Lancaster, December 17, 1788, Henry Pawling, of Montgomery county (the grandfather