appointed Prosecuting Attorney for Dauphin county, Pa., and was elected three times from the same county to the Pennsylvania House of Representa- tives. In 1814 he was elected to Con- gress, but declined, having been ap- pointed President Judge of the Dau- phin-Lebanon-Schuylkill district. A little later he

mem- ber of the Third Battalion in 1777, and the Seventh Battalion in 1780. He was fifty years old when the war broke out. He served in many important committees in addition to his military duties. He was one of the first in the county or State who advocated in- dependence, and was a delegate to

more joyous pastoral note that she was amid the green pastures and by the still waters of Donegal; and one poem of this pe- riod proves by its title that she was detained on the further—I dare no longer say the York county—shore of the Susquehanna, February, 1807, by the breaking up of the rce. �It may

. His son, John, sold the sarm to C. Graybill and moved to Adams county. I am sorry my health will not permit a more extended sketch of Donegal township and its early settlers, who took the text-oath besore James Bayly, which is on record in the Recorder's office. Rev. Colin McFarquhar's name is not

, Chester county, near the Compass. This road was laid out in 1718, and extended to Logan's Ferry, now Bainbridge. It run through a large settlement of Indian traders at Conoy Creek, and around what is now known as "Stackstown." James Le Tort took up 900 acres below Bizailon, which was put in the name of