land car- riage, which became heavier through the want of suitable roads for car- riages to pass. That there are no public roads leading to Philadelphia yet laid out through their county, and those in Chester county through which they now pass, are in many places incommodious. And therefore praying

Donegal in the Revolution Patriotism and Piety, A notable historic event in the his- tory of Lancaster county, binding the present to the past by an enduring chain of events, was the unveiling of a monument in Old Donegal church- yard, on Thursday, October 4th, 1899. This interesting memorial shaft

of all the men who lived and died in this city and couhty be- tween 1730 and 1825 there is hardly one who has left behind him an auto- biography, memoir or diary of the events that fell into the first hundred years of our recorded history. There is so much that we would like to know, so much of

, December 4th and 5th, when the declaration of the vote was made in triplicate, and the copies disposed of according to the provisions of the Constitution of the United States, and all the other neces- sary accompanying documents pre- pared, signed and delivered. That the copy present to-day is the one

nothing left to be said on the subject. From the earliest period of its history distinguished men made journeys to that monastic community to learn whether the re- ports that from time to time reached the outer world were correct, and, coming away, recorded what they saw and heard, and these long-ago

came here from Chester county, and at first established his trading post in the northwestern part of the county, probably in Donegal township. His wife, Martha, was an English woman, a zealous member of the Church of England, and was largely instrumental in the erection of St. John's Episcopal Church

generous consid- eration. The Rev. Thomas Barton, pastor of St. James' Episcopal Church, in Lancaster, was one of these. His loyalist proclivities were not dis- guised nor denied. But he was a man of high character and took no part in the contest going on. He was allowed to sell his property and retire

Lancaster and her people are taken. He remained in the west only a few years as we find him installed as the pastor of a Congregational Church at North Hampton, N. H., on November 13, 1776. He remained there until Au- gust, 1785, when he was dismissed at his own request. In 1786 he was called to a church at