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

EARLY LOCAL HISTORY. Although we may sometimes be in- clined to think we have well-nigh ex- hausted the sources of our history, and that there is little left for pres- ent and future gleaners, the truth is, that is altogether an erroneous and sho rt - sigh ted vi ew of the ca s e . Be - cause there

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

St. Peter's, in Philadelphia, in North America." These letters have an additional inter- est because they were dedicated "To the Honorable James Hamilton." who was four times the Governor of the Pro- vince of Pennsylvania, and nearly con- nected with the Lancaster Hamiltons. The extracts here quoted

denied or set aside, traversed our State from its present northern to its southern boundary, and then passed through the Province of Maryland, and down the Chesa- peake Bay to where it mingles its waters with those of the Atlantic That man was Etienne Brulé (Aye- tee-ane Brulay) a young Frenchman, who

name of Mountjoy at their head they were GENERAL ANTHONY WAYNE. written at the town of that name in our own county. It was not until the paper of Mr. Samuel Evans, on "Col- onel James Crawford," was read be- fore this society that a light dawned upon the question, and I determined �to investigate the