election of deputies to meet in convention to con- sider the resolves of Congress. Those chosen from this county were : William A. Atlee, of Lancaster, and the second Judge of the Supreme Court under the Constitution soon to be enacted. Lodwick Lowman, who was an officer in the Revolutionary war, and

rapidly going on. Those letters are mounted in folios entitied "Lancaster County Miscellany" and "Taylor Pa- pers", etc., rstn the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia; but that does not stop the fading out of the ink. It is with the greatest diffi- culty even now that some of them may be

Lancaster county, about 1526. About that time, John Fiske tells us, Lucas Vasquez d'Ayllon came from Hispaniola, and "tried the Chesapeake Bay" in search of the northwest passage, and "ob- tained a grant and began to build a town."' But that town was likely south of the Pennsylvania line. Then next, about

. The Pennsylvania Archives, Series VI, vols. 12-13, provides the data on the confiscated estates. Those of Lancaster County follow: Jacob Boyer, Donegal Township, 87 acres, sold to Abraham Ream for 225 pounds in 1781. Nicholas Houssecker (Hunsecker?), Lebanon Township, house and lot, sold to William

papers read before The Lancaster County Historical Society, Vol. 4, p. 144. 23 Hanna, Vol. 1, p. 151. 24Proud,Vol.1,p.430. 25 D. H. Landis, Catalogue and Collection of Indian Curios. 26 History of York County, Pennsylvania, by I. Daniel Rupp, Lancaster, Pa., 1845, p. 543. 27 Hanna, Vol. 1, p. 105. �wick

of Conestoga, for a warrant for these men, but he says the justice only made sport of him, and told him he could not expect any fa- vors in Lancaster county (do. 313). He also charged that John Cartledge offered a reward to any one who would burn Cresap's house, and drive him and his family south (do

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

the ecclesiastical archives of Holland. �Among these investigators the Rev. William J. Hinke, of Philadelphia, was peculiarly successful; and it is due to his untiring research that new light has been cast on the beginnings of the Reformed Church in Lancaster county. In our present paper we shall

the whole of the history of those early times. The following items from the first two newspapers of Pennsylvania give us certain phases of the life and times of our remote ancestors here in Lancaster county: The character of the commerce be- tween Lancaster and Pennsylvania in the infancy of the

further northward and east- ward up the Conowingo and towards the Britain township line of to-day, in 1743 a tract was located by William Montgomery, and remained in the Montgomery family for 100 years, and his descendants still remain there- abouts. This covers the land now owned by Jason Walton, Lindley