(PENNSYLVANIA) Catechising Roll of ye Members of the Congreg

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(PENNSYLVANIA.) Catechising Roll of ye Members of the Congregation of Donnegal. [44] manuscript pages, interleaved with the 84 leaves of the Universal Scots Almanack for . . . MDCCLXXIV (Edinburgh, 1773). 12mo, contemporary calf, quite worn, crudely rebacked at an early date, front board detached; partly disbound, some leaves possibly missing; 1857 inscription of later owner Alexander Reed on front pastedown. Pennsylvania, November 1776

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An extensive list of parishioners for the Donegal Presbyterian Church in Lancaster County, PA, arranged by quarter: Elizabethtown, Big and Little Chickeese, Mill Creek, Mountjoy, Cania, and Meetinghouse. The first is dated November 1776 and the rest are undated. The roll takes up 35 pages, and is followed by 9 pages of church financial memoranda dated 1777-80; one entry dated 22 June 1780 reads "Gave in loan to Mrs. Scott of Continental bills 250 two hundred fifty dollars." Part of the roll was published in "Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical, Chiefly Relating to Interior Pennsylvania" (page 6:183).