organized. The name Lancaster was given to the new county by John Wright, who was born in Lancashire, England. On May 16th, 1730 Andrew Hamilton conveyed, in trust, "three several lots of land in the town of Lancaster" upon which were subsequently erected a court house, city hall, public market and county

GEORGE WASHINGTON IN LANCASTER. By William Frederic Worner. In the "Proceedings" of the Lancaster County Historical Society, Vol. XXVI, No. 10, for December, 1922, is a description of George Washington's visit to Lancaster borough in 1791, at which time he witnessed the celebra- tion of the

America, or were about to do so. In May, 1750, Gottlieb Mittelberger left Enzweihingen, Vaihingen county, for Heilbronn, where an organ was stored ready to be shipped to Pennsyl- vania. With this organ he sailed down the Neckar and Rhine to Rotterdam in Holland, and landed in Philadelphia, Pa., on October

the farmers of this county, who annually send large quan- tities of both these articles to the metropolis [Philadelphia]. The number of wagons continually employed in carrying the produce of this place to market, is incredible. The inhabitants are chiefly Germans, to whose economy, unwearied labor and