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

, John Clement, 1876-1940. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--1775-1865. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1927 Description: 3-5 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 31, no. 1

Lancaster Journal of Monday, April 27th, 1818, in com- menting on the tragic affair, said, "The damage is, on the whole, not quite so great as at first expected, for the wounded man is said to be out of danger; but in consequence of his sudden fall, the stock of the poor double barrel gun was broken and

West- cott's History of Philadelphia, Vol. 2, p. 864.) So far as I am, at pres- ent, able to discover, it was seventy years later before a representative of this "king of beasts" was seen in Lancaster. We know that in 1797 an African lion was placed on exhibition here, although this may not have been