as it touched Lancaster County. The area at that time was served with four local dailies and it may be of interest to look at the political complexions of these newssheets. The oldest was the Intelligencer which had its beginning in 1799. During the years that James Buchanan was aspiring to the

, John Wright, a Quaker, and Thomas Edwards, a Welsh settler, over the court held in Lancaster at Postlewaite's Tavern, in 1730, says Samuel Evans in a paper in Volume IV of the Lancaster Historical Society's Journal. From the time Andrew Galbraith was elected to the General Assembly, the Pres- byterian

ANN LETORT The second in a series on noteworthy women in Lancaster County history, this article on Ann Letort by Marian Wallace Reninger brings new attention to the courage and versatility of pio- neer women. Ann Letort was a French Huguenot who came to America with her husband James in 1686. They

Justice of the Northampton County Courts, John Joseph Henry who was Judge of the Courts of Lancaster County and Benajmin West Henry, an artist of some merit, who died young. Ann Wood Henry died on March 8, 1789, after 66 full and active years. She was buried in the Moravian Cemetery beside her husand

-Masonic State Con- vention by predicting a short life for the "demagogues" in an article in the Lancaster Journal. That paper also printed the following resolution adopt- ed at a County Meeting of the friends of Jackson and Wolf (Ritner's Demo- cratic opponent) on July 15, 1829: "Resolved, that this anti