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

by the earli- est adventurers to the Chesapeake, one of whom, Sir James Argol, wrote to England in 1613 that he hoped to make a cut, "between our bay and the Dela- ware." Argol was apparently in the region of Lancaster County nearly as early as Captain John Smith and Stephen Brule. Vol. 4 p. 270