 Founded in 1830, the Barnstable Patriot is Cape Cod's oldest newspaper.It was started by Sylvanus B. Phinney, Initially apprenticing under the journalist Nathan Hale at the Boston Daily Advertiser, he moved to the Barnstable Journal in 1828, before founding the Patriot two years later, at the age of 22.A weekly paper, the paper espoused democratic values, with Phinney himself a Jacksonian Democrat.