1687

Thursday, September 8, 1687
Gov. Dongan, of New York, in a letter to the king, proposed to build a fort at Corlear's Lake (Lake Champlain), at the pass in the lake 150 miles north from Albany (Chimney Point). Corlear, in whose honor the English and Dutch named the lake, had been very kind to captive French and had ransomed them from the Mohawks and returned them to Canada. He was drowned in the lake a little north of Otter Creek, on his way to visit Courcelles in Canada.

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