Thursday, February 8, 1759
Marriage of William Gilliland and Elizabeth Phagan, daughter of Mr. Phagan of the island of Jamaica but then residing in New York for the purpose of educating his children. Her marriage dowry was fifteen hundred pounds.
Saturday, April 14, 1759
Pliny Moore, the first English settler in the town of Champlain, was born in Sheffield, Mass. While a drummer boy in the patriot army he was first attracted to the lands where he afterwards settled.
Friday, June 21, 1759
Amherst reached the head of Lake George with an army of 6,000 men, where he remained a month waiting for the remainder of the troops to come up.
Friday,
July 13, 1759
The cannonading of the opposite armies at Quebec continued.
Thursday,
October 4, 1759
From this date until May 25, 1761, rations were issued by the commissary of
the conquering army (English), under Gen. Murray to the Community at Quebec, the bill for
which (1,352) the nuns were unable to pay, but the Mother Superior (formerly Esther
Wheelwright) placed at Gen. Murray's disposal some of the Community's lands.
The same day Rodgers and his party, sent by Gen. Amherst to punish the St. Francis Indians, reached the neighborhood of their village and reconnoitering found the natives engaged in a dance and festivities which lasted until four o'clock the next morning.
This date also, in Pleasant Valley, Dutchess county, to John Roberts, a soldier in this war, and his wife, Susannah Mayhew, was born a son, John, Jr., who was to serve as a drummer boy while father and uncles bore the part of men, when the now loyal colonists should be driven to revolution.
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