Wednesday, January 15, 1766
Will. Gilliland sent hands to complete the road to Eliza meadow which was effected in two days.  Snow 2 feet deep.

Friday January 17, 1766

Sent hands to finish the road to Eliza point which was completed by the 24th Jan., which made it clear from the Mills to Eliza meadow.

Tuesday, January 28, 1766
Will. Gilliland sent 2 men with a team of oxen for hay and they did not return to 1^st February.  This was the first

Saturday, February 1, 1766
All the cattle were brought to Milltown (Gilliland’s settlement on the Boquet) from WM. Luckey’s.
                                                                                                                                        -Gilliland.

Thursday, February 13, 1766
All the stock of sugar and molasses (at Milltown) quite expended. -Gilliland

Saturday, February 15, 1766

All the 8 bbl. pork and 3 carcasses of beef being finished J. W. set out for Crown Point for sweetening which he sent home the 20th. -Gilliland.

Thursday, February 27, 1766

This day J. W. returned from Crown Point having brought I bbl. molasses, a I bbl. pork from thence to Sloop island, whence it was brought by a sleigh and pair from C. Point which was obliged by a sleigh and pair from C. Point which was obliged to insure at 50.  Ayers and King had been for several days absent, some thought they were hunting, others thought they ran off. - Gilliland.

Friday, February 28, 1766

This day Luckey, Hicks and Taylor, - but word being come up that Ayers and King were returned, those 3 went to them.

Sunday, March 30, 1766

this day river thawed, and the sawmill was set agoing. -Gilliland.

Monday, April 14, 1766

The first house erected upon the Gilliland lots for Robert McAuley, on the north bank of Bachellor's Creek.

Tuesday, April 15, 1766

-sent to Crown Point for provs., and get 4 barrels four, and 5 firkins butter - all condemned.  Mr. Chism stayed behind; the others ret'd the 19th, at this time the run away settlers came for their wives, and our red cow with the white face died, having loss'd an old white cow the 23rd March..  -Gilliland

Monday, April 21, 1766

this day Thomas Brady helped C. Belton at his house. -Gilliland.

Saturday, April 26, 1766

-Threw out the fishing seine for the first time in 1766, got only 8 suckers. -Gilliland

Tuesday, April 29, 1766

 J. W. and two other hands went to Crown Point for peas, and retd May 2d, with 4 bbls. condemned, and Wm. Ferris and his wife.  -was taken ill on board the Albany sloop. -Gilliland.

Saturday, May 3, 1766

arrived at Albany, where I was confined to my room, sometimes to my bed, until Saturday. - Gilliland

Thursday, May 8, 1766

The birthday of Liberty Newton, son of Marshall Newton of Shrewsbury, Mass.  Afterwards, both father and son were pioneers of Shoreham, Vt., and the latter, a soldier of the Revolution, later settled at Ticonderoga, where in 1801, he built the first iron forge in the Champlain Valley.

Saturday, May 10, 1766

The Gilliland family set out with the Rev. Mr. Henry of Quebec and his family in separate bateaux.  Mrs. Henry invited little Jane Gilliland, six years old, to accompany her.  At Half Moon the bateau in which were the Henrys, was upset by a projecting tree and the strong current of the river, and little Jane and the two youngest sons of Mr. Henry "went adrift down with the current."  Jane floated about half a mile; one boy, a mile, but was saved by a scrap of bark under his head, which kept his back above water.  The body of the second youngest son was recovered five miles below Albany, 12 days after.

Sunday, May 11, 1766

set the first of our potatoes

                    -this day my daughter (Jane) was taken up at or close by the place she sank.-Gilliland

Monday May 12, 1766

Monday, May 19, 1766

-This day J.W. set out for to meet me, which he did at Stillwater and finding me sick and unable to travel, he returned with Nehemiah Smith, his wife, son and daughter, Archd McLaughlin, blacksmith, Catherine Welch and Betsy Williams, who all arrived at Willsborough, 4 June. -Idem.

Monday, June 2, 1766

--arrived at fort George on that day, in the evn'g.  My illness continuing, detained us all at Fort George for 9 days from the 2nd, to Wednesday. Idem

Wednesday, June 11, 1766
 -put all my stores and embarked on board of Wm. Stoughton's schooner, and having a fair wind arrived this evening at Ticonderoga landing.- Idem.

Thursday, June 12, 1766
--embarked the next day on board the sloop Musquenunge, and in passage of 1 3/4 hours arrived at Crown Point.--Gilliland

Friday, June 13, 1766
   Friday arrived at Crown Point, here my disorders returning, I was confined by my room, often to bed to Saturday.--Idem

Saturday, June 21, 1766

-left Crown Point and the wind being favorable arrived the evening of this day, pretty late at George Belten's where we staid all night. Whilst at Crown Point I accidentally met with Wm. Lucky, who I had taken on my warrent for debt and brought him prisoner to Willsborough (Robt. McAuley, constable), when after reflecting how much he was in my power he agreed to serve me for the amount of his debt and commenced in my emply on the - June, 1766, at 45s per mo. being - days after I arrived here.-Gilliland

Sunday, June 22, 1766

 Sunday, proceeded on our journey, and arrived in Milltown in Willsboro. Miss Eliza Gilliland my spouse being the first lady of our family that landed in Willsborough,-about 1 0'clock this day, I William Gilliland, with my wife, Mrs. Eliza Gilliland, my mother Mrs. Jane Gilliland, my sister Miss Charity Gilliland, my brother, Mr. James Gilliland, my brother, Mr. James Gilliland, my daughter, Miss Eliza Gilliland, my niece Miss Eliza Hamilton, my servant girl Rachel McFardin, and my Negro man Ireland, all arrived at Milltown, in Willsborough, with 2 Bateau loads of stores, having left New York with 22 wagon loads of stores, furniture, &c., on the 28th of April last.-Gilliland

Monday, June 23, 1766

-from this time I continued in an indifferent state of health, sometimes better, sometimes worse to Aug.-. Employed my hands, some making a fence round the garden, some going to Crown Point for prova, some enclosing a yard in front of the house, one 'tother side of the trough, making a bum proof, &c., &c.-Gilliland

Sunday, September 7, 1766

--took observation by the sun at Crown Point (which afterward corroborated by a nocturnal observation) and found it to be 44o 1" 20"; after dinner embarked for home in my Bateau; the Governors and other gentlemen embarking before dinner, in the sloop. Overtook them at Button Mould Bay and went aboard the sloop, where dinner being just served up, I dined with them; there being little or no wind, tarried with them 4 or 5 hours, and pushed off in my boat for home, where I arrived about one in the morning, found all well.
Gilliland

Tuesday, September 9, 1766

-mustered up all my men and set out, all being armed for my lower tract opposite Isle Valcour, in order to build a possession house, at the River St. Aranack, or Cragan river and to oppose Mr. Fredenburgh, should he attempt to make encroachments there; arrived there this evening.
Gilliland
Wednesday, September 10, 1766
-this morning set four hands about building the house whilst myself with the others, proceeded to the Congress, for settling the Latd at Wind Mill Point, having brought 3 shoats, some salmon and a fat calf for the Governors, who thankfully received them, being almost out of fresh provisions; arrived at the Congress this evening pretty late.
Gilliland

Sunday, September 14, 1766
Mr. Gilliland arrived at Willsborough in the afternoon with a birch canoe found on Cumberland Head.Sunday, September 7, 1766
--took observation by the sun at Crown Point (which afterward corroborated by a nocturnal observation) and found it to be 44o 1" 20"; after dinner embarked for home in my Bateau; the Governors and other gentlemen embarking before dinner, in the sloop. Overtook them at Button Mould Bay and went aboard the sloop, where dinner being just served up, I dined with them; there being little or no wind, tarried with them 4 or 5 hours, and pushed off in my boat for home, where I arrived about one in the morning, found all well.
Gilliland

 

Thursday, September 18, 1766
Brought a cock of hay from south meadow, the first this season; this day G. Belton moved to his house at Cloven Rock. - Gilliland

Friday, September 19, 1766
This day Sr. Henry Moore, Col. Reid, Philip Schuyler, Robert Harper and Adolphus Benzel, Esq's, called and drank tea, &c., with us on their return from Astronomer's Island, having completed their observation to satisfaction, and fixed the line about 3 miles to the northward of Wind Mill Point. This day George Belton sowed his first wheat.
Gilliland.

Saturday, September 20, 1766
This day Sr. Henry Moore, Col. Reid, Philip Schuyler, Robert Harper and Adolphus Benzel, Esq's, called and drank tea, &c., with us on their return from Astronomer's Island, having completed their observation to satisfaction, and fixed the line about 3 miles to the northward of Wind Mill Point. This day George Belton sowed his first wheat.
Gililland.

Sunday, September 21, 1766
Jane Willsborough Gilliland, was born this evening between 8 and 9 o'clock; * * Capt. Wharton being then there - Gilliland

November 27, 1766
Gen. Johnson, having dismissed the New England militia, left 600 men to garrison the new Fort William Henry and went into winter quarters.

 

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