Wednesday,
January 11, 1769
The English government issued a mandamus for 30,000 acres of land, lying on the west side of Lake Champlain, to
be surveyed to Count Charles de Fredenburgh, a German nobleman who had been a captain in the British army.
Thy verdant
banks, thy lucid stream,
Lit by the sun's resplendent beam,
Reflect each bending tree so light
Upon thy bounding bosom bright.
-Margaret Miller Davidson
Wednesday, April 5, 1769
William Kelley, in behalf of Lord Viscount Townsend and twenty-four associates, petitioned for a grant of 25,000 acres, bounded east by Cumberland Bay and extending west on both sides of Saranac River, including the land covered by the warrant of survey of Jan. 27, 1768.
Friday, June 30, 1769
Jonas Platt, second son of Judge Zephaniah Platt and Mary VanWyck, was born in Poughkeepsie. His preparatory studies were taken at a French Academy in Montreal and his legal training was under Richard Varick of New York. Soon after his admission to the bar, in 1790, he married Helen Livingston. The active life of Judge Platt was spent in the Mohawk valley where he held many high offices, including that of Judge of the Supreme Court. He was also General of Cavalry in the State militia. After the loss of his judicial position through the amended provisions of the State Constitution, he opened a law office with his oldest son, Zephaniah, at Utica. In three or four years, he returned to the practice of his profession in New York but advancing years led him to retire in 1829, to his farm in Peru, seven miles from Plattsburgh, where he spent his remaining days.
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