Monday, September 4, 17751775
Friday, March 17, 1775
The inhabitants of Willsboro agreed upon regulations concerning roads, fences, bridges and hogs, declaring these "to be binding on us respectively by every Tie of honor and honesty for the space f twelve months from this date." The signers were: Will Gilliland, Thomas Day. Martin Armstrong, Ebenezer White, Nathaniel Blood, Jonathan Flint, Thomas Day, William Cammeron, Jotham Gardner, Jacob Garner.
Tuesday, April 11, 1775
Resolutions were adopted at Westminster, Vt., foreshadowing plans for the erection of a new royal province combining the disputed territory (New Hampshire Grants) and adjacent New York lands west to lake Ontario, with Skenesborough as capital. Such men as Col. Allen, Bird and Col. Skene were interested but the outbreak of the Revolution put an end to all such plans.
Wednesday April 26, 1775
Edward Mott of Preston, Conn., was appointed Captain of the 7th Company, in the 6th Conn. Rgt., commanded by Col. Samuel Holden Parsons.
Thursday, April 27, 1775
Col. Parsons, of Connecticut, was on his way from Oxford to Hartford when he fell in with Capt.. Benedict Arnold, hurrying from New Haven to Watertown, intending to obtain a commission from the Provincial Congress assembled there. Arrived at Hartford, Parsons consulted with five other gentlemen and securing L300 they sent off two men, Romans and Noah Phelps of Simsbury, on their way to the grants.
Sunday, April 28, 1775
Edward Mott arrived at Hartford and was at once invited to become one of the committee in charge of the expedition against Ticonderoga and crown Pint, which had been set on foot by Gentlemen connected with the General Assembly. David Wooster, Silas Deane and Noah Phelps were also members. Mott took 15 men from Connecticut, raised 39 in western Massachusetts and set out for Bennington. There Capt.. Mott was made chairman of the committee which made Allen military commander of the expedition.
Tuesday, April 30, 1775
Mott overtook Romans and Phelps at Salisbury and the party, consisting of sixteen men, held on together northward. At Sheffield, they sent tow men Halsey and Stephens, to Albany to discover the temper of the people there. They reached Pittsfield the next day and lodged at Col. Easton's. -Scribner's History
Sunday, May 7, 1775
Ethan Allen with a band of two hundred and seventy men and Benedict Arnold with a Colonel's commission from the Committee of Safety of Massachusetts, authorizing him to raise a regiment of four hundred men, met at Castleton, Vt. to lead an expedition to the surprise of Ticonderoga.
Monday, May 8, 1775
Main body of troops under Allen and Arnold left Castelton to proceed by land to a point opposite Ticonderoga. At the same time, Capt. Herrick was sent to seize the small fort at Skeenesborough, take the vessels collected there, and meet Allen and transport his party across the lake.
Tuesday, May 9, 1775
Allen's party reached the shore of the lake opposite Ticonderoga early in the evening, and Herrick, not having arrived, had to procure a supple of boats in the neighborhood. A large oar boat belonging to Major Skene, was seized by James Wilcox and Joseph Tyler, while other boats were procured from other quarters. In the meantime, Capt. Herrick captured young Major Skene, twelve negroes and about fifty dependents or tenants without firing a gun; took a large schooner and several small boats, afterwards joining Allen at Ticonderoga.
Wednesday, May 10, 1775
As day began to dawn, but 83 of Allen's men had crossed the lake and the commander of the Green Mountain Boys resolved to wait no longer. While the boats were sent back for the rear divisions, under the guidance of young Nathan Beman, whose home was on the opposite shore at Shoreham, the intrepid party entered the fort by a covered way, and the surrender of the surprised garrison resulted in a few minutes, about four o'clock in the morning. The prisoners were the first of the Revolution and the cannon captured, drawn by ox-teams to Boston, enabled General Washington to make good his works on Dorchester Heights.
Later, Warner arrived with the remaining troops, and was dispatched with a detachment of men to take Crown Point, but strong head winds drove back the boats and all returned the same evening. It was after the surprise of Ti that the altercations, according to Nathan Beman, occurred between Arnold and Allen, during which the latter became so enraged that he struck Arnold's hat from his head, and the sight of it, gay with tinsel rolling in the mud was never forgotten by the boy eye-witness. Dr. Jones Fay of Bennington was there that day as surgeon and he continued in that position after the arrival of Col. Elmore's Connecticut regiment.
Thursday, May 11, 1775
Crown Point, now garrisoned by a sergeant and twelve men only, captured by Warner and Capt. Remember Baker. The latter with his company had been summoned from the Winooski River settlement by Allen, and on the way had met and captured two boats bound for St. John's with news of the capture of Ticonderoga.
Wednesday, May 17, 1775
At six o'clock Thursday morning, Arnold and his men, after a night of hard rowing in two small bateaux, reached St, Johns. The small garrison was taken with arms and stores, the King's sloop with crew of seven men, two brass six pounders, and four bateaux, while five were destroyed leaving no boat for pursuit. Two hours later, the daring band started for Ticonderoga on the captured sloop, re-christened the Enterprise. Their own vessel, the schooner captured at Skenesborough they had left becalmed thirty miles above St. Johns.
Thursday, May 18, 1775
Arnold and his party reached Crown Point on the King's sloop captured at St. Johns, and now called the Enterprise. On the way they had met Allen's party going north.
Friday, May 19, 1775
English troops at St Johns fired upon Allen's party with six field pieces and two hundred small arms. This fire Allen returned but, realizing the superior numbers of the enemy, hastily re-embarked for Crown Point.
Sunday, May 21, 1775
Allen's party reached Ticonderoga in the evening and found Arnold's party had arrived two days before.
Tuesday, May 23, 1775
Birth at Harford, Conn., of Ann, daughter of John and Ann (Skinner) Withman.
This day, be it sacred: Ye sprints of air:
Who guarded the couch of the infant so fair-
-Mrs. Margaret M. Davidson.Ann Whitman became the wife of Timothy Balch of the same place, who, about 1802 settled at Plattsburgh (now West Plattsburgh). Both were members of the First Presbyterian church.
Thursday, May 25, 1775
Nehemiah Hobart was born. In 1795 he married Lydia Randall, aunt of Postmaster-general Randall and in 1801 they became pioneers in Peru. At the battle of Plattsburgh he served as a militiaman: a worthy son of his sire, Daniel Hobart, the first martyr of the Revolution from Ashburnham, Mass.
Wednesday, June 7, 1775
Allen wrote to congress: "I would lay my life on it, that with fifteen hundred men I could take Montreal."Saturday, June 10, 1775
Jonathan Lynde of Westfield, Mass., enlisted in the Continental Army- the first of three separate enlistments. He married Mollie Franklin, a niece of Doctor Franklin and removed to Willsboro where he died. His son John Lynde, born in 1788, lived in Plattsburgh, was admitted to the bar in 1812 and made first judge of the county in 1827, holding the office until his death in 1831. The Lynde homestead was next to that of Judge Charles Platt on Broad street (now No. 14).Wednesday, June 14, 1775
Wm. Hay engages 100 acres of land to the southward of his present lot. Nathan Nichols engages 300 acres for himself to the southward and adjoining to Wm. Hay's land. Also engages all the land between the farms of Henry Cross and John Byantum. Henry Cross engages 100 acres of land for himself to the southward of his present lot; Wm. Gilliland reserves for his daughter 200 acres of land to the southward of Henry Cooper's lot. John Byantum has engaged 200 acres at Monty's Chantier. Idem
Saturday, June 17, 1775
Birth of Jonathan Griffin, who settled in Plattsburgh where, in May 1802, with Silas Hubbell he was admitted to the Clinton county bar. His home (now 17 Broad St.), became the home of his daughter, Delia A. and her husband, Hiram Walworth, Sr. At the siege of Plattsburgh, both his store and dwelling house were burned by hot shot from the forts. He was prominent in town affairs until his deal July 25, 1841.
Saturday, June 24, 1775
Arnold resigned his commission and Col. Hinman with a thousand men took possession of Ti.
Friday, September 15, 1775
William A Griswold was born at New Marlboro, Mass,
whence, at the age of ten he removed his father's family to Bennington. After graduation
from Dartmouth College, he established himself as a lawyer at Danville, Vt. and soon
acquired a large practice. In 1807 he was elected to the legislature and warmly supported
the bill for the establishment of a state prison, urging the abandonment of the branding
iron, pillory and the whipping post. He was also an active supporter of the war (1813 and
1814). In 1841, he was elected to the legislature from Burlington to which he had removed
and where he remained until his death in 1846.
Saturday,
September 16, 1775
General Schuyler still suffering from the
results of a bilious fever and rheumatism, was obliged to give up all thought of leading
the invasion into Canada and in a covered boat set out for Ticonderoga, about an hour from
Isle aux Noix, meeting with Warner and 170 Green Mountain Boys.
Monday,
September 25, 1775
At Ticonderoga the troops were crowded in
vile barracks and, though provisions, fresh and salt, and spruce beer were plentiful,
tents and hospitals stores were lacking, and 726 men had been discharged since July 20 on
account of illness. The same day Allen, rashly attempting the capture of Montreal with a
handful of Canadian recruits, was captured and sent to England in irons.
September 25, 1775
"I shall set out by land to-morrow morning for Ticonderoga, and proceed
with the utmost dispatch, as knowing our whole dependence for cannon will be
from that post."—Col. Henry Know at New York to Washington at Cambridge.
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