1782
Saturday, January 26, 1782
In Kinderhook, Columbia County, on a farm afterwards the home of ex-President Martin Van Buren, was born Cornelius Peter Van Ness, son of Peter Van Ness. At fifteen, not caring to study law as his older brother had done, he gave up a college course, but later, he entered the office of his brother William P., at New York as a law student and there had for a companion Martin Van Buren. From his admission to the bar in 1804 until his removal to Vermont in 1806 he practiced law in his native place.
Friday, February 15, 1782
Wm. Irish,
Leonard Owen, Amos Mansfield, Absalom Taylor and Thos. Dewey commenced the
settlement of the township of Milton. They were soon joined by Gideon
Hoxsie, Zebadiah Dewey, Enoch and Elisha Ashley with others.
In
Stephentown, N.Y., to Capt. John Douglas, patriot, and Hannah Brown his wife,
was born a daughter, Abigail. with her parents she removed to Chazy in
1793 and, about 1801, because the wife of John Louis Fouquet who, in 1798 had
opened a small boarding house in Plattsburgh, near the site of the present
Fouquet house. This first building was burned during the battle of
Plattsburgh by hot balls from the fort and the next year (1815) a second house
was built which was destroyed by fire in 1864. This couple had four
children Douglas Louis, Merrit Louis, Hannah Louise and Amherst Douglas.
Wednesday, February27, 1782
Grant of township formerly called Brownington to Samuel William Johnson and his associates.
Friday, April 13, 1782
Birth
at Detroit, Mich., of Alexander Macomb, the future American major-general who
defeated the British under Prevost at Plattsburgh, Sept. 1814.
Wednesday, April 17, 1782
Birth
in Po'keepsie of a seventh son, Levi, to Judge Zephaniah Platt and Mary Van
Wyck, his wife.
