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1783

 

 

Saturday, January 18, 1783

The first deed recorded in Grand Isle is one from William Williams to Capt. Jedidiah Hyde of Norwich, Conn., of a lot of land.  The first surveys were made in that year and the first settlers were Col. Ebenezer Allen, Lambertin Allen and Alexander Gordon about the same time.

Thursday, March 6, 1783

Capt. Twiss is directed by "R. M." in a letter written from Quebec to purchase horse and sleds from the Loyalists who have arrived with them at the Loyal Block House and cannot return on account of bad ice.  -Canadian Archives.

Monday, March 17, 1783

Death of Major James Armstrong Wilson of the Cumberland valley who was captured by a party of observation under Frazier and Scott in July, 1777 but was afterwards exchanged.

Wednesday, September 24, 1783
Daniel Robinson and Thankful Sage of Middletown, Conn. were married. June 12th the groom had been honorably discharged from the Continental army, in which he had enlisted on his eighteenth birthday (May 19, 1775). He was the youngest of the eight children of Benjamin (great-grandson of Elder John Robinson of Leyden) and Jerusha ( Bingham) Robinson. The young couple settled in Plattsburgh near the south end of Margaret street. The river then teemed with salmon trout and Mr. Robinson became an adept at spearing them from the bridge. When the bridge erected about 1797, was carried away by a freshet, Robinson, who was helping remove machinery, was caught an carried down stream as far as Mr. Sailley's ashery, as he said, "on the millstone," which was indeed found where he was rescued.

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