
Saturday, January 18, 1783
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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