1799

Friday, March 1, 1799

Essex County formed from Clinton.

Friday, April 19, 1799

Charles Barnard, son of Joseph and Margaret (Moore) Barnard, born on Cumberland Head in a house on the Benjamin Mooers property.  As a boy of fifteen, he witnessed the battle of Plattsburgh and during the engagement a cannon ball passed through his home.  After the battle Gen. Mooers took him, a barefoot boy, on  board one of American vessels where the blood upon the deck spattered upon his feet.
 

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