1802

Wednesday, January 13, 1802

Anne Treadwell became the bride of Isaac C. Platt whose sister, Margaret Platt, had for several years been the wife of her brother Nathanial Hazard Treadwell.  Their father Judge Thomas Treadwell with his family and about forty slaves had come in 1793 from Smithtown, L.I. to the site on Bay St. Armand, as known to the French, which had been selected by Nathaniel, then a young surveyor, the year before.  But Nathaniel and his wife pushed on to Canada and settled in the Seigniory L'Orignal, a township of some fifty-four square miles which he opened to settlers in 1794.

Monday, January 25, 1802

At Isle La Motte died Samuel Fisk, son of the Rev. Ichabod and Eleanor Roberts Fisk who came from Poultney, Vt. to the Island in 1788.  Samuel Fisk married Polly Scott and built the stone house-the Fisk homestead- now on the Island

Friday, February 20, 1802

 Chesterfield taken from Willsborough.

Tuesday, March 23, 1802

Uriah Palmer and Waterman Eels, commissioners of Highways of the town of Peru, laid out a road described thus "And a road turned from George Shavers E., line thence threw the Bald Plane Near Ferris Mills to the Great River as it is now cut out."