Tuesday, January 24, 1804
Death of Lieut. Peter Roberts (a descendant of Gov. Thos. Mayhew
of Nantucket) who located in Plattsburgh, coming from Manchester and
Dorset, Vt. as early as 1800. He built his home on Lot No. 1, near the foot of
Boynton avenue. In 1768 he was in the militia of Dutchess country, where he married his wife, Jane Baker. He was with
Ethan Allen at the taking of Ti; with Warner in 1775-76 on his Canadian
expedition and at Bennington, etc.
Tuesday, March 13, 1804
Birth in Champlain of Lemuel, second son of Reuben and Lois (Smedley)
Stetson. Lemuel Stetson became a law student in the office of Judge Julius
C. Hubbell of Chazy and later in that of Judge Lynde of Plattsburgh. After
his admission to the bar he removed to Keeseville where he was "one of the
lights of the Keeseville bar" until the spring of 1848.
Tuesday, March 20, 1804
Chazy and Mooers were set off from Champlain. The name of the former was
from Chasy, an officer of the Carignan regiment, and that of the latter, from
Lieut.. Benj. Mooers, first permanent settler of the county. Sieur de
Chasy was stationed a the new for of St. Anne when, in June, 1666, ambassadors
from the Mohawks and Oneidas, stopped there, bound on a peaceful mission to
Quebec. The outlook was so favorable that the French officers relaxed
somewhat their usual vigilance, and Chasy, with some of his brother officers and
men, went on a hunting and fishing trip in the neighborhood. Here, they
were met by a group of "Iroquois of the Agniers tribe" and Chasy, who
was a nephew of M. de Tracy, the viceroy with whom the Indian deputies were then
conferring, was killed with de Travesy, while the rest were made
prisoners. The news of this tragedy, reaching Quebec, put an end to all
negotiations and resulted in the expedition of M. de Sorel against the Mohawk
villages.
The same date, Schroon, named from the Duchess of Scharon,
and Ticonderoga (Brawling Water) were organized.
Thursday, March 29, 1804
Saranac, formed from Plattsburgh.
Monday, April 2, 1804
At Peru Landing, died John Craig, Sr., a Scotchman who had first settled in
Canada. In 1801, he had married Lodema Ransom, daughter of John of
Cumberland Head. Their only child, John Craig, Jr., was then but a few
months old.
Monday, June 4, 1804
Birth in Granville, Washington country, N.Y., of J. Douglass
Woodward, son of William Woodward, a captain in the Revolution with Washington
at Valley Forge. At the early age of nine, dependent upon his own energies
for success, he came to Plattsburgh to attend the old Academy. There, he
attracted the attention of Reuben H. Walworth, who could well appreciate the
efforts of the studious lad to make the most of his opportunities. In the
law office of Judge John Lynde and afterwards,
through life the untiring energy and industry of the man was displayed and his
pure life and practical efforts in behalf of Plattsburgh (especially in the
laying out and improvement of streets) should not be forgotten. From his
son and daughter, William and Helen streets are named.
