Tuesday, April 10, 1810
Daniel Haskel settled over the Calvinistic Congregational church in Burlington
where he remained until 1821 when he was called to the Presidency of the
University of Vermont.
Thursday, April 19, 1810
On Thursday, the people of Burlington, favorable to liberal sentiments in religion, assembled in the Court House (a wooden structure, built in 1802, afterward burned) "to induct into office the man they had chosen for their Christian teacher and guide, Mr. Sam'l Clark." Here, "only 9 days before the Calvinistic party of seceders had with eager haste ordained another minister, (Mr. Daniel Haskel)."
Thursday, May 24, 1810
General Mooers took for a second wife, Elizabeth Addoms, daughter of his neighbor on Cumberland Head, Major John Addoms.
Sunday, June 10, 1810
A "quarterly meeting", was held at "Burdick's" probably at Beekmantown,
near the stone church.
Sunday, September 16, 1810
Death, at the residence of Col. Hawkins, agent for
the Indian Affairs in the Creek department, Crawford county, Georgia, of the Rev. Ichabod
Ebenezer Fisk of Isle La Motte. He was buried on the east side of Flint river near the old
agency. Originally from Milford. Conn. and a graduate of Yale, 1770, Mr. Fisk went from
Poultney, Vt. to Isle La Motte in 1788 as a young surveyor. For his services he received
100 acres of land still in the hands of his descendants. He taught the first school on the
island before 1802, was ordained a minister in the P.E. church and was the author of an
English grammar in verse. His wife, Eleanor (Roberts) Fisk died the preceding year and was
buried on the Island.
Tuesday, September 18, 1810
Death of Cornelia Haring, wife of
Col. Melancton Smith and daughter of Dr. Gardner Jones of New York. For his young wife
Col. Smith had named the new street running west from Margaret, Cornelia, and Elizabeth
street for his sister Elizabeth.
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