Saturday, January 4, 1812
At Albany by the Rev. Mr. Neill, the Rev. William R. Weeks of Plattsburgh
to Miss Hannah Randell, daughter of Mr. Jogn Randell, of the town of Colonie.
Wednesday, January 8, 1812
The Rev.
Willard Preston settled as pastor of the Congregational church at St. Albans,
Vt., where he remained until September 1815 when his health compelled him to
seek a milder climate to the sorrow of his people who twice afterwards solicited
his return.
Saturday, January 11,1812
Married: By the Rev. Mr. Halsey, Samuel Buell, Esq., Collector for the District of Vermont to Mrs. Julia Platt, daughter of
Peter Sailly, Esq
Thursday, January 16, 1812
In the east room of the Delord house by the Rev. Frederick Halsey, Maria Ketchum Averill, eldest daughter of Nathan, Jr., and his
wife Polly Ketchum Averill and a niece of Madam Delord, and Reuben Hyde Walworth, a young and promising lawyer (afterwards, the
last Chancellor of the State) were made man and wife.
Friday, January 17, 1812
The officers belonging to Major Thomas Millers'
Regiment, will rendezvous at the Union Coffee House, in the Village of
Plattsburgh, on the seventeenth day of January next, at ten o'clock in the
forenoon.
By order of Major Thos. Miller, Commandant
Isaac C. Platt, Adjutant
Plattsburgh Republican, Dec. 27, 1811
Monday, January
27,
1812
On this
date, Julius C. Hubbell, having in 1808 hired a room in a house in Chazy and
begun the practice of law, later hired the whole house and married Ann Moore,
daughter of Judge Pliny Moore of Champlain.
He brought his bride to the home he had prepared on horseback on a
Pillion and there their first three children were born.
Tuesday, March 31, 1812
In Plattsburgh town records was recorded the laying out by Smith and David
Broadwell, commissioners of highways, of Hamilton, Jay and Washington streets.
Saturday, April 4, 1812
The Trustees of the Presbyterian Church, Plattsburgh, made an agreement with Ichabod Fitch, to frame and raise the building for $500.
Sunday, April 26, 1812
"After sermon, Jonathan Scribner, Seth Rice, (from the Congregational
Church in Westford, Vt.) William Pitt Platt, and Thomas Treadwell, Jr., were
ordained ruling Elders and Benjamin J. Mooers Deacon in this Church according to
the forms of the Presbyterian Church." -Church Records.
Through Elders Hubbard, Stratton, Treadwell, and
Scribner, lived north of Plattsburgh in Beekmantown the records show their
faithful attendance at meetings of the session.
Saturday, May 9, 1812
Catherine Kilburn Marsh, daughter of George and Polly (Buel) Marsh, formerly from Litchfield, Conn., and Gilead Sperry from Manchester, Vt., were married by the Rev. Frederick Halsey. Catherine street was so named in honor of Mrs. Sperry, because her husband gave to the village that portion of the street which ran through his property.
Sunday, May 24, 1812
The Union Academy was opened in Peru under the direction of Chauncey Stoddard and Mary Rogers, for the instruction of pupils in the usual branches. Tuition was $2 per quarter, but for those studying grammar, the service was $2.50. Board in respectable families could be obtained for $1.20 per week.
Thursday, June 4, 1812
Horace Bucklin Sawyer of Burlington entered the Navy of the United States as a midshipman and was at once ordered to the Eagle (Lieut. Sidney Smith), which cruised in company with the Growler (sailing master Jairus Loomis) protecting American interests on Lake Champlain
Thursday, June 18, 1812
Charles Theodorus Platt, son of Judge Theodorus Platt, was appointed a midshipman, U.S.N. and in accordance with the general orders of this date the 8th Regiment, New York Detached Militia was raised in the counties of Clinton and Essex for the service of the United States. The 8th was commanded by Lieut. Col. Thos. Miller of Plattsburgh, 1st Major; Ransom Noble, of Essex, 2nd Major; Levi Platt of Plattsburgh , Adjutant; Richard S. Mooers, of Plattsburgh, Quartermaster; John Palmer of Plattsburgh, Paymaster; Benjamin Mooers, of Plattsburgh, Surgeon; Henry Waterhouse, of Plattsburgh, Surgeon's Mate; Frederick Halsey of Plattsburgh, Chaplain; Jeremiah Graves, of Plattsburgh, Sergeant Major.
Friday, June 26, 1812
You will proceed with the military stores and articles direct to Whitehall on Lake Champlain, from whence you will transport them, together with the cannon ball belonging to the state, lying at Whitehall, to Plattsburgh and Essex arsenals. If an immediate conveyance by water cannot be obtained, you will proceed by land with the articles for Plattsburgh through Vermont to Burlington, and from thence send for Gun Boats and other vessels from Plattsburgh, and from the proper point on Vermont shore send across those for Elizabethtown, Essex county. Orders of Gov. Tompkins from Albany, to Maj. John Mills, Washington county.
Monday, June 29, 1812
Capt. Sanford of Wilmington, then Jay, was selected "as an officer of approved merit and capacity" to command a company in the 8th regiment, detached militia, which served six months on the Canadian frontier at Chateaugay and French Mills.
Sunday, July 12, 1812
Eight companies of the Vermont militia under Co. Williams are quartered in the new barracks, east of the "green" at Swanton. The barracks are build in the form of a crescent with a parade ground at the north-west.
Friday, July 17, 1812
The news of the declaration of the second war between the United States and Great Britain reached this county a month after the event. About this time Col. Isaac Clark of the Eleventh U.S. Infantry, and a veteran of the Revolution, arrived at Burlington to make the necessary preparations. He was a son-in-law of Gov. Thomas Chittenden and was known as "Old Rifle" among the Green Mountain Boys. For the government he bought ten acres on a bluff overlooking the lake, the present Battery Park being a part of the same.
Wednesday, August 12, 1812
David B. McNeil was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of New York by Chief Justice James Kent (afterwards Chancellor). In 1814, David now Captain, McNeil was with the Essex County militia called out by Murray's invasion; was at Fort Cassin when that fort was attached by British gun boats and, by the first of September, was again at Plattsburgh and on continuous duty until after the battle, serving as adjutant-general on Gen. Mooers' staff.
Wednesday, September 16, 1812
Macdonough after a four day' journey on horseback,
attended only by a boy who was to return the horse, arrived in Burlington.
Eleazer Williams returns to Plattsburgh after a trip to Chateaugay, Turner's Inn and French Mills (where he had a secret conference with the Indian chiefs whom he harangued and to whom he gave money, obtaining promises of adherence to the American cause). On his return he dispatched a confidential messenger to Sault St. Louis and had a conference with Gen. Bloomfield in which "we agreed that if we can bring them (the British Indians) over to the American side, it is proper and justified."
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