January 5, 1816
Death of Sir George Prevost, son of Augustine Prevost (a British general of the Revolution), defeated by Macomb at Plattsburgh, 1814.
Tuesday, March 5, 1816
In an upper room the Academy building the Clinton County Bible Society was organized with Pliny Moore of Champlain, as President; Dr. John Miller as Vice-President; Azariah Flagg, as Treas.; Wm. Swetland, Sec.
Directors.
The Rev. J. Byington and Roswell Ranson of Chazy, David Savage of Champlain, The
Rev. Nathaniel Hewitt, Wm. Pitt Platt, James Trowbridge and Gen. Melancton L.
Woolsey, of Plattsburgh.
Sunday, April 14, 1816
Melancton L. Woolsey and John G. Freligh were ordained Elders of the First
Presbyterian Church under the new pastor the Rev. Nathaniel Hewitt. At
that time the house of worship, begun in 1812, had not been finished and the
Elders, one ant all, gave liberally of their time and substance to the
furtherance of the work. Elder William Pitt Platt, whose sister Mrs.
Abraham Brinckerhoff, had given the site for the building, gave without stint
even mortgaging his home for the cause.
Sunday, April 21, 1816
James Trowbridge was made an Elder of the First Presbyterian Church.
Saturday, May 11, 1816
Henry Buck, son of Ephraim and Mary Buck, a young man of twenty-one was drowned in Lake Champlain. This is but one of many instances where families in the valley gave a child to the waters of the lake. The Thurbers of Rouses Point and Judge Levi Platt's family may be mentioned as examples.
Monday, June 3, 1816
At Highgate, Vt. was born John Godfrey Saxe,
second son of Peter and Elizabeth (Jewett) Sax, second son of Peter and
Elizabeth (Jewett) Sax, his wife. Godfrey Sachs, the great-grandfather,
died in Prussia when his son John, the emigrant, was but fourteen. The
name, anglicized to Sax had the e added during the last half of the
century. John Godfrey Saxe, was an American poet, journalist, and
lecturer, best known, however, for his humorous poems. In 1859 and 1860 he
was the unsuccessful candidate for governor of Vermont.
Thursday, June 6,
1816
On Thursday, the atmosphere at Plattsburgh was filled with
particles of snow and it was uncomfortable out doors without a great-coat, while
in Vermont "the snow fell rapidly, but melted as it fell".
Sunday, June 9, 1816
There was a heavy fall of snow and sleighing was good from
"the city" (Saxe's Landing) to the five Nations (East Chazy). Seth
Graves came out with his big covered sleigh, drawn by four horses, and with Rev.
Mr. Byington, Deacon Wells, Deacon Ransom and others, reined up to Francis
Chantonette's Inn, in grand style"-Old Chazy.
Monday, July 15, 1816
An Academy for advanced pupils was completed at the northwest corner of
College and Willard streets, Burlington, and is now the site of the present
Grammar School.
Thursday, July 25, 1816
In the old Mooers house (corner Bridge and Peru streets) Hannah
Elizabeth, daughter of Col. Benj. H. and Margaret (Miller) Mooers, was born.
Late in life her parents pioneered west to Wisconsin where so many of the
founders of Plattsburgh of the second generation settled. This exodus was
felt throughout the Valley.
It (education) was more than doubly needful in Vermont which had no church wealth or strength to begin with, and was losing instead of gaining, by every fresh movement of the people towards the west. --Hopkins
Thursday, September 19, 1816
Mr. Young of Albany opened a Lancasterian school in
the Acadamy addition to the one commenced the preceding July by Mr. Spencer Wall, for whom
Wall street is named. The trustees that year were Nathan Hewitt, M.L. Woosley, Wm.
Swetland, J. Lynde, E Miller, S. Moore and John Miller. The same day the remains of Lieut.
George W. Runk, so severely wounded during the siege of Plattsburgh, while passing
Macomb's headquarters, that he died the next day (Sept. 8), were removed from Crab Island,
their first burial place, to the village cemetery.
Monday, September 23, 1816
Nicholas Barker, a Friend of Peru, before
Rueben H. Walworth, J.P., claimed damages for the impressment of one sleigh and harness,
while he was attending church in Peru "some time in March 1813."
