Thursday, January 22, 1818
At her home on Cumberland Head, Elizabeth Addams, daughter of Major John Addams and second wife of Gen. Benj. Mooers, died. She was one of the original members of the pioneer Church of Northern New York.
Wednesday, March 11, 1818
Installation of the Rev. Samuel W. Whelpley over the First Presbyterian church
of Plattsburgh and the Rev. Stephen Kinsley over the daughter of this church,
the Presbyterian Church of Beekmantown. The sermon on the occasion on the
text Ezk. iii:17, "The Spiritual Watchman" was preached by the Rev.
Daniel Haskell, pastor of the Congregational church of Burlington, Vermont and
the charge to the people was given by President Austin of the University of
Vermont.
Mr. Whelpley, originally from New England
and a Baptist had, while principal of Morristown Academy, N.J., united with the
Presbyterian Church, publishing his reasons for a change of views in a
"Discourse delivered in the First Church." He was already an
author of note when he came to Plattsburgh, having the previous year published
"The Triangle " in which the leaders and views of the "Old School
Theology" had been keenly criticized. This work created a sensation
and undoubtedly hastened the division in the Presbyterian Church into Old and
New School.
Thursday June 11, 1818
John Palmer appointed District Attorney. He was native of
Hoosick, but after his admission to the bar, removed in 1810 to Plattsburgh, to
which his fellow-townsman, Reuben H. Walworth had come the preceding year.
The two formed a partnership which continued until 1820. Mr. palmer
married Charlotte, the youngest daughter of Hon. Peter Sailly. They were
the parents of the Hon. Peter Sailly Palmer, whose years of labor spent on the
history of Lake Champlain, should not be forgotten.
Friday, June 19, 1818
Companies of the Sixth regiment of U.S.
regulars, stationed at Plattsburgh Barracks, detached to work on FortMontgomery
at Island Point, a small sand island between Rouses' Point and Province Point.
Wednesday, July 8, 1818
In St. Paul's church, New York City, near the monument erected
to his memory by order of Congress, Jan. 25., 1776, were deposited the remains
of Major-General Richard Montgomery. Col. Richard Platt, nephew of the
Plattsburgh pioneer brothers, in whose arms the revered Montgomery is said to
have expired, was the venerable marshal on that day.
Saturday, August 15, 1818
Troops at work on Fort Montgomery ordered back to Plattsburgh and detailed to
work on the "Military Turnpike", a highway beginning three miles west of the
village of Plattsburgh (Thorn's Corners) and continued twenty-four miles toward
Chateaugay. Over this route, Jonathan Thompson, at an early period,
carried the mail on horseback but, in 1823, commenced running a regular weekly
stage to Ogdensburg. This line connected with steamboats on both Lake
Champlain and Lake Ontario and enabled merchants to make business trips to
Albany and Montreal.
Thursday, September 3, 1818
Bishop Hobart visited Oneida Castle, and
confirmed eighty-nine persons, who had been prepared for that holy rite by Mr. Williams.
The Indians were greatly impressed by the bishop.
