1821
Friday, January 19, 1821
The Society met at the house of John L. Fouquet and paid $1.00 for use of room. The expenses of Dr. B.J. Mooers, delegate to State Society, amounting to $20.25 were ordered paid and Dr. Luther Ransom, on account of age and infirmity permitted to withdraw from the Society.
Tuesday, March 27, 1821
"Dansville" (now Wilmington) set off from Jay.
Friday, April 6, 1821
Death of Henrietta Julia Kirtland, who became the wife of William Swetland, Esq., in 1811. Her monument erected by her husband was the first in Riverside cemetery.
Tuesday, April 10, 1821
The
annual meeting of the "Censors of the Clinton Agricultural Society"
was held at the home of Lester Sampson in Chazy and the following officer
chosen: Allen R. Moore, president; Robert Platt, Issac C. Platt and James
Crook, vice-presidents; Alexander Scott, treasurer, and Noadiah Moore,
"principal secretary."
Wednesday, April 25, 1821
Daniel
Baker certified before St. J. B. L. Skinner, J. P., that Sampson Soper, a
colored man, described as about five feet, seven inches high, rather light
complexion, aged about forty-two years old and born in Manchester, Vt., was born
free and had never been enslaved to his knowledge or belief. This proof of
Freedom was acknowledged by Caleb Nichols, a Judge of Clinton County Court of
Pleas.
The same date before Judge Nichols, J. Bailey, Town Clerk,
Gilead Sperry certified to the free birth of martin Tankard, "a Black or
Mulatto Person" about 22 years of age, whose family he had known in
Vermont. - Plattsburgh Town Records.
Tuesday, May 29, 1821- Judge Charles Platt, the first actual and permanent settler of Plattsburgh, passed away. He was always addressed as "Judge" and held that office for Clinton county until sixty years old. His "ruffled shirt-front, stately appearance, ruddy complexion and pleasant countenance" greatly impressed the younger generation. It was Judge Platt who, when in London in 1761 copied the description of the Platt coat of arms. For several years, he was the only settler with a knowledge of medicine and this he put to good use, doctoring the poor gratuitously and giving treatment to the Indians for "a beaver skin, the usual fee for bleeding.
Thursday, July 12, 1821
Arrival at Detroit, just one year and one day from the date of their first arrival, of the deputation from the Six Nations, with Mr. Williams at their head. They had been sent to effect a purchase of land from the Menominies and Winnebagoes for the Oneidas and other contemplating settlement in the West, which transaction was the following month brought about by treaty.
Sunday, September 30, 1821
