1822
Friday, March 22, 1822
Name of "Dansville" changed to Wilminton. Rueben Sanford, an early pioneer from Pultney, Vt., was the life of the place for half a century starting a potashery, opening a hotel and engaging in other enterprises previous to 1812. A devout Methodist, when the flood of February, 1830 had washed his mills away, in open meeting he said, "I thank God for the religion of Jesus Christ which the fire cannot burn nor the floods wash away."
Sunday, April 8, 1822
At the house of Chauncey Stoddard, in Peru village, was organized by the Rev.
Stephen Kinsley the First Congregational Church was 11 members, who were set off
from the church at Chesterfield. They were Rueben Arthur, George Morell,
Peter Stearns, Arthur H. Merrill, Chauncey Stoddard, Eunice Stearns, Asineth
Stearns, Louisa Wells, Hannah Hutchins and Sarah Hutchins.
Peter Stearns was appointed moderator and Chauncey Stoddard,
clerk. Two tankards brought by Polly (miller) Sherrill from her father's
house in East Hampton, L. I., and used by this church for many years as
communion cups are still treasured by a descendant.
Saturday, May 4, 1822
At an examination held in the Academy Theophelus A. O. Bruneau of Montreal, took the first prize in languages; Wm. C. Bacon of Plattsburgh, first in mathematics and composition; John P. Hall, first in declamation; John Ransom in geography; Miss Lucretia M. Davidson in composition and history; Elizabeth S. Freligh in arithmetic; Delia A. Griffin in geography and Mary E. Walworth the second prize in the same subject.
A Week Before Examinations.
One has a headache, one a cold,
One has her neck in flannel rolled;
Ask the complaint, and you are told
'Next week's
examination.'
One frets and scolds, and
laughs and cries,
Another hopes, despairs, and sighs;
Ask but the cause and each replies,
'Next week's examination.'
One bans her books, then
grasps them tight,
And studies morning, noon, and night,
As though she took some strange delight
'In these examinations.'
The books are marked,
defaced, and thumbed,
The Brains with midnight tasks benumbed,
Still all in that account is summed,
'Next week's examination.'
-Lucretia Maria Davidson.
Thursday, May 16, 1822
Was burned the homestead built by Capt. Nathaniel Platt in 1796, from timber hewn and prepared in Poughkeepsie, and brought to Plattsburgh in bateaux, From this house Capt. Platt refused to go at the time of the British invasion 1814, although all the family had fled to Peru, and he did not hesitate to express himself freely to a young officer who addressed him insolently. Doors from the original building are said to be in use in the present structure on the same site, the stone house built for Judge William Bailey, Cornelia Street.
