1824
Wednesday, January 14, 1824
Lucretia Matilda Moore, daughter of Judge Pliny and Martha Corbin Moore, became the wife the Rev. Abraham D. Brinkerhoff.
Friday, May 7, 1824
Born in Chazy, Harry Sawyer Ransom, youngest son of Roswell and Ruth (Kingsley) Ransom. He went west-first to Missouri and then California, but returning ti hus native place, enlisted in his country's service. He was brevetted Major, U.S. Vols. eminent and conspicuous conduct in battle while commanding Company I, 118th Regiment, N.Y. Vols., at the battle of Drury's Bluff, Va., when he was severely.
Thursday, May 27, 1824
The first college building in Burlington, began in 1801 and completed in 1807 at a cost of $40,000, was destroyed by fire. It was of brick, four stories high, 160 feet long, 75 feet wide in the center, and 45 feet in the wings and had been taken by the U.S. Government for an arsenal in 1813 and leased for barracks in 1814. In 1815, after it had been repaired, the college sessions resumed.
Saturday, May 29, 1824- Elizabeth Platt went from her home on Cumberland Head the bride of Henry Ketchum Averill, Sr. To her, the youngest daughter of his only sister Hannah, the Hon. Moss Kent gave the house on Margaret street, corner of Cornelia, next door north of her sister, the wife of Dr. Mooers. It was in this house that Moss Kent first met the little girl , Lucretia Davidson, whose benefactor he became. Here, the young mother, Mrs. Averill, died at 35, leaving three children.
The Plattsburgh Republican of this date reads, "we are gratified to learn that the Post Master here has received from the Post-Master General instructions to contact for bringing the mails from Whitehall to this place twice a week by the steamboat. This is as it should be."
Thursday, June 3, 1824
James Savage, Esq., died "at his seat in Plattsburgh", aged 84 years. He was buried beside his wife, Anne, in Elmwood cemetery, Burlington.
