Thursday May 17, 1827
Capt. Sidney Smith, U.S.N., died in the 45th year of his age. He left a widow (who afterwards married Asa Haskell of Malone and lived to old age) and children, William Sidney, Margaret, and Catherine. During the siege of Plattsburgh, Captain Smith was a prisoner of war at Quebec. In his home hung an oil portrait of himself, painted when a very young man, Through this a British officer thrust a sword, making a hole in the neck. The mutilated likeness is still treasured by a granddaughter
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Friday, August 17, 1827
John Hammond, son of Charles F Hammond, was born at Crown Point. At the breaking out of the war of the rebellion, he
assisted in sending out the first company of volunteers from Crown Point, and later "raised Company H, of the Fifth New York
Volunteer Cavalry, with which he went to the front and did most gallant service." He was twice wounded and on his retirement
received the brevet of Brigadier General. The remainder of his life was devoted to the iron manufacturing and railroad interests
of this region.
Birth, at Wilmington, Essex county, N.Y. of Van Buren Miller, son of John Jay and Abigail Miller. His grandfather, Pliny Miller, had gone from Albany county during the War of 1812, as a captain under Col. Young, and was for a time stationed at French Mills. A few years after the war, Capt. Miller returned to the wilderness and purchasing 300 acres in what is now the center of Saranac village, built a dam and hay mill and, at the time of Van Buren's birth was constructing the first bridge across the stream. The grandson, in 1858, followed father and grandfather into this new country and there he remained until his death, June 17, 1894, sought by all whether rich or poor, for the transaction of any kind of legal business.
