1828
Thursday, January 31, 1828
The Champlain Transportation Company held its first annual meeting for the election of officers at Burlington with William A. Griswold, Pres.
Friday March, 28, 1828
Zephaniah Palmer surveyed and described the road which now runs to Harkness to the bridge at what he calls "the forks of Peru" (probably Ausable Forks).
Monday, April 21, 1828
"Plattsburgh Academy" incorporated.
FIRST BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Benjamin Mooers, John Lynde, William Swetland, Jonathan Griffin, Frederick
Halsey, Frederick L. C. Sailly, Heman Cady, Ephraim Buck, William F. Haile,
George Marsh, John Palmer, Henry K. Averill.
Saturday, May 31, 1828
Capt. and Mrs. Charles T. Platt lost their little son Benjamin Walworth and he was laid to rest in the village cemetery beside his baby sister Caroline who had died three years before.
From 1826 to '29 Capt. Platt leased the white house with bright green door and jet black knocker, standing, gable end to the east side of Peru street, just north of the down grade of Charlotte. In this neighborhood, the short, stout, jolly-spirited captain with his bronzed face, curling black hair and piercing eyes, home from a short cruise, was a familiar figure. His wife (a sister of Chancellor Walworth) was as unlike her sailor husband as possible, for she was tall and angular, with fair hair and complexion and eyes of dark blue looking out from a face almost classic in its symmetry.
Saturday, July 26, 1828
Captain Daniel Wilsox, the first boat-builder on the lake, died at the age of 64 years. He came, in 1788, with Benjamin Boardman from Connecticut, where he had built the first boat, a sloop of 30 tons, after the Revolutionary war. Like the Boardmans, Joseph, Henry, Elisha and Samuel, he settled on Grand Isle, where he made the brick and built the house known as the D. Wilcox Inn on the Wilcox farm, South Hero. He also ran the first ferry from his place to the Ransom landing "under the swinging branches of elms and quivering shadows of Lombardy poplars."
Saturday, August 2, 1828
Beginning of the first term of the Academy after its incorporation with Alexander H. Prescott, who had previously taught in Chazy, as principal. Mr. Prescott married a daughter of Dr. Herrick (whose home was opposite the Freileigh house on Peru St.) and built and occupied the stone house, now 5 Broad St.
Monday, September 8, 1828
Margaret Griffin, daughter of Jonathan Griffin, and a student at the Academy, died. The following is an extract from a poem written at the time, supposedly by little Margaret Davidson, then only 7 or 8 years old.
TO MARGARET
And is it thus-and is it thus,
We're doomed thy sainted form to see?
Oh! desolating thought for us,
Oh! sweet and blessed sleep for thee.
Not long ago, thy blue eyes met
The fading sun when evening spread,
Its lines of light,
The autumn flowers look smiling on,There's life and joy in field and wood;
Yet she who waked their smiles is gone;
We wander forth in solitude.
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