1831
Friday, May 27, 1831
Died in Plattsburgh, Joel Buck and his wife Hulda Bostwick, each
aged 73 years. They were born and died on the same date, and a double blue
marble stone marks their graves. They had come from New Milford, Conn.,
about 1810-1812 with their children Bellini, Philander, David, Ephraim, and
Hulda who married Daniel Beckwith, a farmer of West Plattsburgh. Their son
Ephraim, who was president of the village in 1835, went west in 1840.
Wednesday, July 27, 1831
Trinity Church was consecrated. The Rev. Anson Hard was then
rector. In the early years of it history, the Society had met for worship
at the Academy or Court House and during the interval (1826-1831), when the
church had no rector, the members usually attended the services of the Methodist
Church.
Thursday, August 11,
1831
At Burlington, Samuell Buell, son of the Revolutionary soldier, Major Elias
Buell of Coventry, Conn. died in his sixty-sixth year. His widow, Julia (Sailly)
Platt, survived until 1840. For many years Samuel Buell had been collector
of customs at Burlington.. Major Buell and his wife, Sarah Turner, died
the same year, 1824, in Albany.
