1832

Thursday, January 19, 1832
In Plattsburgh to Winslow C. and Susan Skinner Watson was born a son, Winslow C. Watson Jr.  The lad received his academic training at Keeseville Academy, graduated from the U.V.M. in 1850, took the Master's degree and delivered the oration in 1857.  He then studied law in the office of Hon. George A. Saunders at Keeseville and was admitted to the bar in 1861.

Thursday, April 19, 1832
At Wadhams Mills, to which he gave a name, in the fiftieth year of his age died Gen. Luman Wadhams, a native of Goshen, Conn., and early pioneer in Charlotte, VT., and in Lewis, Essex Co., N.Y.  He finally , in 1822 settled at Westport.  An officer at the battle of Plattsburgh, he afterwards became a general of militia.  In the cemetery at after, the remains of his aged widow were placed beside him.

Saturday, July 14, 1832
Elizabeth, second wife of Dr. John Miller, died at her home at the head of Broad St.  His wives were sisters, two of the five daughters of Issac Smith and his wife, Margaret Platt, of Dutchess county.  Another sister, Phebe, married Dr. Burnet Miller and became the mother of Margaret Miller who married Dr. Oliver Davidson, the latter couple, the parents of Lucretia, Levi P., Mattias and Margaret Davidson.  During the British invasion, the family of Dr. Miller was in Dutchess county with relatives.  Their home was damaged by shot, barrels and casks in the cellar being burst open and a cannon ball finding lodgment in the chimney on the first floor.

Wednesday, July 18, 1832
he wedding day of Caroline Adriance Platt (youngest daughter of Hon. Isaac C. Platt and Anne Treadwell), and the Rev. John Diell, seaman's chaplain at Honolulu, Sandwich Islands.  The bride, a bright, lively girl, was educated at the Young Ladies Seminary of Mrs. Nancy Royce of Clinton, N.Y.  The following stanzas are from a poem addressed to her by her friend, Mrs. Davidson, on the eve of her marriage and departure.

TO CAROLINE.

Adieu, my fair, my much loved friend,
A long, a last Farwell:
May-angles on your steps attend,
And every fear dispel:

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When severed is each tender tie,
Which binds your heart to home,
And when beneath a foreign sky
A wanderer you roam,
May he, the friend for whose dear love
Rich blessings you forego,
A tender guardian ever prove
In happiness or woe.

Saturday, August 4, 1832
Died in her home on Margaret street near Broad, of cholera during the scourge in that year, Mrs. Parker, wife of a respectable mechanic, both members of the Presbyterian church.  The remains were interred at dead of night, attended by her courageous pastor, Mr. Chase, and a few of the church members, among them Mr. Winslow C. Watson.

Sunday, August 5, 1832
Col. Ozias Buell, an organizer and benefactor of the First Congregational Church, treasurer of the University of Vermont for 21 years and public spirited man in every way, died in Burlington, age 63.  Trained in business methods under his uncle, Mr. Julius Deming, of Litchfield he established himself in Kent, Conn., where he held the office of colonel in the continental militia.  After ten or twelve years he came to Burlington where his brother-in-law, Moses Catlin, was already settled.  When the bell for the first church building was ready to be raised, Macdonough,, whose vessel then lay at the wharf, "volunteered the services of his men to his friend Buell and superintended the operation in person.  Buell street perpetuates the colonel's family name. 

Monday, August 13, 1832
Francis Henriette DeLord, only child of Judge Henry and Madam Elizabeth (Ketchum) DeLord, and Henry Livingston Webb of Albany were united in marriage in Trinity church, Plattsburgh, by the Reb. J.H. Coit.

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