1835

Tuesday, January 27,1835
 The “Macdonough” owned by the “Champlain Ferry Co.,” and the “Water Witch” and “  Winooski, “ owned by the “St. Albans Steamboat Co.” were purchased by “The Champlain Transportation Co.,” the company thus becoming owner of all the lake steamers.

Wednesday, August 12, 1835
Elder Will Pitt Platt or "Farmer" Platt as he was called, closed his earthly labors.  No one contributed more generously than he towards the building of the Presbyterian church, and knowing somewhat of his genius for mechanics, we wonder if the perfect little model of the first edifice of that Church, stored in the garret of the home of his son Moss at that time in burned, was not his work.  On special occasions the neighborhood children had had the privilege of a peep into this fascinating structure and had seen "real pews with little wooden men sitting in them." He was a quiet man, of average height, spare with quick, elastic step; black eyes and hair, with "a single lock of white hair wide as your finger, just above the right corner of his forehead, the remaining hair black, slightly inclining to brown." In religion "a Presbyterian and an oracle among them." On that memorable Sabbath morning, with his five-year old son Moss, he stood on a promontory near his home, among the non-combatants, and watched the battle raging in Cumberland Bay.

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