1838

January 5, 1838

The men interested in the formation of an Episcopal church at Rouses Point met in the stone school house built in 1824 and organized "Christ's Church.".

Tuesday, February 20, 1838
- At his home, corner of Peru and Bridge Streets, died Gen. Benjamin Mooers, a soldier of the Revolution and early settler of Clinton county of which he was the first sheriff and, for 42 consecutive years, from 1788-1830, county treasurer, besides holding many other important offices.
    In the war of 1812 as Major General of State militia, he was placed in command of the Northern division, the State being divided into grand divisions - north and south.  His command did picket duty and resisted the enemy's advance from beyond Culver's Hill to Plattsburgh, guarding every point along the Saranac with great vigilance.

Tuesday, March 6, 1838
Essex County Academy at Westport received a charter from the Regents.  The first trustees were Aaron B. Mack, Judge Charles Hatch, Charles B. Hatch, George B. Reynolds, Ira Henderson, Norris McKinney, Barnabas Myrick, Caleb P. Cole and Joseph Cole.  For twenty years this was one of the important schools in the valley, receiving pupils from New York and Montreal, from Vermont and all the towns of the county.  The building was burned about 1874.

Wednesday, March 21, 1838
At Malone Susan Maria Man, daughter of Albon Man, M. D., and his wife Maria (Platt) Man, became the bride of the Hon. Hugh McCulloch, secretary of the treasury under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson.  The bride's grandfather of her father's side was Dr. Ebenezer Man, brigade surgeon at the battles of Monmouth and Yorktown; and on her mother's side, the fearless Capt. Nathaniel Platt.

Wednesday, May 16, 1838
At Irasburgh, at the home of her son Ira H., died Jerusha (Enos) Allen, daughter of Gen. Roger Enos and widow of Gen. Ira Allen.  She was 74 years old.

Wednesday, May 30, 1838
  Long years before this day had been set apart in memory of our patriotic dead, the Hon. Moss Kent died at his home with his nephew and namesake, the Hon. Moss Kent Platt.  Moss Kent, son of  Moss Kent, Esq. and brother of the Chancellor, was a practicing lawyer, and held many important political civil offices.  His betrothed, a sister of J. Fenimore Cooper, having been killed while horse-back riding, he never married, but his kindness and generosity to those about him was unbounded.  To him, her benefactor, Lucretia Davidson, owed her superior advantages of education and to several of his nieces he gave homes.

                                    The golden age of peach has come to earth:
                                                Lo, in the blood-stained fields, the lilies bloom,
                                                    And softly on the alien soldier's tomb
                                                Is laid the wreath that owns his manly worth.
                                                                                                                            Buckham.

Friday, June 15, 1838
The date of the completion by contract of the Cumberland Head lighthouse, built by Peter Comstock according to his bid of $3,325.  The old building was separated from the dwelling and stood nearer the shore.  The first keeper of the new light was "Decon" Samuel Emery whose posey-loving housekeeper turned the government grounds into one vast flower garden.

Monday, August 6, 1838
At his farm, near Halsey's Corner, to which he had retired on resigning the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church, died the Rev. Frederick Halsey, its organizer and pastor until 1810.  He left a widow (his second wife) Mrs. Maria Man nee Platt, who later became the third wife of her neighbor and cousin, Isaac C. Platt.  Pastor Halsey came from Smithtown, L.I. to minister to this people in spiritual and educational affairs.  At first he preached from house to house until a church was organized, which during the fourteen years of his pastorate held its services in the Block House near the lakeshore on the Point.  It may be truly said that he laid the foundation for the educational, social and spiritual interests for this region.  It is recorded that he solemnized more than 600 marriages and his church increased nearly five-fold during his ministry.  At his grave it was said the he "was a man that never made an enemy"--a rare eulogy.

Thursday, August 16, 1838
Death, at Champlain, of Mary Tallmadge Corbin, wife of Capt. Joseph Corbin. 

Thursday, September 6, 1838
The wedding day of peter Sailly Palmer and Margaret Smith, daughter of Captain Sidney Smith, U.S.N. The groom was already in possesion of a good practice in Michigan, whither they want, retiring in a few years to Plattsburgh where they remained for life.

Wednesday, October 3, 1838
Joseph Corbin, a pioneer in 1798, died at Champlain. He was a soldier of the Revolution, enlisting at Killingly, Conn., his native place, September 17, '76, and at Williamstown, Mass, to which he had removed in the fall of 1778. He also responded to the Saratoga alarm, October 11-22, 1781.

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