1845
Thursday, May 1 ,1845
Was completed the labor of stockading twelve acres, at Clinton Prison, commenced in snow five feet deep under the direction of the first agent, Ransom Cook of Saratoga Springs, a son-in-law of Robert Ayers.
Tuesday, May 20, 1845
At Port Gilliland, Anna Maria Staats, wife of William Gilliland, Jr., died. Although the burying ground, just north of their home, was the gift of her husband to the neighborhood, and was known as Gilliland cemetery, she was buried in Riverside cemetery. Their barn was often used for the services of the M.E. church until the building of the church at Port Jackson.
Wednesday, June 18, 1845
At Crown Point died Judith Livingston, wife of Allen Breed, who settled there in 1808 or 1809. She was the mother of nine children, Allen, Lucena, Foster, Melinda, Charlotte, Tryphena, William, Amanda, and Benjamin. Her father, Isaac Livingston, a Revolutionary soldier of N.H., died at Crown Point.
