Tuesday, February 16, 1847
A ladies
fair was held in the lower room of the Academy which netted about $600 and the
sum augmented by private contributions and money voted by the Trustees enabled
the latter to add a third story and build up the angle then included between the
north west wings, painting the whole. These repairs were completed by
September 1, 1850.
Tuesday, April 4, 1848
Schuyler Falls formed from Plattsburgh. Ezra Turner, one of the original
thirteen settlers in the town of Plattsburgh, made the first settlement in the
Town about 1794 when he married Amy Beman daughter of Nathan Beman, then only
sixteen years old. Their home in the woods was seven miles from the little
settlement on the Lake.
Thursday, May 4, 1848
Mary Ferris, widow of Gideon Rugar, died at her home on Rugar street, aged 95
years.
Tuesday, June 6, 1848
William Gilliland, Jr. (born in 1768) died at Port
Gilliland, originally named Janesboro. It was he who secured the paper
giving information to the enemy, dropped by Col. Murray during his raid, while
Col Durand and Mr. Gilliland were interceding for the protection of the private
property of citizens.
July 1, 1848
Chancellor Walworth closed his judicial labors, leaving, of all the numerous cases argued before him and submitted to him for decision, but eight undecided.
"Never perhaps, were so many decisions made where so few were inaccurate as to facts, or erroneous as to law. If it was destined that the Court of Chancery should fall under a reform which apparently designs to obliterate the history as well as the legal systems of the past, it is a consolation to reflect that it fell without imputation on its purity or usefulness, and that no court was ever under the guidance of a judge purer in character or more gifted in talent than the last Chancellor of New York."
-Prof. Dane of Harvard.
September 5, 1847
"The Lord's Supper was postponed until the first
Sabbath of October, on account of the fiftieth anniversary of the church falling on Friday
the First of the month."- Sessional Records, Presbyterian Church, Plattsburgh.
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