April 1
Where's the heart that can answer nay
To the whispered "Come!" of an April day?
                            -Buckham.

1690 Capt. Abraham Schuyler was ordered to the mouth of Otter Creek with 9 men there "to watch day and night for one month, and daily communicated with Capt. D'Warm, concerning Lawrence, the Mohawk chief, and his party of Indians."  At the same time D'Warm's orders were changed to select some other place at the Pass which he did, building a little stone fort at Chimney Point in Addison, the first possession or occupation by civilized men in Vermont.

1758 Was born in Haverhill, Mass., Benjamin Mooers, son of Benjamin and Abigal (Hazen) Mooers.  The father was a native of Newbury, Mass. and was a tanner by trade.  From 1783 to 1786 Benjamin, Jr. spent his summers on the borders of the Lake and winters in Haverhill.

1767 -"the ice on the lake looked very black yesterday evening," wrote Gilliland.  He then says that when they arose about 6 O'clock 3/4 of the ice appeared to be sunk as it did not freeze during the night and the wind was blowing from the south.  The wind continuing high and southerly with some rain during the day the lake appeared all open except the bays and on their return from the woods at 3 in the afternoon the creeks were very high and "in the swamps the ice very rotten."  In the forenoon they had continued to run lines at Mrs. Jane Gilliland's south but the wetness of the afternoon hurried him home to Milltown to secure his trough lest the river should break up and flood injure it.  On arriving he found "a considerable flood" in the Boquet and the snow almost all off the cleared land.
    Pioneer History of the Champlain Valley. -Watson.

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