April 19

1799 Charles Barnard, son of Joseph and Margaret (Moore) Barnard, born on Cumberland Head in a house on the Benjamin Mooers property.  As a boy of fifteen, he witnessed the battle of Plattsburgh and during the engagement a cannon ball passed through his home.  After the battle Gen. Mooers took him, a barefoot boy, on  board one of American vessels where the blood upon the deck spattered upon his feet.

1810  On Thursday, the people of Burlington, favorable to liberal sentiments in religion, assembled in the Court House (a wooden structure, built in 1802, afterward burned)  "to induct into office the man they had chosen for their Christian teacher and guide, Mr. Sam'l Clark."  Here, "only 9 days before the Calvinistic party of seceders had with eager haste ordained another minister, (Mr. Daniel Haskel)."

1817  In the Republican was offered a reward of $100 for the apprehension of ten deserters from the cantonment, and the commandant of the post gave notice that he would prosecute any person who "may procure or entice any person to desert" and that desertions would thereafter be announced by three discharges of cannon in quick succession from Fort Moreau.

1832  At Wadhams Mills, to which he gave a name, in the fiftieth year of his age died Gen. Luman Wadhams, a native of Goshen, Conn., and early pioneer in Charlotte, VT., and in Lewis, Essex Co., N.Y.  He finally , in 1822 settled at Westport.  An officer at the battle of Plattsburgh, he afterwards became a general of militia.  In the cemetery at after, the remains of his aged widow were placed beside him.

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