April 2

1767 -a soft, thawing, growing day; the river rose much last night and continued to rise all this day; I got my trough well loaded with large stone which completely secured it. -Gillilan.

1793 At Town Meeting held at the Court House, Plattsburgh, the following Town Officers were elected:  For Supervisor, Nathaniel Platt; Town Clerk, Chas. Platt; Assessors, Mel L. Woolsey, Benj'n Moores, Jacob Ferris;  Commissioners of Highways, John Stephenson, Charles Platt, Samuel Beeman; Overseers of the Poor, William Coe, Nathan Averill, Benj'n Graves; Constables, Benj'n Graves, George Marsh; Treasurer, Charles Platt; Fence Viewers, John Ransom, WM. Pitt Platt, Jonas Allen; Poundkeeper, Benj'n Graves, etc.

1804 At Peru Landing, died John Craig, Sr., a Scotchman who had first settled in Canada.  In 1801, he had married Lodema Ransom, daughter of John of Cumberland Head.  Their only child, John Craig, Jr., was then but a few months old.

1897 Bellevue Chapter, (named for Bellevue mountain) D. A. R. of St. Albans, Vt., organized.

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