April 29

1766 J. W. and two other hands went to Crown Point for peas, and retd May 2d, with 4 bbls. condemned, and Wm. Ferris and his wife.  -was taken ill on board the Albany sloop. -Gilliland.

1776 The Commission reaches Montreal and is received by Gen. Benedict Arnold, then in command, with much courtsey.

1792 Birth of Anna Green, daughter of Friend Israel and Sarah (Deane) Green of Dutchess county.  Anna went from her father's hospitable house ("Israel Green's Inn) on Bridge street to preside over the mansion on the corner of Margaret and Brinkerhoff streets (now Custom House square) - the second wife of Col. Melancton Smith.  Her sister Deborah married Dr. William Beaumont, surgeon, U.S.A., while the younger of two brothers, Platt Rogers Green, became a lieutenant in the regular army joining the forces at Sackett's Harbor.  Anna (Green) Smith, early widowed, died in 1879.

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