April 30

1737 A grant of land (embracing the territory now known as Colchester), adjoining the grant to Capt. de la Pierre in 1734, was made to Lieut. Gen. Pierre Raimbault, which grant was later conveyed by his heirs to Benjamin Price, Daniel Robertson and John Livingston.

1771 Birth of Wm. Pitt Platt, third son of Judge Zephaniah.  He settled on lot No. 9 Cumberland Head conveyed to him by his father.  From 1812 he was a Ruling Elder in the Presbyterian Church.

1775 Mott overtook Romans and Phelps at Salisbury and the party, consisting of sixteen men, held on together northward.  At Sheffield, they sent tow men Halsey and Stephens, to Albany to discover the temper of the people there.  They reached Pittsfield the next day and lodged at Col. Easton's.  -Scribner's History

1813 Asa Aikens, afterwards of Westport, received his commission as captain of the 31st regiment, U. S. A.  The colonel of the 29th (mostly from Dutchess county) was Col. Melancton Smith of Plattsburgh, son of the late Judge of the same name of New York.

1898 William Mooers Platt, a member of the Nathan Beman Society Children of the American Revolution, died.

1900 Entered into rest, Kate Louise (McCaffrey) Burroughs of Champlain, member of Saranac Chapter of great-grand-daughter of Ensign Jonas Morgan of the First Company, Col. Samuel McLellan's regiment of volunteers; also descendant of Capt. Edward Mott of New Preston, Conn., Chairman of the Committee in charge of the expedition against Ticonderoga and crown Point.  Ensign Morgan, after the Revolution, became proprietor of the patents in the black river country (Champlain Valley) which bear his name and erected the first forge which was afterwards known as Brainard's Forge.  He married Sarah Mott, daughter of the patriot Capt. Edward Mott.

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