April 5
Daybreak! daybreak! bright grows the east at last;
Bells ringing, birds singing, sun in the dewdrop glassed.
        -James Buckham.

1769 William Kelley, in behalf of Lord Viscount Townsend and twenty-four associates, petitioned for a grant of 25,000 acres, bounded east by Cumberland Bay and extending west on both sides of Saranac River, including the land covered by the warrant of survey of Jan. 27, 1768.

1796 It was voted "that ten dollars be paid by the inhabitants of Peru for every wolf killed within the town of Peru in the  present year, said wolf to be a full Grone wolf and fresh killed."
    At the regular town meeting in the Court House (Plattsburgh) it was "voted to raise twenty-five ponds by tax on the Freeholders and inhabitants of the Town of Plattsburgh this year to finish the Court House."

1878 Death of Capt. Wm. H. Bailey, grandson of Judge Wm. Bailey.

 Today In the Champlain Valley History