April 6

1767 -a lovely day, the sun hot, through the wind keep snor'ly.  Froze pretty hard last night, set sawmill agoing to-day.  -this day set my 3 hands to clear from the barn to the lower landing. -Gilliland.

1790 At the regular Town Meeting this year the Path Masters chosen were:  Charles Platt, Gideon Rugar, John Fontfleyd, Lucius Reynolds, Robert Morris, Moses Soper, Benjamin Mooers, Point-au-Roches, John Cochran, South side River, Isaac Finch, Edward Everitt, Sable.

1814 Com. Macdonough wrote to Peter Sailly, Collector of Customs:  " I have rec'd only this morning your favr of 29th ultimo, owing to the impartibility of crossing the Lake."  He then gives the information that the "B. flotilla has been at Rouses point since a few Days," and that their ship will soon be ready to "display the English Collours."  He speaks of the great danger lest the enemy seize the boats and sink them loaded with stones at the mouth of rivers and creeks, telling Mr. Sailly that he will know best as to the advisability of placing strong batteries at the mouth of the Saranac, and closing with:  "It will do no good to growl; but I may observe that we are going to be in a desperate situation on the shores of this lake as long as the British can navigate it, Stop all Communication and plunder our Shores."
    The letter is written with evident hast, with several erasures and changes.  An inventory of military stores such as boxes of candles, soap, pounds of beef, pork, etc. occupies the margin and the commander signs himself Yrs. Ths McDonough.

1821 Death of Henrietta Julia Kirtland, who became the wife of William Swetland, Esq., in 1811.  Her monument erected by her husband was the first in Riverside cemetery.

1862 Was killed in battle Capt. Edward Saxe, grandson of the pioneer John Saxe and son of Jacob who first engaged in business in Sheldon, Vt., and afterwards with his brothers Matthew and Peter at West Chazy,  At the beginning of the war of 1812, Jacob removed his merchandise t the storehouse at Chazy Landing, and on the approach of a large force of British, took the same on batteaux to Orwell, VT., where the only sister of the Saxe brothers cared for them.  The war over, there was as short period spent in Chazy before removal to the mouth of the Salmon river (Port Gilliland) where he built a blast furnace, sawmill, dams, charcoal kilns, etc., employing forty men.  The freshet of 1830 swept all these buildings and dams into the lake, but the stone dwelling which he built still stands.  He spent the closing years of his life in Sheldon to which his wife had gone during the British invasion and where she plainly heard the booming of cannon during the battle of Plattsburgh. 

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