April 7
There's a smile above, and a smile below,
In the clouds that roll, and the waves that flow.
Is the heart unchain'd by sorrow's thrall,
there's a smile of joy and of peace in all!
                    -Margaret Miller Davidson.

1763 Giles Hocquart deeded to M. Michel, Chartier De Lotbiniere, all of his seigniory lying north of Hospital Creek (Addison).  Lotbiniere petitioned the British Government form time to time to be reinstated in his lands and was finally, in 1776, given a seigniory on the St. Lawrence river.

1795 The Town Meeting was held "at the house of Mess Ketchum by adjournment from the Court House."  It was voted that "the sum of forty pounds be raised by tax for the completion of the Court House and twenty-six pounds for the benefits of schools.

1896 Celebration of the centennial of the organization of the Baptist Church of Pleasant Valley, (Elizabethtown).

1909 Wednesday, a disastrous gale, from the south and southwest, swept through the Champlain Valley and extended into Canada, attaining a speed of more than 60 miles an hour, clearing the lake of ice, uprooting trees and blowing down buildings and wires.  Glens Falls, Ticonderoga and Port Henry suffered especially.  In Plattsburgh, just north of historic Halsey's Corners, a brother and sister, Warren and Alida Eldred of West Chazy, driving homeward, were crushed and instantly killed beneath a falling Lombardy poplar, one of an ancient row that has stood opposite the Isaac and Zephaniah C. Platt homesteads for more than a century.  Lombardy poplars have been a distinguishing feature of all old Platt homesteads whether on the Hudson or in the Champlain Valley 

 Today In the Champlain Valley History