February 10

1763 By the treaty of peace signed in Paris, France formally ceded to Great Britain the Province of Canada.
                -No more, thank God!  the cannon thunders forth, 
                 Or sabre flashes in the smoke and gloom,
                 Peace, Peace! - for snowy mantled Peace make room
                And Love, that in the heart of God had birth. -Buckham.

1767 -snow continued until 4 in the afternoon, then stop'd, we now compute the snow to be 20 inches deep on a level. - Gilliland

1789 Ethan Allen, being short of hay on account of a partial failure of crops the preceding summer, with his ox-sled and pair of horses and his black man for a driver, crossed the ice to Allen's point, South Hero, to the house of his friend, Col. Ebenezer Allen, who had promised him a supply.  His host having invited a number of old acquaintances to spend the afternoon and evening Allen was induced to remain until morning although the hay was already loaded.

1877 Died in Washington, D. C., Rear Admiral Theodorus Bailey, son of Judge Wm. Bailey and grandson of Capt. Nathaniel Platt of Plattsburgh.  In the expedition against New Orleans Bailey, then a lieutenant, was sent by Farragut with Lieut. Perkins, to demand the surrender of the city.  Abreast, unguarded and alone, the two young officers walked through the street while the mob shouted "Shoot them!  Kill them!  Hang them!"

1888 At his home 27 Broad Street, died Joseph Willard Tuttle, descendant of Samuel Tuttle Senior and Junior, Revolutionary soldiers of Littletown, Mass.  From infancy his life was spent in the Champlain Valley; his education acquired in the common schools and academy at Burlington and his knowledge of the printing business to which his life was devoted, in a regular apprenticeship in the office of Chaucey Goodrich.  His acquaintance with men and knowledge of the newspaper business was obtained through connection as editor or publisher with the following publications:  -the Watervliet Advocate, the Franklin Republican of Sheldon. Vt., Burlington Free Press, Clinton County Whig, American Sentinel, and Sentinel but the failure of his eyesight in 1860 put an end to all editorial work and the great fire of 1867 brought to the front the indomitable pluck and courage of the man.  It was during his ownership of the Clinton County Whig that through his advocacy the interest of the people was aroused in the setting out of the shade trees which to-day adorn our streets.

1895 Plattsburgh Normal School places a bronze tablet upon Bridge Street in "Commemoration of the Gallant and Successful Resistance of the American Troops to the Repeated Attempts of the British Army to cross the bridge over the Saranac River at this Point, September 5-11, 1814."

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