February 11

1767 - a pleasant day, laid the hearth in our room, this day.  G. Belton's man came on the ice from home to Chism's Point, good walking. -Gilliland.

The first premonition of spring is a subtle tone of the wind -- perhaps the most subtle of any; yet a trained and attentive ear can hardly miss or mistake it.  I find that I have a different mood, at once, when the February wind begins to blow.  -James Buckham.

1789 This morning Gen. Allen got upon the load of hay and his black man drove towards home, the Indian Rock farm.  Several times he called back to his master and though receiving no answer thought nothing of it until his arrival when the General was found to be unconscious in a fit of apoplexy.

1811 Daniel Wright who had fought at Bunker Hill, Ticonderoga, and Saratoga and under Stark, Reed and St. Clair, was commissioned Brigadier-General; Luman Wadhams, Captain; and Daniel B. McNeil, Adjutant of the 37th regiment.

 Today In the Champlain Valley History