February 14

1823 An act was passed authorizing the Judges of the Clinton Common Pleas to erect "a tollgate" at or near the dwelling house of Benj. H. Mooers, eighteen miles west of Plattsburgh village.

1860 Died in Washington, Capt. Horace Bucklin Sawyer of Plattsburgh, who had served under Lieut. Sidney Smith, had endured a year's captivity at Halifax; served on the Constitution in the engagement and capture of the Cyane and Levant; had been stationed at Boston; sailed before the mast in an India ship, served in the South American squadron, in the West Indies, in the Mediterranean and on military duty on Canadian frontier.  In his travels he had met Capt. Douglass, the Duke of Wellington, Dir Edward Codrington, Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, Sir Astely Cooper, Gen. Lafayette and many others.  For many years, previous to 1850, Capt.. Sawyer lived in the wooden house, built about 1820, No. 268 Main Street, Burlington, but after his marriage to Miss Wadworth, a sister of Mrs. Cornelius Halsey of Plattsburgh, he removed to that place living at No. 40 Cornelia Street.  His wife and several children survived him.

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