February 15

1766 All the 8 bbl. pork and 3 carcasses of beef being finished J. W. set out for Crown Point for sweetening which he sent home the 20th. -Gilliland.

1767 warm, dull weather. -Idem.

1782 Wm. Irish, Leonard Owen, Amos Mansfield, Absalom Taylor and Thos. Dewey commenced the settlement of the township of Milton.  They were soon joined by Gideon Hoxsie, Zebadiah Dewey, Enoch and Elisha Ashley with others.  
            In Stephentown, N.Y., to Capt. John Douglas, patriot, and Hannah Brown his wife, was born a daughter, Abigail.  with her parents she removed to Chazy in 1793 and, about 1801, because the wife of John Louis Fouquet who, in 1798 had opened a small boarding house in Plattsburgh, near the site of the present Fouquet house.  This first building was burned during the battle of Plattsburgh by hot balls from the fort and the next year (1815) a second house was built which was destroyed by fire in 1864.  This couple had four children Douglas Louis, Merrit Louis, Hannah Louise and Amherst Douglas.

1834 Birth of Frank Palmer (afterwards Colonel) son of William Palmer who came to Plattsburgh from Hoosick, Rensselaer Co., N.Y., about 1840.  William Palmer combined the occupations of farmer, merchant and manufacturers of cotton and woolen cloths.  He built the first mills on the sites now occupied by the Lake Champlain Pulp and Paper Company; also, the woolen mills on Bridge Street.

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