February 17
I said in my doubting heart,
"Our lives are set oceans apart."
Then Love took his measuring wand,
And Lo! neither sea was nor land!
    -James Buckham.

1814 Benjamin Hazen Mooers, son of Gen. Benj. Mooers was married to Margaret Platt, daughter of Dr. John and Elizabeth (Smith) Miller.

1857 Died in St. Albans, the Rev. David Dobie, pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Plattsburgh 1844-1855.  Of his father he often said "I would rather have the memory of my father's piety and my interest in his prayers than the best worldly estate that was ever left a child."

 Today In the Champlain Valley History