February 19

1767 -this day I came home; the weather has been rather sharp these 3 days, this however was the warmest, though a strong wind, but it was southerly.  -Gilliland.

1807 Pliny Moore was appointed judge in the Court of Common Pleas.

1814 "Your company is requested on 
           Thursday evening, the twenty-fourth
           instant, at a Ball, to be given
           at Israel Green's Hotel
           Major Lomax, (Manager)
          Capt. Rees, (Manager)
          John Bleecker, (Manager)
          R. H. Walworth, (Manager)

This invitation was printed in Old English text, on the reverse side of an ordinary playing card, the Queen of Diamonds.

1839 Zephaniah Palmer surveyed what is now called Lyon Street, west of Port Jackson.

1844 Died in the house on Water Street, built by him in 1796, the first of brick in Burlington, Dr. John Pomeroy aged nearly 79 years.  For forty years he had been a leading physician and surgeon, occupying at first a log cabin which stood in what is now Pearl Street.  AT sixteen he was a soldier in the patriot army but afterward studied Physic.  "He was a Unitarian of the most thorough kind."

 Today In the Champlain Valley History