February 23  

1767 -moderate weather, from this day to 1st March, were employed in cutting fencing stuff, and white oak, black birch, elm, beech, maple, and ash, for sawing, being the best season for cutting timber for last. - Gilliland.

1781 Alburgh, Vt., received its charter.  Its first settlers were from St. Johns in Lower Canada who had fled there as loyalists from the states during the Revolution.

1805 First Calvinistic Congregational Society of Burlington organized.  In 1905, celebrated its centennial.

1820 Birth of Monkton, Addison Co., VT., of Daniel Dodge, who revolutionized the making of horse-shoe nails.  The fist of this branch of the Dodge family in America, can from England and was a hoemaker by trade.  By accident while pursuing that occupation he discovered a simpler method of making nails than the one that used and this knowledge was passed from father to son.  Jordan dodge, grandfather of Daniel, an itinerant Baptist minister, removed from Connecticut to Granville, Vt., where he worked at his trade during the week and the Rev. John A., father of Daniel, also learned the trade.

1865 A portion of the town of Burlington, about one mile and a half in width and extending along the shore of the lake from the Winooski river, its northern boundary, to a line about six miles south, was chartered as a city.

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