February 29 

1756 -Agreeable to orders from Col. Glasier, (then commanding at Fort William Henry) I this day marched with a party of fifty-six men down the west side of Lake George.  We continued our route northward till the fifth of March.  -Rogers the Ranger.

1792 It was in the month of February, while Congress was enacting the laws by which Vermont was to become a member of the Union, that Prince Edward, the fourth son of George the third, then a young man of twenty-four, afterwards Duke of Kent and father of Queen Victoria, passed through the Champlain valley.  He had been in command of a regiment at Quebec and was now on his way to Boston.
    Arriving at Chazy with a large party, he crossed in thirteen carryalls and sleighs on the ice to Grand Isle and thence to Burlington, remaining until the third day.  At that time there were but seven frame houses in the town and that of Phineas Loomis (site south-west corner of William Street), a large oak framed two story swelling house just completed and surrounded by the original forest was the only one at which the Prince and his suite could be entertained.
    At Burlington the teamsters were dismissed to return to Canada and others engaged to take the Prince to Boston.  The lady accompanying him, with whom he always conversed in French, started for New York, the two to meet, it was understood, in the West Indies.  Before parting the Prince saw that he fur robes were tucked snugly about the traveler while a large dog lay at her feet.

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