February 5 

1767 -colder than yesterday, and sharp small snow, lake all frozen.  -Gilliland.

1785 The twelve patriarchs, Zephaniah Platt, Peter Tappan, Zacceus Newcomb, Nathaniel Platt, Platt Rogers, Charles Platt, Thomas Tredwell, Simon R. Reeves, Melancthon Smith, Jonathan Lawrence, Israel Smith, John Addams, accepted a proposition made at a meeting of the proprietors in New York City, to give to such of the associates as should within two years build a dam and mill on the Saranac, the exclusive title to the Fredenburgh Falls mill lot of fifty acres, and also one hundred acres on the north side of the river at its mouth.

1800 Thomas Macdonough, the future hero of Lake Champlain, warranted midshipman in the U.S. navy.

 Today In the Champlain Valley History