February 8

1759 Marriage of William Gilliland and Elizabeth Phagan, daughter of Mr. Phagan of the island of Jamaica but then residing in New York for the purpose of educating his children.  Her marriage dowry was fifteen hundred pounds.

1801 By the "Reverend Mr. Halsey, Minister of Plattsburgh" Lodema, daughter of John Ransom and his wife Rhoda Pratt, and John Craig a native of Scotland who had settled in Canada, were married.  They made their home on a farm of 500 acres on the lake shore in Peru where John Craig built the first and only dock (Peru landing) between Essex and Cumberland Head.

1809 Peter Sailly appointed collector of customs under Jefferson for the district of Champlain.

1878 At his Elizabethtown home, died Judge Augustus C. Hand.
            "As a lawyer - a model for imitation.  As a citizen and neighbor - the embodiment of manhood's ideal, kind, liberal, truthful, upright." -Tribute of George Levi Brown.

1896 Mill of the High Falls Pulp Company of Chateaugay commenced running.

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