January 10

1633 The cold was very severe.  I see daylight a great part of the winter, only through ice.  The crusts of ice gather upon the windows of my cell, or little room, and fall like a lozenge, or a piece of glass, when the cold relaxes.  It is through this crystal that the sun sends us his light.   -Paul Le Jeune among the Montagnais

1791     In Highgate, Vt., of cancer in the breast died Catherine Weaver, beloved wife of John Sax (Sachs).  She was 47 years old and left eight young sons and a four-year-old daughter, all of whom bore well their part in he settlement and development of the valley.  The sixth son, Peter, remained on the homestead and became the father of John Godfrey Saxe (Sax), the poet.  At Bennington, the same day, the convention called for that purpose, adopted the constitution of the United States.

1792  The survey of the tract known as Macomb's Purchase, being completed and security for the payment of the southern half deposited, letters patent were issues to Alexander Macomb.  The same year "Macomb became involved with others in an attempt to establish a bank in opposition to the Bank of New York, and was compelled to assign his interest in the above lands to his creditors."

1814  Other detachments of troops having arrived Wilkinson repaired to Plattsburgh in person while the camp at French Mills was broken up and all magazines and provisions forwarded to Lake Champlain.

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