January 11

1769 The English government issued a mandamus for 30,000 acres of land, lying on the west side of Lake Champlain,  to be surveyed to Count Charles de Fredenburgh, a German nobleman who had been a captain in the British army.

                    Thy verdant banks, thy lucid stream,
                     Lit by the sun's resplendent beam,
                     Reflect each bending tree so light
                     Upon thy bounding bosom bright.
                                     -Margaret Miller Davidson

1812  Married:  By the Rev. Mr. Halsey, Samuel Buell, Esq., Collector for the District of Vermont to Mrs. Julia Platt, daughter of Peter Sailly, Esq.

1867  The Rev. Benj.Ball Newton, from 1836-1839, pastor of the Plattsburgh Presbyterian Church, took deacon's orders in the Protestant Episcopal Church in Brooklyn

1887  A second explosion occurred at the factory above Maine Mill of the Clinton Powder Co., organized Dec., 1884, Works removed soon afterwards.

1894  Pleasure seekers skated across the bay to Cumberland Head and the next day the ice in the entire bay was broken by wind.

 Today In the Champlain Valley History