January 13

1767    13th and 14th, soft weather, with a good deal of rain, the river (Boquet) open to foot of the rapids.  Killed the calf of the swelled headed cow.  Being about six weeks old, it weighed 88 lbs of good veal, which at 6d per lb. with the tallow of fall and skin came to L3.  Gillliland

1788    In Barnard, Vt. was born Asa Aikens, son of Solomon and Betsey (Smith) Aikens.  A cadet at West Point; graduate of Middlebury College, class of 1808; practicing lawyer in Windsor until  his removal to Westport; captain of the 31st regiment, U.S.A. war of 1812; member of Vermont Legislature, Judge of Supreme Court, President of Council of Censors, editor of Supreme Court Reports and editor of two law books, "Practical Forms" and "Tables", the latter published in 1846 after his settlement in Westport, Judge Aikens led a busy professional life.  While on a visit to Hackensack, N.J., he died in 1863.

1802   Anne Treadwell became the bride of Isaac C. Platt whose sister, Margaret Platt, had for several years been the wife of her brother Nathaniel Hazard Treadwell.  Their father Judge Thomas Treadwell with with his family and about forty slaves had come in 1793 from Smithtown, L.I. to the site on Bay St. Armand, as known to the French, which had been selected by Nathaniel, then a young surveyor, the year before.  But Nathaniel and his wife pushed on to Canada and settled in the Seigniory L'Orignal, a township of some fifty-four square miles which he opened to settlers in 1794.

 Today In the Champlain Valley History