January 15

1766 Will. Gilliland sent hands to complete the road to Eliza meadow which was effected in two days. Snow 2 feet deep

1778 William Gilliland in a letter written from Albany Fort and addressed tot he committee of safety of Albany complains bitterly of his treatment at the hands of Gen. Gates, reciting how his remaining slavers were encouraged to desert his service and harbored at the general's own house; his feather bed carried off and his cellar robbed of upwards of four hundred pounds vale of liquor, sugar, etc., and when this was made known to Gen. Gates no attention was paid to the matter but Gilliland was arrested and imprisoned under false charges of disloyalty to the American cause.

1811   Clinton County Medical Society met at the house of Edward Hunter (now 25 Broad street), inn holder in Plattsburgh when it was decided to send a delegate to the State Society and five members were fined $1 each for non-attendance.

1817  The old homestead at Basin Harbor was burned and with its burning came memories of its builder, Platt Rogers, the famous road-maker and one of the patriarchs of Plattsburgh; of his Dutch bride, Eyda Wiltse of Dutchess county, who came here in 1789; of the day, ten years later when the remains of her husband were brought home from Plattsburgh to be laid in the family plot; of their daughter, Ida and her husband, John Winans, builder in 1808 of the fist steamboat on the lake and second in the world; memories of the birth of the fist grand-child, Platt Rogers Halstead; of frequent visits and entertainment of Macdonough, and his officers and men, among them Joseph Barron and lastly, that last visit of William Gilliland and its fatal termination. her 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.

1872   The long earthly life of "Uncle" Isaac C. Platt, son of the first settler Judge Charles Platt, came to a close in his home built on land which had fallen to his father's share in the original division of lots. This old home, in 1814, the military hospital of the enemy was, in times of peace, always a place of good cheer.  When his father, early in the century gave up the position of County Jude, Isaac, on account of his deafness, declined the office but he served as Sheriff of the County in 1804, 1809, and 1811.  Honorable and just, the never failing friend of the poor and destitute was he.

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