January 17

1714  Stoddard and his party presented their credentials to DeVaudreuil, the governor, hoping to effect the release of the prisoners, among them Eunice; but their hopes were only partially realized.

1766  Sent hands to finish the road to Eliza point which was completed by the 24th Jan., which made it clear from the Mills to Eliza meadow.

1809   At Wadham's Mills was born Elizabeth Whitney Fairchild, daughter of John and Elizabeth Safford Whitney and wife of Ben. Smith Fairchild.

1812  The officers belonging to Major Thomas Millers' Regiment, will rendezvous at the Union Coffee House, in the Village of Plattsburgh, on the seventeenth day of January next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon.
                            By order of Major Thos. Miller, Commandant
                                Isaac C. Platt, Adjutant
                                    Plattsburgh Republican, Dec. 27, 1811

1815   Clinton County Medical Society, met at Goldsmith's, inholder in Plattsburgh.  Dr. Nathan Carver and Francis Parker admitted members.  Nathan Carver was elected President; Benjamin Mooers, Vice-President; and B.J. Mooers, Secretary.

1826   The Medical Society met at McCreedy's.  The president, Dr. O. Davidson, read a dissertation on phthisis pulmonalis. Drs. Kane and D.C. Stone were admitted to membership.  Drs. Miller, Carver and Davidson were chosen a committee to draft a petition to be presented to the Legislature in regard to the law proposed by the State Medical Society for the suppression of quackery.

1875   Died in Brooklyn, N.Y., the Rev. Benjamin Ball Newton, assistant rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity.  "A man of many gifts, bright and versatile in all."

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