January 20

1746  The detachment under Mr. St. Luc la Corne for the protection of Fort St. Frederick left Montreal between the 20th and the 25th.--Colonial History

1767  -15th, to 20th, very good working weather and good sleighing, the snow about six inches deep, can bring a load of hay every day from Eliza meadow, with four oxen in the team, this day broke our sleigh in attempting to haul logs with it and set about making a flat log sleigh of the Canadian form.
                                                                 Gilliland.

Whoso toils truly, surely shall he reap.
                                                                                  Buckham

1776   Nathan Spalding of Penton enlisted and left home.  The following May he died of smallpox at Quebec while being carried in a cart with the retreating army.

1865 Died at his home known as the General Mooers' house, Col. Amasa Corbin Moore, son of Judge Pliny Moore of Champlain.  Jan. 18, 1826 he had married Charlotte Elizabeth Moores, daughter of Gen. Mooers.  They had ten children.  He was a lawyer in Plattsburgh and in 1843, on the occasion of the celebration of the anniversary  of the Battle of Plattsburgh, Col Moore delivered the patriotic address to the large audience assembled in the park in front of the court house.

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