January 23

1767  --Cold weather.---
                                         Gilliland.

1840  At Quebec died William Saxe, second son of John, the pioneer of Highgate, Vt.

1844  Acceptance of the call to the First Presbyterian Church, by the Rev. David Dobie of Huntington, Lower Canada, "a young Scotchman, in his thirty-third year, who appeared to be the right man to bring the people out of the unfortunate troubles, which had come upon them,-the diligent and delightful Dobie".

 Today In the Champlain Valley History