January 24

1666  -Sieurs de la Forrille, Maximim and Lobiac, Captains of the Carignan regiment, joined the army with sixty men and some habitants but their ranks were so depleted before they reached St. Theresa that four companies had to be taken from the forts on the Richelieu to supply the vacancies.

                                           And many loyal hearts and true,
                                                         Who sailed across the ocean blue,
                                                         Who came its mysteries to explore,
                                                          Sleep now along its rocky shore:
                                                          Unmarked their graves--unknown the spot
                                                          Yet not by kindly Heaven forgot.

                                                                                                                     Marion Stetson Palmer.
                                                                                                                        Champlain, 1837-Plattsburgh, 1885

1786  The snow is now about twelve inches deep. I do not perceive it any colder here than it usually is at Poughkeepsie at this season of the year.                                                                              Charles Platt in letter to his brother Zephaniah.

1804  Death of Lieut. Peter Roberts (a descendant of Gov. Thos. Mayhew of  Nantucket) who located in Plattsburgh, coming from Manchester and Dorset, Vt. as early as 1800. He built his home on Lot No. 1, near the foot of Boynton avenue.  In 1768 he was in the militia of Dutchess country, where he married his wife, Jane Baker.  He was with Ethan Allen at the taking of Ti; with Warner in 1775-76 on his Canadian expedition and at Bennington, etc.

1817

"A large portion of the inhabitants are much distressed for want of bread, whilst the poorer and laboring class are absolutely destitute of the means of obtaining it at the high prices it sell for."
                                                                                      Peter Sailly to the Secretary of the Treasury.

1883

Died--Judge George Mather Beckwith, son of Dr. Baruch Beckwith from Lyme, Conn., who settled in Beekmantown in 1810, the first physician there, a descendant of Gen. Beckwith who came with Lords Say and Brook and settled in Saybrook, opposite Lyme; also of Increase Mather it was natural that Judge Beckwith should be identified with the Presbyterian Church, in which he was ordained an elder in 1855.

                  "A sober, earnest man, scrupulous with his fellowman, a warm hearted citizen, and a constant friend"

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