January 25

1767

A strong north wind opened the lake, broke the ice in bitts.---Gilliland

1802

At Isle La Motte died Samuel Fisk, son of the Rev. Ichabod and Eleanor Roberts Fisk who came from Poultney, Vt. to the Island in 1788.  Samuel Fisk married Polly Scott and built the stone house-the Fisk homestead- now on the Island

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