January
28
1766
Will. Gilliland sent 2 men with a team of oxen for hay and they did not return
to 1st February. This
was the first hay sent for. –Journal.
1787
Jacob Ferris, owner of the saw-mill and gristmill on the east side of the river,
writing from Plattsburgh, says that the dam is likely to stand well bur “the
mills Dus but very Little business this winter.”
1819
At Trenton, Oneida County, N.Y.,
died Gen. Melancton Lloyd Woolsey of Plattsburgh.
An officer during the Revolutionary war and an early settler o Cumberland
Head, his home the place now known as “The Old Homestead, “ he was appointed
first board of trustees of the Presbyterian Church (1803);
the Clinton County Bible Society and one of the committee for the sale of
pews in the new church edifice. As
a military exempt he assisted in building the redoubt ordered by Gen. Izard on
Cumberland Head. His wife and seven
children survived him. “He
died a Christian” said the United Patriot at the time.
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God’s helpers, whether great or
small, In the result are neither low nor high;
For each hath used his gift of brain or hand, And god, the Master
Builder, wrought through all.
-James Buckham
