January
27
1768
Warrant of survey
issued at Fort George, New York to Count Charles de Fredenburg with nineteen
associates for grant of 20,000 acres of land at the west of Lake Champlain.
1787
Occurred the first marriage
in North Hero – that of John Brunson and Miss Elizabeth Bates.
1798
Saturday, Charles Z. Platt,
fourth son of Judge Zephaniah, arrived in Plattsburgh.
He says in a letter dated Feb. 12, “Found all well.
The mills have done a great deal of business, but the colliers,
wood-choppers, carpenters, blacksmiths, millers, and all the
Lazy folks in this town have eat all the Toal up.”
1812
On this date, Julius C. Hubbell,
having in 1808 hired a room in a house in Chazy and begun the practice of law,
later hired the whole house and married Ann Moore, daughter of Judge Pliny Moore
of Champlain. He brought his bride
to the home he had prepared on horseback on a Pillion and there their first
three children were born.
1835
The “Macdonough” owned by the “Champlain
Ferry Co.,” and the “Water Witch” and “
Winooski, “ owned by the “St. Albans Steamboat Co.” were purchased
by “The Champlain Transportation Co.,” the company thus becoming owner of
all the lake steamers.
1886
Major Robert W. Livingston calmly “crossed the bar” and his remains were
laid in Riverside cemetery. –Pleasant Valley History.
1905 Dedication of new Armory Building, Burlington.
