January 29

1756 Robert Rogers “started to look into Crown Point.”

1717 Jeffery Amherst was born in Kent and entered the army at the early age of fourteen years.

1787  The saw-mill has not turned since you left us, the grist-mill has done but little and is now still, tho’ I think both might, with care, go most of the winter if there was anything to grind.

-         Chas. Platt to his brother Zephaniah.

1817  Lake Champlain closed by ice.

1868    Died in Champlain, “lamented by all who knew him” Jonathan Douglas, son of the Revolutionary soldier and pioneer in 1793 in Chazy, Capt. John Douglas and grandson of Maj. Asa Douglas of Stephentown, N.Y. He spent most of his life on a farm in Chazy, was a miller by trade and served in the American army during the war of 1812 to 15.  He married a cousin Lucy Douglas of Pittstown and had twelve children.

 Today In the Champlain Valley History