January 3

1749    Benning Wentworth, Governor of New Hampshire made a grant of a township six miles square which he called Bennington.

                    -they found themselves on a high ridge, sloping to the north, with the matchless reach of the Walloomsac valley on every side.  Eastward, the long dark range of mountains blue with changing shadows; northward, the rolling meadows, -westward, Mount Anthony, emerald against the blue; and southward, the town founded by Benning Wentworth, the Bennington of Stark and Ethan Allen. -Theodora Peck--Jester of the Grants, Burlington.

1776 The remains of Montgomery, respected and beloved by friend January 1and foe, were buried near the ramparts of Quebec, there to remain until July, 1818, when, on board the Phoenix, with flags at half-mast and draped with the emblems of mourning and insignia of the state, they were borne through the lake to their final resting place in St. Paul's churchyard, New York City.

1908  Incorporation of Clinton County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children by Hon. W. J. McCaffrey, Mrs. Wm. Levy, Mrs. D.K. Gilbert, MRs. Geo. S. Weed, B. S. Ramsey, J.H. LaRocque.  For animals, Misses Smith, McCaffrey and Farley, Messrs. McCaffrey, Elmore, Kempner and Davis.

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