January 4

1767    4th to the 12th, warm good weather, built part of our clay chimney in the new kitchen. -Gilliland.

1796    At a town-meeting held in Champlain this date, Nat. Douglass, Pliny Moore and Zerah Curtis were chosen the first school trustees.  The same day in Wallingford, Vt., was born Sally Clark, whose father, in 1803 removed with his family to Peru, where she became the wife of John Loderick Hackstaff.

1812     At Albany by the Rev. Mr. Neill, the Rev. William R. Weeks of Plattsburgh to Miss Hannah Randell, daughter of Mr. Jogn Randell, of the town of Colonie. 

1839     On this day, Friday, a Church Fast had been appointed by the session of the First Presbyterian Church in Plattsburgh and it had been resolved "that the Elders visit the Church at least once before taking up the subject we have just been considering (the dismissal of the Rev. Benj. Ball Newton) and especially in view of the near approach of our Communion."

1886    Death of Caroline Standish Weed, daughter of Col. Matthew Matthew and Phebe Miller Standish and wife of Hon. Smith Mead Weed.

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