January 6

1729    Governor Thomas Chittenden was born in Guilford, Conn.  Early in the spring of 1774, having purchased a tract of land on the Winooski, or Onion river, in the township of Williston, he removed his family to the New Hampshire Grants as Vermont was then called.  But in June, 1776, on the approach of the British army he was obliged to remove them to Arlington for safety.  For him Chittenden County, VT was named.  

1800    George Marsh, who in 1791 with his wife, Polly Buel, his brother Charles and his sister Catherine all from Litchfeld Conn., settled in Plattsburgh, became second Major in Lieut. Col. Commandant Benj. Mooer's regiment.  The same day, his brother Charles Marsh was second Lieut. of a troop of horse in Brig.Gen. Melancton L. Woolsey's brigade of light infantry. 

1808     The executors of Zephaniah Platt manumitted Cato.  William Bailey, also, on that day manumitted his man Pete.  In Londonderry, Ireland was born Margaret, daughter of James Sanders, who in 1833 became the wife of Josiah Corbin of Champlain, N.Y. 

1845     Ethan Voltaire Allen, son of Gen. Ethan and Fanny Buchanan Allen, died in Norfolk County, Virginia.

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