1776
The days (at Isle Aux Noix) were intensely hot with heavy dews
at night and a camp disorder broke out, from which 20 to 60 in a regiment
succumbed each day.
1777
Early this morning we sailed with a very fair wind, passed Point au Fer
where a Post of 4 Companies was again established for a Depot, (9 miles).
We passed Isle au Mot, and I made a sketch of a Range of Mountains, seen
from that part of the Lake. We also passed the Army encamped on Cummerland
head; passed Valcour Island, Point au Sable, Schuyler's Island and some other
small Islands called the Four Brothers, and in the afternoon came to an anchor
at Boquet Ferry where the Elite of the Army under Brig'd Gen'l Frazer had
taken post. Hadden.
1785
Zepha Platt Graham spent "mapping and Dividing Cumberland head."
1789
Plattsburgh---began at a stake marked on the E.&S. sides standing by a butnut stump in the south line of Charles Platt's land. Busy surveying til July 4, 1789. --Captain Platt Roger's field notes.
1818
Companies of the Sixth regiment of U.S. regulars, stationed at Plattsburgh Barracks, detached to work on FortMontgomery at Island Point, a small sand island between Rouses' Point and Province Point.
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