1765 --busy getting the goods and bateaux acrost the landing.--Gilliland.
1766 --arrived at fort George on that day, in the evn'g. My illness continuing, detained us all at Fort George for 9 days from the 2nd, to Wednesday. Idem
1767 --planted the following: muskmelons, shaped 20th July; radishes, lettuce, tong grass, parsley, savory, celeri, late cabbages, mustard, leeks, onions; they all came up short owing I believe to dry weather. Idem.
1795 At a town meeting in Plattsburgh, a tax of £25 was voted for the benefit of schools.
1800 Calvin K. Averill, son of Nathan Averill, Jr. and his wife Polly Ketchum, was born at Peru.
1813 Lieut. Sidney Smith, U.S.N. with two sloops of war, the Growler and Eagle, chased some British boats over the line into Canada. The same day, the town of Peru was first divided into school districts by Benjamin Sherman, William Keese, and Robert Platt, Commissioners.
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