Oh! the summer morns and evenings, when the lazy, lowing cows let you dream your boyish day-dreams, while they idly stopped to browse.-- James Buckham
1813
At three o'clock in the morning, Lieut. Smith found himself at Ash Island while the enemy's row-galleys had taken refuge under the guns and fortifications of Isle aux Noix. Retreat against the current of the Lake and in the face of a strong south wind, was impossible and in the four-hour engagement that followed the Americans were forced to surrender. The officers, among whom were Lieut. Smith, Loomis, sailing master of the Eagle; Sawyer, midshipman, and Capt. Herrick, were sent first to Montreal and then to Halifax where they were confined in one of H.M. ships of war, commanded by Hon. Capt. Douglas "who treated them with great kindness although his government had proposed to deal with them as with traitors until assured by our government that for everyone so dealt with, two Englishmen should receive similar treatment". After an exchanged had been effected, Mid. Sawyer was ordered to the Constitution.
1816
At Highgate, Vt. was born John Godfrey Saxe, second son of Peter and Elizabeth (Jewett) Sax, second son of Peter and Elizabeth (Jewett) Sax, his wife. Godfrey Sachs, the great-grandfather, died in Prussia when his son John, the emigrant, was but fourteen. The name, anglicized to Sax had the e added during the last half of the century. John Godfrey Saxe, was an American poet, journalist, and lecturer, best known, however, for his humorous poems. In 1859 and 1860 he was the unsuccessful candidate for governor of Vermont.
1824
James Savage, Esq., died "at his seat in Plattsburgh", aged 84 years. He was buried beside his wife, Anne, in Elmwood cemetery, Burlington.
1875
At his home, four miles from the village of Plattsburgh on the old turnpike leading to Malone, died Elder Chester Balch, for more that 30 years a ruling elder of the First Presbyterian church--a man of the old puritanical stamp. He was a son of Timothy Balch of Hartford, Conn., who had located about 1802 on a farm a short distance from that of his brother Ebenezer.
