"How beautiful is Nature!" Every soul,

Beating with warm and gentle feeling,

Must repeat with me these heartfelt words,

"How beautiful is Nature!"

-Margaret Davidson.

1769 Jonas Platt, second son of Judge Zephaniah Platt and Mary VanWyck, was born in Poughkeepsie. His preparatory studies were taken at a French Academy in Montreal and his legal training was under Richard Varick of New York. Soon after his admission to the bar, in 1790, he married Helen Livingston. The active life of Judge Platt was spent in the Mohawk valley where he held many high offices, including that of Judge of the Supreme Court. He was also General of Cavalry in the State militia. After the loss of his judicial position through the amended provisions of the State Constitution, he opened a law office with his oldest son, Zephaniah, at Utica. In three or four years, he returned to the practice of his profession in New York but advancing years led him to retire in 1829, to his farm in Peru, seven miles from Plattsburgh, where he spent his remaining days.

1777 B. Gen'l Frazer's Brigade moved forward and disembarked on a point of Land on the Western Shore Three Miles from Tyconderoga from which circumstance 'tis called Three Mile Point. The Army Received Provisions to the 8th July inclusive. G.O.

The Army embarks tomorrow, to approach the Enemy.-Hadden.

1794 Francis Culver, Jr. was born. On the day of the British advance, the Culver family were at home. Gen. Wool fell back to Culver hill and the enemy followed closely. On the brow of the hill Col. Wellington was killed ad his remains hastily buried on the side hill on the Culver farm. Partridge of the Essex county militia was killed just south of their barn. In 1815, the year after the battle, the present house was built and October 10, his wedding day, Francis Jr. received from his father the large family Bible.