March 11

1767 - a bitter cold day, freezes hard, -this day I made a survey of the south shore of Encamping island, beginning at the north east corner thereof.  -Gilliland.

1818 Installation of the Rev. Samuel W. Whelpley over the First Presbyterian church of Plattsburgh and the Rev. Stephen Kinsley over the daughter of this church, the Presbyterian Church of Beekmantown.  The sermon on the occasion on the text Ezk. iii:17, "The Spiritual Watchman" was preached by the REv. Daniel Haskell, pastor of the Congregational church of Burlington, Vermont and the charge to the people was given by President Austin of the University of Vermont.
       Mr. Whelpley, originally from New England and a Baptist had, while principal of Morristown Academy, N.J., united with the Presbyterian Church, publishing his reasons for a change of views in a "Discourse delivered in the First Church."  He was already an author of note when he came to Plattsburgh, having the previous year published "The Triangle " in which the leaders and views of the "Old School Theology" had been keenly criticized.  This work created a sensation and undoubtedly hastened the division in the Presbyterian Church into Old and New School.

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