March 14

1767 -"very cold clear weather,"  It was on this day that the carcass, hide and tallow of George Hicks' cow mentioned before, was disposed of at public auction, the net proceeds being £1 15 2.  "This was a very cold clear day." -Gilliland.

1786 Hearing before the Commissioners of the Land office of the State of New York, at Mr. Heyers in the City of New York, of the claims of William Gilliland to several locations made by him under certain rights of sundry officers and privates of the Two Regiments raised for the defense of the State, which locations were subsequently set aside by this Board for the Canadian and Nova Scotia Refugees.

1909 Col. C. D. Cowles receives through the War Department, his commission as a brigade commander in the inaugural parade at Washington on March 4.  His brigade, the third, was composed of the Cuban Army of Pacification and include the Fifth Infantry (Organized 1798, one hundred and eleven years old.  Campaign War, 1812; Black Hawk and Seminole Indian Wars; Mexican and Civil Wars; Frontier Indian Wars; service in Cuba; Philippine Insurrection; Cuban Pacification)  Major W. O. Clark, commanding.

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