March 16

1757 While the lake was still frozen and the snow lay in heavy drifts along its shores, a party of 1,100 French and 40 Canadian Indians under Vaudreuil and the Chevalier Longueuil having marched from Ticonderoga lay all night upon the snow behind Long Point.

1776 Birth in Rhinebeck, N.Y., of Matthew, fourth son of John and Catherine (Weaver) Sax.  Matthew became a pioneer of Chazy and from him and his brothers Saxe's Landing took its name.

1813 The 6th regiment left Plattsburgh.

1826 In his home on Cumberland Avenue, died Hon. Peter Sailly, Collector f Customs for this district form 1809 until his death.

1874 The association for a united, systematic effort in behalf of homeless waifs and strays of the street and county house, organized by Margaret P. Platt, Sarah S. Williams, Catherine Frederica Buckley, Joanne W. Clark, Deborah T. S. Bixby, Mary M. Foot, Margaret E. Edwards, Margaret S. Palmer, Hannah S. Lansing, Welthy H. Orvis, Francis D. L. Hall, Charlotte M. Norton, Margaret P. Myers.

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