March 17
In Cumberland Bay fair Undine to-day
Lies bound in the fetters of sleep,
But her lover, the Sun, soon northward will come
To waken his bride of the deep.
                                                                -Marion Stetson Palmer
                                                                                    Champlain, 1837 - Plattsburgh, 1885

1756 We returned and marched round by the bay to the west of Crown Point, and at night got into the cleared land among their houses and barns.  Here we formed an ambush, expecting their labourers out to tend their cattle and clean their grain, of which there were several barns full.  We continued there that night, and next day till dark; when discovering none of the enemy, we set fire to the houses and barns, and marched off. -Rogers the Ranger.
    -the only scout of fame, who after Lexington loved the King of England better then his country.
        -W. H. H.. Murray.

1757 The French, early the next morning, suddenly appeared before Fort William Henry, but John Stark with his rangers, forced the assailants back although they succeeded in burning several sloops, a large number of bateaux, and some store houses which stood beyond the reach of the fort.

1767 -laid out a piece of land on my mother's lot to be cleared by Jno. Smith and Thos. Burke, beginning at N. Smith's marked tree, on the bank of the lake, etc. -Gilliland.

1775 The inhabitants of Willsboro agreed upon regulations concerning roads, fences, bridges and hogs, declaring these "to be binding on us respectively by every Tie of honor and honesty for the space f twelve months from this date."  The signers were:  Will Gilliland, Thomas Day. Martin Armstrong, Ebenezer White, Nathaniel Blood, Jonathan Flint, Thomas Day, William Cammeron, Jotham Gardner, Jacob Garner.

1783 Death of Major James Armstrong Wilson of the Cumberland valley who was captured by a party of observation under Frazier and Scott in July, 1777 but was afterwards exchanged.

1788 In Lanesboro, Berkshire county, Mass., was born Julius C. Hubbell who removed to Champlain in 1805 and entered the law office of his brother Silas as a student at the age of seventeen.

1834 The steam ferry (Winooski, Capt. Dan Lyon) commenced her trips between Plattsburgh, Port Kent an Burlington.

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