March 2 
The March wind is the most positive of all winds in the pneumatic calendar, and no one questions his ability to identify it, no matter under what circumstances it may be heard. -James Buckham.

1767 -soft, thawing weather, killed the 2 sows, this afternoon Wm. Bogart of Albany left  hhds. of rum with me not being able to proceed down the lake, the ice being bad.  -Gilliland.

1814 About the first of the month Maj. Forsyth, with 300 Riflemen and Dragoons had been sent to the lines near Champlain to protect eth frontier and break up an illicit intercourse which had been carried on with the enemy during the winter, while Gen. Macomb and Col. Clark had been sent to the Vermont frontier for a similar purpose.  The British becoming alarmed had occupied Lacolle and strengthened the forts at St. Johns and Isle Aux Noix.

1819 Caleb Luther of Chazy became Sheriff of Clinton county, which office he held until Dec. 31, 1824.

1826 In the "yellow school house" Mr. Ebenezer Mott from Crown Point was ordained pastor of the Baptist church of Keeseville, the Revs. Samuel Churchill of Elizabethtown, Ephraim Smith of Chateaugay, Jeremy H. Dyer of Westport, and Stephen Wise of Jay assisting.

1860 Fell asleep in Christ at Champlain the Rev. Abraham D. Brinkerhoff, for twelve years the faithful and beloved pastor of the Congregational Presbyterian church at that place.  Thirteen clergymen acted as pall bearers at his funeral.

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