March 20

1767 -a warm pleasant day. -Gilliland.

1778 I was appointed ensign in a Regiment commanded by Col. Moses Hazen, which was organized on a different plan from any other regiment in the Revolutionary war, viz:  Colonel, Lieut. Colonel, four Majors, twenty companies with a Captain, Lieut, and ensign to each company, which consisted of three Sergeants, three Corporals, Fifer, Drummer, and forty-two Privates.
Recollections of Benjamin Mooers, gathered and compiled by himself in Ms. at Plattsburgh in 1822.

1804 Chazy and Mooers were set off from Champlain.  The name of the former was from Chasy, an officer of the Carignan regiment, and that of the latter, from Lieut.. Benj. Mooers, first permanent settler of the county.  Sieur de Chasy was stationed a the new for of St. Anne when, in June, 1666, ambassadors from the Mohawks and Oneidas, stopped there, bound on a peaceful mission to Quebec.  The outlook was so favorable that the French officers relaxed somewhat their usual vigilance, and Chasy, with some of his brother officers and men, went on a hunting and fishing trip in the neighborhood.  Here, they were met by a group of "Iroquois of the Agniers tribe" and Chasy, who was a nephew of M. de Tracy, the viceroy with whom the Indian deputies were then conferring, was killed with de Travesy, while the rest were made prisoners.  The news of this tragedy, reaching Quebec, put an end to all negotiations and resulted in the expedition of M. de Sorel against the Mohawk villages.
    The same date, Schroon, named from the Duchess of Scharon, and Ticonderoga (Brawling Water) were organized.

1807  First Congregational church in Mooers organized by thirteen members and Rev. Benjamin Wooster and Rev. Amos Pettingill.

1859 Death of Hannah Saxe Scovell, ninth child and only daughter of John Saxe, the pioneer and wife of Josiah B. Scovell.

1907 First Presbyterian church in Mooers celebrated its 100th anniversary.

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