March 21

1767 -a close thick snow this morning, it appeared to have fell 2 inches last night.  About sun setting, James Logan set out from Eliza sandy point, with his horse and a sleigh load of hay, to go home over the ice; he got safe to within 1/2 mile of his house, when his horse fell into a wide crack and was drowned; Logan returned to McAuley's; the latter part of this day was constant sleet and rain, the wind southerly, the forenoon being a wet snow.-Gilliland.

1838 At Malone Susan Maria Man, daughter of Albon Man, M. D., and his wife Maria (Platt) Man, became the bride of the Hon. Hugh McCulloch, secretary of the treasury under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson.  The bride's grandfather of her father's side was Dr. Ebenezer Man, brigade surgeon at the battles of Monmouth and Yorktown; and on her mother's side, the fearless Capt. Nathaniel Platt.

1842 At the early age of thirty-five, in her home corner of Margaret and Cornelia streets, died Eliza of Wm. Pitt Platt.  Her uncle, Chancellor Kent says of her in writing to her mother (his sister):  "She was a woman of strong mind, and of strong feelings, and of great, energy and decision of  character."

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