March 22

1767 -the wind about S. W., continued rain last night to 10 o'clock this day; very sloppy and bad walking; Logan durst not venture to cross the lake, the snow and water concealing the most dangerous places. -Gilliland.

1772 John Munro and others from Albany effected the capture of Remember Baker in his home in Arlington but he was rescued by Warner and others before the Hudson river was reached at the place where Troy now stands.

1785 Peter Sailly, accompanied by his wife and three of his children, Charles, Bernadine and Julia, (Emelia, the baby, remaining with her aunts at La Rochelle until her twentieth year) embarked at L'Orient, France for America.  They had a pleasant voyage of thirty-eight days.

1800 Judge Zephaniah Platt wrote from Plattsburgh to his friend George Clinton that he had never had a law suit, nor was he ever sued.

1814 Clinton county records show that 80 rods of land, corner Bridge and Peru streets were deeded to Gen. Benj. Mooers.  The house, a wooden one painted yellow was built and occupied by Thomas Green.  Many years later it was bricked up.

1822 Name of "Dansville" changed to Wilminton.  Rueben Sanford, an early pioneer from Pultney, Vt., was the life of the place for half a century starting a potashery, opening a hotel and engaging in other enterprises previous to 1812.  A devout Methodist, when the flood of February, 1830 had washed his mills away, in open meeting he said, "I thank God for the religion of Jesus Christ which the fire cannot burn nor the floods wash away."

1843 Died at Chazy Landing Benjamin Graves, one of the early settlers of Clinton county, residing in the towns of Plattsburgh, Altona, Champlain and Chazy.  In the Revolution he served for over three years as a body servant to Gen. Washington and was in the battles of Trenton, Princeton, Elizabethtown, Conn., Farms and Yorktown.

1895 An ordinance was approved which established a paid Fire Department in Burlington.

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