March 26

1690 Capt. Jacob d'Warm ordered by the authorities at Albany to proceed to Crown Point with 17 English and 20 Indians and there watch the movements of the enemy (the French and Indians).  At this time the built a small stone fort at what is now chimney Point in the town of Addison.

1767 -this was a very pleasant clear day and not cold, the maple trees run fast the middle of the day.  -Gilliland

1806 In Burlington, whither he had removed about 1800, died Col. Ebenezer Allen, the first settler of South Hero, after the Grant of the "Two Heroes" in 1779.  Col. Allen was a third cousin of Gen. Ethan Allen, an early settler in the New Hampshire grants 

1814 Wm. Baker, a sergeant of the British Army (103d regiment of Infantry), was executed as a spy on the sand ridge between Court and Brinckerhoff streets, now site of Mount Assumption Institute.

1823 In the Davidson homestead, overlooking Cumberland Bay, was born Margaret Miller Davidson, the younger and equally talented sister of Lucretia.  She began to write poetry when but six years old.
    On the Birth of a Sister.
Sweet babe, I cannot hope thou wilt be freed
From woes, to all, since earliest time, decreed; But mayest thou be with resignation blessed
To bear each evil, howsoe'er distressed.
        -Written by Lucretia in her fifteenth year.

1909 At Plattsburgh was organized the Nathan Beman Society, Children of the American Revolution, with Mrs. C.J. Vert, President.

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