March 28
He is a messenger, this march wind, who rides bareback and standing a string of a hundred horses, and sweeps more marvelously around the ring of the world then any spangled equestrian around his circle of sawdust.  The roar of his passage and his hearty, re-assuring shout make the house rock, -and when he is off again you can hear him telling his good news in the next town. -James Buckham.

1767 -fine, clear pleasant weather; frozen smartly last night. -Gilliland's Journal.

1819 Birth of Matthew Davidson, brother of the sisters Lucretia and Margaret.

1820 Midshipman Charles Theodorus Platt promoted to lieutenant, U. S. N.

1828 Zephaniah Palmer surveyed and described the road which now runs to Harkness to the bridge at what he calls "the forks of Peru" (probably Ausable Forks).

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