March 29

1767 -a soft day with sleet and rain, and some snow. -Gilliland

1784 Bridport organized with John N. Bennet first town clerk; constable, M. Smith; selectmen, John Barber, Moses Johnson, Daniel Hoskins, Isaac Barrows, and Marshall Smith (the same who had escaped from Quebec in 1779).

1804 Saranac, formed from Plattsburgh.

1814 4,000 men were collected at Champlain, of whom 100 were cavalry and 304 artillerists, having 11 pieces of canon of small calibre.  With this force Wilkinson planned an attack against Major Hancock of the 13th who, with 600 men, occupied a stone grist-mill on the banks of the Lacolle river about five miles north of the lines.

1825 Died: -Judge Henry Delord, aged 61 years.  He was a native of Nismes, France, and came from the island of Martinique to Peru where he kept a store and was post-master.  He married Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph and Phebe Ketchum, and in 1810, removed to Plattsburgh purchasing form James Kent, the house on Bellevue (Cumberland) avenue, built by Nathan Averill, Sr., the hospitality of which became proverbial.

1839 Ausable and Black Brook, formed from Peru.

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