March 30

1690 Capt. Abram Schuyler was sent with nine men and a party of Mohawks under Lawrence, to Otter Creek to watch the enemy; while there he led a scout of eight Indians as far as Chumbly, where he encountered a small party of French, of whom he killed two and took one prisoner.
    -while from the western shore the land, after a gentle rise for a short distance, falls off rapidly toward the Otter, leaving the broad and extensive valley of that stream open to the vision, which now wanders to the western borders of Lake Champlain, where the long chain of mountains that rise immediately beyond, lies sleeping in the blue distance, and bounds the view of the magnificent scene. -Judge D. P Thompson in "The Green Mountain Boys."

1766 -this day river thawed, and the sawmill was set agoing. -Gilliland.

1767 - a bright, warm day. -Gilliland.

1811 In Plattsburgh, died Thomas Allen, a soldier of the Revolution and a first settler of the town.  In 1785, of the "gift lots, " twelve in number, he received number three, containing 100 acres and adjoining on the south that of Charles Platt while on the west it extended to the farm of Capt. Nathaniel Platt.

1814 In the morning the American army marched out of Champlain upon the Odelltown road now nearly impassable for artillery, obstructed as it was by fallen trees and heavy snow drifts.  Major Forsyth and his Rifles led the advance, followed by the 30th and 31st and part of the 11th under Col. Clark; two corps of infantry under Bissell and Smith and a reserve of 800 men under Macomb brought up the rear.  The attack on the stone mill ended disastrously for the Americans, their loss amounting to 104 killed and wounded, among them several brave officers while the British loss reported was but 10 killed and 46 wounded.  At sundown the whole army retired to Odelltown.

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