March 7

1767 -executed leases for Mr. Dean, and let him and Luckey have sundrys for their settlement on their farm, the snow almost off the ground, especially where it has been cleared, the sun having much power, our wheat appears well, only the tops of the blades are withered. -Gilliland.
        Yet winter has some beauties left,
        Which cheer my heart forlorn.
                    -Margaret Miller Davidson.

1788 Clinton county erected from Washington and comprising four sub-divisions, viz., Champlain, Plattsburgh, Willsborough, and Crown Point, Liet. Benj. Mooers commissioned first Sheriff of Clinton county.  Champlain, on e of the original towns of the county, formed.  The first settlers were Scotch refugees and lands were surveyed by Lieut. Mooers, while the first surveyor of the "Moorfield Patent" was Pliny Moore, afterwards Judge Moore.  The first house was erected by the refugee Louis Goseline as early as 1784.  He was also the first mason.

1854 Edward Bingham Chamberlain examined and approved by Suffolk South Association in Boston at the house of Dr. Lyman Beecher.

1862 The 96th Regiment organized at Plattsburgh, during the winter of 1861-2, under the command of Col. James Fairman,  was mustered into the service of the United States and ready for "marching orders."

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