May 29
1765 ---arrived at Fort George, with all the people, cattle, bateaux and goods. Gilliland.
1795- Isaac Smith of Dutchess county died at the age of 72. His daughter Phebe, the wife of Dr. Mathias Burnet Miller of Brooklyn, was the mother of Mrs. Davidson, a poetess herself like her son and two of her daughters. Isaac Smith's daughters Margaret and Elizabeth were the first and second wives of Dr. John Miller, a brother of Dr. Burnet, both sons of Burnet Miller, a revolutionary soldier, who died in Plattsburgh in 1797.
1814- Macdonough brought his fleet out of Otter Creek and cast anchor that same evening off Plattsburgh.
1821- Judge Charles Platt, the first actual and permanent settler of Plattsburgh, passed away. He was always addressed as "Judge" and held that office for Clinton county until sixty years old. His "ruffled shirt-front, stately appearance, ruddy complexion and pleasant countenance" greatly impressed the younger generation. It was Judge Platt who, when in London in 1761 copied the description of the Platt coat of arms. For several years, he was the only settler with a knowledge of medicine and this he put to good use, doctoring the poor gratuitously and giving treatment to the Indians for "a beaver skin, the usual fee for bleeding."
1824- Elizabeth Platt went from her home on Cumberland Head the bride of Henry Ketchum Averill, Sr. To her, the youngest daughter of his only sister Hannah, the Hon. Moss Kent gave the house on Margaret street, corner of Cornelia, next door north of her sister, the wife of Dr. Mooers. It was in this house that Moss Kent first met the little girl , Lucretia Davidson, whose benefactor he became. Here, the young mother, Mrs. Averill, died at 35, leaving three children.
The Plattsburgh Republican of this date reads, "we are gratified to learn that the Post Master here has received from the Post-Master General instructions to contact for bringing the mails from Whitehall to this place twice a week by the steamboat. This is as it should be."
1872- Lucretia, wife of Zephaniah Pitt Platt died aged 72 years. She and her sister Ann Eliza, daughters of Col. Thomas Miller were married on the same day (Jan 14, 1829), the one to Zephaniah P. and the other to Zephaniah C. Platt, his cousin. The presence of "hundreds" of guests made the wedding what is known among the Germans as a "high time".
