May 3
Why Nature is so sweet,
Sufficient and complete,
Grows plainer day by day
To him who learns her way.
                        -James Buckham.

1766 -arrived at Albany, where I was confined to my room, sometimes to my bed, until Saturday. - Gilliland

1785 Mr. Gilliland will please to confine his proposals for the lands at Ticonderoga to those comprehended by the limits following to wit:  bounded southerly and easterly by the waters of Lake Champlain; northerly and westerly by patented lands, as the commissioners cannot have any other land there, and of course are not authorized to receive proposals for any other lease it might hereafter to subject to controversy.  Mr. Gilliland will please to return this letter with his proposals.  -George Clinton.  Land Papers, V. 38, p.109.

1793 Joseph Ketchum bought the interests of Peter Tappan and Israel Smith, in the mill company, but the next year he died suddenly while away on a business trip and subsequently many changes occurred in the ownership of the mills, the whole property at one time coming into the hands of judge Levi Platt and later into the hands of the Bank of Plattsburgh, when it was divided ant sold piecemeal.

1815 The trustees of Plattsburgh village elect Levi Platt, as their first president and Gilead Sperry, clerk.

1854 Providence Orphan Asylum of Burlington founded by Bishop DeGoesbriand.

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