May 31
1778
Ethan Allen, on his arrival in this country, waited on Gen. Washington at Valley Forge and then returned to Vt., where he was received with great joy. " Three cannons were fired that evening, and the next morning Col. Herrick gave orders and fourteen more were discharged", welcoming him to Bennington; "thirteen for the United States and one for young Vermont".
1828
Capt. and Mrs. Charles T. Platt lost their little son Benjamin Walworth and he was laid to rest in the village cemetery beside his baby sister Caroline who had died three years before.
From 1826 to '29 Capt. Platt leased the white house with bright green door and jet black knocker, standing, gable end to the east side of Peru street, just north of the down grade of Charlotte. In this neighborhood, the short, stout, jolly-spirited captain with his bronzed face, curling black hair and piercing eyes, home from a short cruise, was a familiar figure. His wife (a sister of Chancellor Walworth) was as unlike her sailor husband as possible, for she was tall and angular, with fair hair and complexion and eyes of dark blue looking out from a face almost classic in its symmetry.
