With November comes a braver and saner wind,
whose sound I like right well. - Buckham

1752
A seignory along the lake and including Chazy River was granted to Sieur Bedue. John La Frombois is said to have settled on this seigniory and to have remained through life, being the first permanent settler in the county. Some of his descendants are still residents in the vicinity. On the accession of the English, the claims of all these seigniouies were refused, and on the retreat of the French army to Canada, all the French settlements on the lake, except that of La Frombois, were abandoned.

1785
The first boy was born in Plattsburgh. He was a son of the Hon. Kinner and Lucretia (Banker) newcomb, and was named Platt. To this child fifty acres of land was given on which descendants still live. Platt Newcomb graduated from Union College in 1808. In the War of 1812, he served as orderly under Capt. Seth Sherry, Col. Miller's regiment, was in skrmish at Beekmantown and helped tear up the bridge at Plattsburgh. He was also a member of the Legislature of the State. He died in West Plattsburgh in August, 1871. The first child born in the new settlement was Ida Ostrander, born September 7th preceding.

1802
The name of Isle La Motte was changed to Vinyard. This year Caleb Hill of Granville came to the island and at once began fitting tracts of wild land for market, establishing highways and building schoolhouses. He ran the first ferry from Isle La Motte to Alburgh, receiving a grant from the Vermont Legislature in the winter of 1805-06 for the operation of the same. This remained in the hands of his decendants and was used until the building of the bridge in 1882. Mr. Hill was captain of the company of Vermont State Militia which helped guard the frontier during the war. The members of his company were:- Isaac Ayslin, Isaac Barber, David Bassett, Orlin Blanchard, Charles Carron, Bethuel Clark, John Clark, Jesse Clark, Jacob Darby, Conrad Denio, George Dennis, Iona Dixon, John Durham, Claudius Fiske, Eben Fiske, Ira Fiske, Solomon Fiske, Lewis Gordon, Elihu Hall, Nathaniel Hall, Ira Hall, Minard Hilliard, Amos Holcomb, Jesse Holcomb, Carmi Holcomb, Ephraim Holcomb, Chester Holdridge, Ezra Knapp, Ezra Pike, James Racy, Enoch Sherman, Amaziah Smith, Henry Scott, John Scott, Luther Strong, Nathan Strong, Joseph Sumericks, Cyrus Wait, Gardner Wait, Harry Waite, Solomon Wait, and William Wait.

1805
I have been to the Roman Catholic church to-day, the annual festival, of the dead. - E. Williams in Diary

1820
Gov. Richard Skinner appointed William H. White, con of William White of Vergennes, who had contributed generously to the buiding of Macdonough's fleet, Aide de Camp to the Brigadier General of the First Brigade in the third Division Vermont Militia.