Meanwhile the clouds were gath'ring drear. - Lucretia Davidson.

1761
Salisbury (Vt.) was chartered. The first settler, Amos Story was killed by a falling tree, but his widow came with her large family of children and did the work of a man, in felling trees, rolling logs and clearing the land. During the Revolution, she had a place of refuge in a cave in the bank of Otter Creek. A monument on the site of the home of that bravest of pioneer mother, Ann Story, wa dedicated July 27, 1905.

1764
Panton (VT.) was chartered. Among the first settlers were Jospeh Pangborn, Odle Squire, Timothy Spaulding and others from Cornwall, Conn. Peter Ferris came from Nine Partners and the death of his wife before the Revolution is said to have been the first in town.

1776
The rear guard of the British army left Crown Point, and it was immediately accupied by the Americans.

1791
Incorporation of the University of Vermont, for which Ira Allen had given a site of fifty acres covered with valuable pine trees and 4,000 pounds of money. The president's house was completed in 1799, its officers appointed in 1800, and the college building begun in 1801.

1794
Joseph Ketchum, the Revolutionary soldier from Dutchess county, who settled at Plattsburgh, died in New York City while on a business trip. He was buried in Trinity churchyard. On September, 1797, his widow, Pheobe, lived on lot numer five, north of the present court house. She later married Caleb Nichols, a young lawyer of the period.

1813
-Went to Cumberland Head and attended a council of war led by General Bloomfield. An order given by the council to repair boats and wagons for transportation and be in readisness for a winter's campaign.- E. Williams.