October 2

1677
Benoni Stebbins sent by his captors with two squaws and a mare to pick huckleberries, escaped on the mare and returned to Deerfield. Poor Man! only to be slain while defending his own house when next the savages came. His widow married in 1709 Dea. Thos. French, whose wife, Mary Catlin, had been killed March 9 on the retreat to Canada.

1712
Eshter Wheelwright began her novitiate as an Ursuline nun, taking the white veil the January following. In 1714 she was invested with the black robe and veil and became Mother Ester Marie Joseph of the Infant Jesus.

1801
Caroline Platt, oldest child of the Rev. Frederick and Letitia (Platt) Halsey, was born, March 16, 1820, she married James Bailey, who in 1798, in connection with William Bailey, who had built a store near the present site of Clinton Block at the head of Bridge street. James Bailey's family lived on Cornelia Street ( no. 32), but later, when the children of Eleazer Miller had sought homes of their own and the Bailey children were still young, and exchange was made. The Millers took the Bailey house and there spent their remaining days, and the Baileys removed the large yellow frame house originally built by Nathan Averill, Sr., past which Margaret street was, years afterwards, continued north. The house was, a few years later, bricked up and finally, in 1909, taken down.

1816
At his own request, Capt. John Knight, of the 2d Company, 2d Regiment, was honorably discharged from the service by John Oaks, Brigadier General. His commission, given in Council Chamber, Montpelier, Vt., September 20, 1810, and signed by Gov. Jonas Galuscha, is still preserved. Capt. Knight was born November 11, 1787, on the island of North Hero, where his parents, John Sr., and Abigail (Towne) Knight had settles in 1785. He died at the old homestead March 16, 1878.