October 3

1666
The main body of the army at Fort St. Anne, led by the aged, but determined, M. de Tracy, moved off.

1763
3rd and 4th - The two days sowed and harrowed our wheat.
Gilliland.

No serf in the field but is sowing God's seed - Buckham.

1838
Joseph Corbin, a pioneer in 1798, died at Champlain. He was a soldier of the Revolution, enlisting at Killingly, Conn., his native place, September 17, '76, and at Williamstown, Mass, to which he had removed in the fall of 1778. He also responded to the Saratoga alarm, October 11-22, 1781.

1842
The old Revolutionary soldier, John Roberts, died at So. Plattsburgh, aged 83 years.

1866
"In the soft splendor of an autumn afternoon, which seemed a kind of natural token of the Resurrection", after the remains of Dr. Colt had been committed to the earth, each child of the Sunday school dropped a floral tribute upon the casket and the venerable Canon Townsend of Canada dismissed the assembly with the Apostolic Benediction.

1889
Discovery, near Trout Brook, in Ticonderoga, by a workman digging a trench, of the remains of Lord Howe, killed July 6, 1758, together with a stone of hard limestone, weighing twenty or twenty-five pounds and bearing the inscription: Mem of Lo Howe Killed Trout Brook.

1897
The First Presbyterian Church celebrated the Centennial Anniversary of its organization, October 1st and 3d.