October 31

An enchanted place is the October wood. - Buckham.

1794
Rebecca Leflin, daughter of James and Experience (Williams) Leflin, was born in Georgia, Vt. Her mother, a daughter of the Rev. Warham Williams, brother of Eunice, was in that way related to the Rev. Eleazer Williams, if he were not the Dauphin. During the summer of 1814, Rebecca was teaching school on Rugar street, living in the family of her half-brother, Nathan Perry, but at the time of the invasion, she was with her mother in Champlain, sickness in the family, requiring her assistance. She married David Leeke, a pioneer from Long Island, whose sisters, Phoebe and Abigail, married David Parsons and Elias Woodruff, respectively. Rebecca's mother's family left Connecticut on account of the witchcraft delusion and settled in Rutland, where her mother's uncle, Judge Samuel Williams, became Vermont's historian. The Leekes lived at Point au Roche, where Mr. Leekes died in middle life. His widow lived quietly on the old place, attaining the age of 93 years, 6 months and 4 days.

1798
Saturday, the house of James Mix, Beekmantown, was burned. The next day his neighbors went into the woods and by nightfall had hewn the timbers, and made and raised the frame for a new house, 20 x 25 ft, which they completed on Monday and Tuesday so that the family moved in.

1832
On Wednesday, in St. Paul's Chapel, New York, the Rev. John Henry Hopkins was consecrated Bishop of the new Diocese of Vermont, by Bishop White, assisted by Bishop Griswold of the Eastern Diocese and Bishop Bowen of South Carolina. Bishop H. U. Onderdonk preached the sermon. Within three weeks the new Bishop had resigned as Assistant Minister of Trinity Church, Boston; had made two trips to Vermont; bought a house in Burlington with thirteen acres of ground attached, and moved a family of fifteen souls there.

1853
Allen Breed, pioneer, died at Crown Point. He had settled there with his young family about 1808 or 09, purchasing land now occupied by the village of Crown Point on the lake drive. He was an extensive lumber dealer and built many of the houses in the village, his old home having but recently undergone modern changes.