September 30

1776
Lieut. Digby, who had been ill and delirious since the evening of the 27th, recovered his senses but had to be left on the island ( Isle au Noix) while his corps moved up "Riviere-la-Cole."

1821
An Episcopal Society was informally organized in the village of Plattsburgh, but there was no regular service of the Church until March, 1822, when the Rev. Joel Clapp was called to the rectorship of the parish. By this time many of the proprietors and original settlers had been gathered to their fathers, among them Judge Zephaniah and Capt. Nathaniel Platt, Platt Rodgers, Col, Melancton Smith and his father, the Judge, Gideon Rugar and Zopher Halsy.

1859
On Friday evening, was burned the old Hotel Building, once the Village House, kept by John Nichols, on the present site of the Witherill House. It was a clap-boarded building, painted white, two and a half stories high with gables on the north and south ends. John Nichols, a native of Massachusetts, came to Plattsburgh from Vermont and was interested in the building up of the village and an active participant in the War of 1812, just previous to which his brother Levi had come from Waltham, Mass. and had settled at Salmon River, where he died in 1860 in his ninety-third year.

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