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HISTORY
OF
PLATTSBURGH,
N.Y.,
FROM
ITS FIRST
SETTLEMENT TO
JAN.
I,
876
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PLATTSBURGH,
1877.
N.Y.
HISTORY
OF
PLATTSBURGH
FROM
ITS FIRST
SETTLEMENT TO
J6^\
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JAN.
I,
1876.
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PLATTSBURGH,
1877.
N.Y.
INTRODUCTORY.
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"
Northern
New York
Historical
Society Papers."
Paper
"
repro-
duced
PLATTSBURGH (VILLAGE).
One hundred and
ment issued
land, lying
mandamus
thirty
thousand acres
to
of
of
Lake Champlain,
be
The
warhad,
1,
1769.
De Fredenburgh
this,
upon
it,
by the erection
of a comfortable dwelling-house
its
on
mouth, and of
known as
From
and nineteen
acres of land, at
of
Lake
On
the
nth
of January,
1769, a
mandamus was
issued, granting de
Fredenburgh
May by
a warrant of survey, to lay out the 30,000 acres on the west side of the lake, beginning
island of Valcour, including both
at a point
opposite the
banks
of the "
Saranak"
falls,
and
also the
whole point
of
1 See recital in Patent of Plattshurgli. The dwelling-lioiise occupied by de Fredenburgh, stood near the site of the late United States Hotel.
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
(Vol.
called Squinanton, or
Cumberland Head
XXXVII.).
The
known
show
April,
Lord Viscount
Townsend and
twenty-four
of the
Saranac River,
January
27, 1768,
De
Fredenburg,
captain
of
in
the
British army,
was a person
and
some pecunitime
766, to
ary means.
He was
one
of the
retinue of Gov.
New York
and Canada.
is
of
the Saranac
described as having
been sumptuously
and
taste.
Here,
" Falls,"
he lived
Saranac should
De
Fredenburgh's
nearest
neighbors at
this
time
were John La Frombois, who lived on the shore of the lake, a short distance south from Sax's Landing, in
Chazy, and William
Cross,
who
resided
on
As
PLATTSBURGH
Gilllland,
VILLAGE.
at the
mouth
of the
Salmon
ment by De Fredenburgh
permanently occupied.'
It
was never
have
no data from
which
De
Fredenburgh's residence,
made by him.
Revolution, and
He
re-
removed
his
commencement
war
of the
About
this
time
De
Fredensettle-
No
subsequent
in this
immediate vicinity
In
in
New
York,
raising
of
troops
for the
acts, offering
boun-
officers
and
soldiers
These bounties
of
that
of
in
such township
who
collectively
had
number
them
upon the
tract of land
De
"
PLATTSBURGH
his
VILLAGE.
Fredenburgh under
12th of
August
and
of that
year, procured
Letters
Patent were
issued
to
Zephaniah
on the
1784.
About
in
the
same
behalf of
himself,
Simon R.
to
lands
These two
tracts
called Plattsburgh,
Three
limits of
and Schuyler
of the
county
On
tors
met
at the inn of
John Simmons,
in the city of
New
an object
six
of
much
put one
upon every
hundred acres
its
date,"
De
by their
Gilli-
The
title
to
Lowe, an
officer
New
York,
in the
"
PLATTSBURGH
non-compliance
in
VILLAGE.
making such
to give to
At
this
meeting a
made
dam
and
mills
title
to the
Fredenburgh Falls
and
to
one hunits
mouth.
Piatt, Piatt,
Piatt
Simon
Israel
who met
agreed
"
the
Piatt
in
concerned
mill, grist-mill
river
summer, each
They
Piatt
moderate
and
to
Judge
company.
The expense
^100;
was estimated
Irons,
as
follows:
Millstones,
;
^125;
Nails,
Transportation,
$15
$65
Rum
$So}
On
and
to the
Fredenburgh
It
Falls mill-lot
of
was vested
the
in the twelve
by deed.
company
to
on the borders
Point,
of the lake,
Crown
known
!
as the
sixty-five for
bread
buildinjr a srist-niill.
8
"
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
1784, chapter 63, 4,]
State to take ore from that bed for the term of ten years.
Laws
"
which proved
its
is
much
;
quet,
mouth up
a
rift,
and, by carrying
produce a
raised
^
of about 10 feet,
may be
a
It
be enough for
mill."
At
dam was
built.
river, forty
or
fifty
A forge
was erected
on the west
saw-mill,
and a
some twenty or
These
mills
The frame
22d
of the saw-mill
of June, 1785,
and as the
of the Saranac."
The proprietors also set apart 997 acres, as gift lots, to the first persons who should settle on the patent, and laid
out 30
lots of
"
low
rate."
These
lots
included
some
The
were twelve
PLATTSBURGH
contained 6i
Street,
acres, lay north
VILLAGE.
lake shore.
was given
to Charles
Piatt,
who
which adjoined
three,
number one on
lot
the north.
Thomas
Allen.
This
Jabez Pettit
received
number
four,
which
also
named,
to
all
the territory
Number nine
contain-
This
lot
old
Beekmantown road on
the east.
Number
ten,
which
of the
Boynton
road.
Moses Soper.
number
territory
eleven, containing
the
on the
as the
bend
Brown. This
lot ex-
river,
given to Charles
Number twelve, which was also Piatt, who received numbers one and
ton road and included the east portion of the farm lately
lO
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
The 30
a
"
lots of
low
rate,"
all
"
Glebe
Of these
23, 1785,
lots
August
on the
Boynton
road,
lot
one
to
Peter
Roberts, lot
two to
lots
On
now
Daniel Averill,
eighteen to Daniel
;
Newcomb, lot fourteen to Mr. Saxton and on road or Rugar Street, lots nine, thirteen and
and
lot
the south
fifteen,
to
Jr.,
On
81
lots,
24,300 acres
among
themselves.
The
division
embraced
The
appor-
ballot.
19,46,72
2,700
acres.
15, 40,
Simon
74
900
Isreal
Zacheus Newcomb,
21,
16, 30,59,
900
acres.
acres.
51, 73
I,
900
Zephaniah
acres.
52,
63,3,42,663,600
acres.
John Addams,
and Son,
38,69
14, 35,
5,
39,
55,
900
acres.
Burnett Miller
23,
12,
62
900
Melancton Smith,
acres.
Barton,
32,
acres.
67
900
PLATTSBURGH
acres.
VILLAGE.
drance,
Berrien,
28,
57
900
acres.
and Andrew
Piatt,
Billings,
78
900
acres.
Nathaniel
3,600.
11,50,76,79,36,64,8,27,54,4,41,81
900
53
acres.
70
900
acres.
John Smith,
24, 45, 71
iel
18, 49,
900
acres.
900
9,
acres,
North rup,
34,61
900
and town
officers
duly elected.
The
first
town meet-
Tuesday
of June,
785.
and
Piatt Rogers,
Highways.
On
the ist
to the
day
of October, the
town clerk
of the public
highways
still
Many
in existence,
number, however,
which appear
never opened.
to have
been
laid
The
earliest
officers
have
of April.
was elected Supervisor; Kinner Newcomb, John Ransom, and Jacob Ferris, Assessors; John Ransom,
Clerk
;
Town
Ferris,
PLATTSBURGII
B.
VILLAGE.
ways
Darick
Webb
of Insolvent Estates
Thomas
Abraham Montee, Constables; Thomas Allen, Collector; Col. Edward Antill, Capt. Benjamin Mooers, and Major
Golvin, Commissioners of
trict
;
Roads
in the
Northern Dis-
Viewers
and Jacob
Ferris,
Jacob Ferris,
who owned
end
it.
of the
dam, and a
below
(See
Record
fulling-mill, dye-
same
to
Theodorus
Piatt,
1
October,
1792.
On
the
8th of
November,
796, Mr.
Mooers conveyed
Piatt.
to
Zephaniah
The
also
to
mill property
on the opposite
In
had
changed owners.
one hundred
Novem-
1797, the
title
the
acres, except
twelve building
lots, laid
title
in
79 1, and the
of so
much
had
in
been
Zephaniah
Theodorus
;
Piatt,
as tenants in
common
vided
half,
dam
at the
bend
of the
PLATTSBURGH
river
VILLAGE.
site of
feet
and new
198.)
race or canal
was
also
dug across
to " Clark's
its
mouth.
The
grist-mill, erected
about
fifty
feet
when
was changed
on
At
in
engaged
from the
when the building fell all escaped except Daniel Robinson, who was carried down the stream as far
mill,
shore.
When
The
"Governor" declared
and floated upon
probable,
still
that
when he found
to
to that point.
The
evidence of
its
truth.
This
was
for
many
one
"
stone."
While the
Piatt,
Theodorus
Piatt
now known
was
laid out
as the
" eight-and-one-half
acres mill-lot,"
and appropriated to
mill purposes.
PLATTSBURGH
all
VILLAGE.
upon both
title to
inclLidcd
river.
sides of the
became vested
ner
in
Levi Piatt.
The
Piatt
following
his title
:
the
manand
In 1797, as
one-half,
owned
Theodorus
Zephaniah
Piatt
Piatt, wdio
who conveyed
November, 1809.
He
who
L.,
as heir.
The
title to
the
remaining seven parts was acquired by Levi by commissioner's deed on a sale in partition.
Theodorus
Piatt
conveyed
out,
Barnadus Swart-
who conveyed
in June, 1804.
Levi
Piatt, in
December, 181
7.
The
elder
in
possession of his
one-fourth,
deed
to
S.
vember,
8 10.
partition suit.
ber, 181
7.
Suydam and Wickoff were parties to the They also joined in the deed of DecemBank
of
Plattsburgh acquired
title
the water-power in
the eight-and-one-half
acre
mill-lot,
and
on
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
The Trustees
of the
Bank subdivided
that portion
of the eight-and-one-half
acre lot adjacent to the river, and the lots on the north
side of Bridge Street into eight mill-lots,
and
after reserv-
suflficient for
eight
and two-thirds
On
number
Numbers
same
quantity,
last,
and number
five,
which
lay north
to three-elevenths.
On
number
six,
adjoinallot-
by the
mill-lots
trustees,
in
July, 1829.
The
grist-mill,
and the
numbers
one, six
At the time
of this
On
a brick building
lishment.
An
PLATTSBURGH
lot
VILLAGE.
oil-mill.^
Access was
had
to
and the
oil-mill.
These three
were
the east end of the dam, on lot one, and the grist-mill,
all
at this
dam.
An
end
of the
bridge,
and
a small
street.
side of the
bank
Upper
after
Island.
his purchase, con-
and
five.
He
also, in
1830, built a
dam about
half a
for saw-
Palmer sold
at the lower
on the north
dam,
to- Clark,
Reynolds
&
McGregor, who
similar building
Hill,
Stephenson
&
Board-
man on
lot
" five."
At
Isle
La Motte
The
oil-mill
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
three,"
building.
Here
C. S. Bliss
&
J.
when they
trans-
Bentley,
(1835)
Noyes
P.
Horace
Clark,
Boardman had
erected on
small
number "five;"
McGregor
woollen
factory.
&
Co. was in
full
as a
comb
Mooers occu-
on the
site of
Cor-
nelius Halsey
&
Owing
to
of the year,
few years.
mills
this
were
time,
shop
in rear of the
Fouquet building.
old saw-mill
It
continued so until
846,
when
F.
&
S.
W.
at that place.
After C. Halsey
&
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
when
it
in its })lace.
Having
of the
"
glanced
"
one hundred
acres,
which
is
directly connected
let
us return to the
when
lots
These
extended west as
acres,
far as the
west
line of the
one hundred
the
now bounded
the
brow
Broad
Street,
and east by
Margaret
erhoff Street,
and that
all
line
They
contained in
of
Although these
1791,
1797,
I
lots
were surveyed
and apportioned
in
was occupied
until
Court House,
of
number
the
five
was conSeptem-
veyed
to Mrs.
month
in
of
ber following.
The
of
Reed's
upon
store, sub-
sequently occupied
Piatt
&
Piatt.
Theodorus
had a small
PLATTSBURGH
this
store.
VILLAGE.
the unoc-
At
on the
south road."
Near
Roberts had
Beyond were
lots.
several dwellings
on the south
" of
side of
building lots
the
mill proprietors.
lots,
These he had
which
laid
or
&
Mooers, as a
store..
Next
1
east,
of
Next
east of
Mr
Sailly 's,
as a
Court-House and
Jail.
On
the
built a
house upon
pied by
ern.
river,
" "
Israel
Green, as a tav-
back
Clark's Landinsf."
There were
two
buildinurs
on
In
lot
September,
793,
20
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
wliicli
Lansing, upon
he erected a
Piatt
built
Zephaniah
as
the
"homestead,"
now known
the
"government
house."
These
Up
;
to this
no
streets
the only
thoroughfares
common
"
highways, leading
proprietors' mills,"
in
were
called.
numroaid,"
One known
another
the
"
Cumberland Head
South
known
as
"
Street,"
which lead
another
inter-
known
known
bank
of the river
mouth
of the
There was
Theodorus
margin
also a short
and Roberts's
was a
Although
become a place
of
considerable
importance.
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
the
St.
Lawrence on the
west.
here, at
citizens of the
county
as-
ashes and furs for export, and sending, yearly, long rafts
of timber to the of the ten
Quebec market.
When
St.
the inhabitants
Lawrence
peti-
county
of
St.
"
upon the
jurors
extreme
troubles
and expenses,
attending at
Platts-
to, in
burgh
for arranging
business."
tants of
Crown
Point,
in the organization of
Essex County.
relieved
the
Crown
vol.
ii.
p.
324,
the
village,
and
first
settlers,
in
the
following
quaint language
"
They have
glass
kind
among
among
themselves
Polite
all
the
materials
for
excepted.
circles
may
22
PLATTSBURGII
VILLAGE.
This was
Plattsburgh in 1792.
*'
known that New York was originally a Slave State." The " institution," however, never flourIt is
well
result,
continue the slave-trade, attributable more to the influence of climate, than to the principles of the people.
same
among the hills and snows of his Franklin County lands. The influence of a northern
1
7,
all
if
number
was
In
fifty-
this county.
1800, the
eight.
number
in this
From
number gradually
decreased.
In
810, as
The town
show
that
negro
man
his
September
Hick bought
Judge
for seventeen
pounds
(^42.50).
Judge Treadwell,
man York ;
Brist
in April, 1803,
and
PLATTSBURGH
Will, in
VILLAGE.
23
November, 1804.
"
On
Gin
"
negro
girl,
Ann,^'
and Robert
1806.
Piatt
gave
her freedom, in
May,
On
Zephaniah
manumitted
Cato,
and
in
May
of the
same
Some
of these are
still
living
of
and reside
in this
county.
named Sir George Provost a compliment of which the commander of the British forces at the siege of Plattsburgh
was probably never informed, and could
fully appreciate.
I
not, therefore,
in 1798.
One
of
bounds
Broad
D. Woodward.
This
latter
was erected
when
night within
for
its
walls.
from fan-
cied danger.
The one on
first
intended for a
[See act
passed March
of Clinton
3,
24
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
Plattsburgh, to be used as a
jail,
&c.]
It
was afterwards
and as a place
of public
1
worship.
796.
At
and that
it
be used as a Poor-
House.
On
met
men
of the
county
and
Melancton L. Wool-
who,
in turn, "
swore
in "
Then
the
signed the
that they
renounced
to "
all
of
and
deputies
;
John
Fontfreyde
Piatt,
coroners
Theodorus
as surrogate
Peter Sailly,
liam
New-
comb, as deputy
clerk.
The
first
Court
of Sessions
for the
county
of Clinton
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
Judge Chas.
2$
Piatt presided,
was held
in
October,
788.
Piatt,
assisted by
Theodorus
Sheriff,
and Melancton
L. Woolsey, Clerk.
The
Of the
latter
sixteen were sworn in and one was set aside " for refusing
to take the oath of allegiance."
first
grand
New
York, closed
its
members
term
conduct.
They were
of the court,
when
fined.
The
on the part
grand and
overlooked.
and
officers.
The
records are
filled
jurymen.
always
day,"
this
and
day
two others,
in
same
offense.
At
who remembers
that,
in
1828, he
was indicted
for the
/lorse-race,''
and
trots
of
our agricultural
The minutes
of the
inveig-
What
26
PLATTSBURGH
to
VILLAGE.
is
tempted
wheedle with
soft words,
not stated.
It
was evidently
Judge
Su-
of
the
Terms
of this
Lansing,
James Kent,
Wm.
N.
Van
John Woodworth.
his first
These Courts
were held
at the old
jail
Block-House
until 1803,
House and
ing
lots.
It
order of General
in
fire
1
siege of Plattsburgh,
8 14,
in 1836.
At
uninjured, and
House.'
The
ment
He was
to be confined
in the jail of
Albany County
counterfeiters.
At the June term, 1808, Smith Thompson presiding, Thomas Munsel, David Judge
to
no mercy
of this offense
in
Willsborough."
PLATTSBURGII
VILLAGE.
life in
27
the State
to be
imprisoned for
New
attempt-
and 1837,
and seventeen
in
for
breaking
jail.
Of the
last, six
escaped
Jail
the
fall
of
1828.
The
last
was a "General
the prison.
In olden
times, the
The
the
rooms
;
to
officers
As
way through
surrounding
the dust or
mud
of the
unpaved
streets, the
citizens of "
Sweet Au-
when they looked upon the well-filled head of the village master. Although many of the forms and ceremonies of those early days were not in harmony
with the republican character of the people, there was
much
bar.
I
to
admire
in
manner
of
the
of the care
oned debtors.
The
records of the
Common
of the
Pleas
show
that immediately
new Court-
28
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
yard and
liberties."
The passage
and was to
in force until to a
was confined
be in a
to a
in width,
strait line.
were extended
one half
of a mile
in all
directions,"
more
when
Another instance
sympathy
of
The
him by
On
appli-
made by
was entered
"May
The
in the
minutes
of the court
7,1805. The defendant having been committed (?;/ suxpicion of stealing a horse, was, on appearances of favorable circumstances, admitted
1
jail limits,
ity of the
" From the Court-House south to the at that time house of Abram Travis, and from there to the houses occupied by Caleb Nichols, Marinus F. Durand, John Nichols, George Marsh, Theodorus Piatt, Jesse Kilburn, Benjamin Wood, and the new house owned by said Kilburn (corner Broad and Margaret streets), and the brew-house (opposite the present Post Office) also, north from the Court-House, to include the house lately occupied by Chauncey Fitch and now by Kilney Grey, and thence eastwardly, to the houses occupied by David Broadwell, Abraham
Court-House
Beeman, Peter
Sailly,
James Savage, and Charles Parsons, Jr." On the " the forge, mills and buildings belonging to the works
on the north side of the forge ditch, also, the fulling-mill and shop, and Israel Green's house and lot, and the saw-mill on the river, near the bridge, and the grist-mill and dam."
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
;
29
to bail, and found sureties in $50 for his appearance at this Court but being: afterwards threatened, in consequence of an amour, he was forced to fly. The Court thereupon discharge the sureties from their recognizance, but order it continued against the principal. Court then rose till 2 o'clock in the after-
noon."
of the feeliiiijs o
;
of a
and can we
wonder that
after
such an exhibition of
!
its
sympathy, the
who was
admit-
Eleazer
by attorneys residing
cuit with the judges.
at a distance,
who
the Clinton
County
and
John Warford
Sperry
in
in
1805;
Julius C. Hubbell
1808;
The
John
jamin
were Doctors
Miller,
J.
Chauncey
and Ben-
Mooers.
The
in
County
of
Medical Society,
ber, 1807.
this village,
Octo-
of
medi-
the
summer
of
1806, and
in
to practice
medicine
Jan-
81
2.
He
Doctor
Miller.
30
TLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
and
fish of
In the
months
of June, July,
in large
ber,
spear. ^
The water
at the
mouth
of sufificient
depth to
day.
of the river,
and
on the
south side.
About
the year
1810,
Nathaniel Z. Piatt
built a store-house
on
"
The
raid, in 181 3,
rebuilt.
Carlisle
of the
D. Tylee
river,
1
built a
at the
mouth
near the
site of
8 16, and in
August
commenced charging
1
for
goods landed
there.
In the winter of
8 1 7-1
8, Mr.
Piatt
" for
the purpose
permanent wharf
for the
accommodation
summer.
who were
&
Ransom,
price
Salmon were caught here in large numbers had increased to one shilling per pound.
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
his.
the perspiration from his forehead. a paper dropped from his hat.
his
Gilliland adroitly
up
unobserved.
was found
mode
of
map of
It
the
encampin the
ment and
was
moved
liberty,
He was no
March, 18 14.
With the militia called out at the time of this raid, came Capt. Sherry's company of N. Y. State
Infantry.
When
he addressed his
men
with
few soul-inspir-
them
to "'fight or
It
was
The men
32
PLATTSBURGH
if
VILLAGE.
report
is
true, did
they
men under
it.
his
seemed
lion
"
to require
An
I
officer
rebel-
and
am
little
lame,
will start
now."
It is
many
years boats
re-
passing through the lake did not enter our bay, but
Cumberland Head.
The
"
Head
"
occupied a
Stores
prominent place
1786-7 by Peter
Sailly,
John
was
for
many
of
Champlain, where
entries
Isle
by
ferry.
Many
F.
of the
most prominent
Marinus
August,
8 15,
of the
notice through
Republican',' that he
would run a
the partic-
" for
accommodation
of passengers in
the steamboats."
its
location,
and the
intelligence, enterprise
and industry
of its inhab-
PLATTSBURGH
itants, the
first
VILLAGE.
was very gradual
1,
33
for the
growth
of the village
twenty-five years.
In 181
dwelling-houses, 4 hotels,
offices.
Among
Fouquet
&
Green,
Samuel Moore
White, John
&
McCreedy
&
McDowell, Lewis
Piatt
&
Smith,
Trowon
bridge
Si
Seymour,
hatters,
occupied
is
building
now
Brinkerhoff Street.
The manufacturing
Broad
mill.
on
grist-mill
and a
fulling-
The
company
lands not
appropriated to mill purposes, were subdivided into building lots by Pliny Moore, William Bailey, and William
Keese,
the
is
Supreme Court
as commissioners in partition.
What
it
now known
as
the
"
bv the commissioners
1,
at this time.
the village,
at
which
Peter
Miller,
William
Bailey,
and Levi
Piatt,
authority to raise
money by voluntary
Academy building.
The committee
selected a lot on
Oak
34
Street, to
street
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
"
a contemplated
to be laid
lot
Melancton
Smith and
number
owned by Abraham
York.
Brinckerhoff,
Jr.,
of the city of
New
The
lot
was
Oak
Street,
On
academy thereon."
The
pleted the
same
year.
The
Samwas
front-
It
and twenty-seven
and
ed on
Oak
Street.
wide
hall ran
of the
upper story,
by a broad stairway
At
the time of
its
erection the
Academy was
the largest
New
York.
summer
as principal teacher.
PLATTSBURGII
VILLAGE.
of
35
Doct John
The Rev.
J.
David Savage,
of
The
first
temperance society
in the
A preliminary meeting
5,
was held
of October, 181
at
jamin Mooers presided, and Silas Hubbell, Esq., of Champlain, acted as Secretary.
to
re-
month
of January.
The
December
day
16.
It
those
"
bummers
The committee
consumption of ardent
at 30,000 gal-
including
women and
at the
children.
it
The
made
made
in vain.
The convention
"
was held
Society
"
County Moral
of
which
was long
36
PLATTSBURGII
VILLAGE.
when
of
Board
Incorporation,
is
Griflfin,
Heman
William
F.
Haile,
Henry K.
living
Averill.
Sailly,
Mr.
who
is
of Trustees,
and Mr.
Averill,
who
Western
States.
of trustees of the
The Board
Plattsburgh Academy,
The
leading
men have
hold words
filled this
;
office,
and
their
names
"
lifetime, asso-
and
for
many years
life,
its
presiding
officer.
also,
during his
identi-
The present Board are Frederick L. C. Sailly, Doct. Truman DeForris, Cornelius Halsey, Peter S. Palmer,
William
W.
F.
Hartwell, Smith M.
Vilas,
Weed, George
L. Clark,
Samuel
The
internal
arrangement
of the
rooms
of the
Acade-
my was
At
first,
as
we have
PLATTSBURGH
stated, there
VILLAGE.
37
who wished
down.
to
reside in the
building
to be again torn
Academv,
of the citizens.
first
head teach-
of
81
7.
On
school
was
organized on the
"
was organized,
in the
mornof
the
ably the
Sunday-school
the county.
in the
opened a school
Academy,
for
the instruction of
young
and
ornamental branches
In November, 181
of education."
7,
December,
by A. C. Fowler,
who remained
in
charge for a
year or more,
when Alexander H.
ed principal, with
David Brock as
At
this
38
time, Miss
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
Deming taught
in
charge of the
Academy until
After
a private classi-
Clinton County
High School,"
at
He
and was
place.
for
some time
that
in the
Academy by
Jona-
The number
Of
cluding Margaret Davidson, the gifted poetess, her brother, Levi P. Davidson, afterwards
an
officer in the
U.
S.
officer in
the
known to have died. Of those of the classes of 1832, now living, we call to mind Samuel B. M. Beckwith and Doct. George Howe, now
Reg't U.
S. Artillery, are
of
Chateaugay
A.
J.
C.
Blackman,
;
of
Mooers
Joseph K.
of
Oswego
Hon. D.
B.
McNeil, of Auburn
of
SamCity;
uel
Piatt
New York
John White,
som, of Peru
Cleveland, Ohio
Rev. Cyrenus
Ran-
Hagar, John
W. Lynde,
S.
Palmer,
of this town.
charge of the
Academy
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for several years,
VILLAGE.
in
39
somewhat rapid
Robert T. Co,
Foster, and
in
Rev
Dr. Coit.
On
the 5th of
as
known
Dor-
W.
joint
management
of the
at-
in i860,
Edward
McDonald in 1865, E. A. Adams in 1869, W. L. R. Haven in 1867, W. M. Lillebridge in 1869, and Oscar Atwood in 1871.
Nichols
in
1861, F.
G.
in the village,
and
vest-
Academy
five
Board
of Education,
composed
of ten
members,
district,
to be elected
five to
of the
and
their
own number.
Academy
building
The
ing,
fire
November
10,
187
1.
Two
lots
Academy
the foundation of a
of the year 1873.
at a cost
of $35-ooc)>
aii<^l
opened
1
September
i,
1875.
history
The
year 181
in the
of the village.
The
40
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
establishments,
this
time,
new
activity
citizens.
The
time
;
building of the
preparations
Academy was commenced at this were also now made for the erection
worship, and for the estab-
number
of
gentlemen
con-
met by appointment
sider
house of Peter
Sailly, to
Be-
meeting Col.
Melancton
Charles
Miller,
Smith,
Judge
Kinner
Newcomb,
General
Judge
Thomas
Treadwell,
and
Benjamin
Chazy, and
Mooers, of
Champlain.
stock
company
was organized, and a press and type having been purchased, the
first
number
of the
Plattsbtirgh Republicmt
was
issued.
at first
under the
editorial
became the
about
have before
5 to 1820.
me broken
From
files
I
of
the
Republican
from 181
ter of
1
these
village
and the
city of Montreal,
making two
trips
each
week.
' A small sheet had been started here in 1807, called the American Monitor^ which was discontinued after a feeble existence of less than two years.
PLATTSBURGII
VILLAGE.
manded by
every
Monday and
to land
John's
Cumberland
Head
freight.
new
Phoe-
Capt.
J.
Whitehall and
the Vermont,
John's.
and was
*'
advertised
uncommon
fitted
up
The
boat
each week.
What was
those days,
may be
it
of the
wonder
to
New York
Thomp-
Albany
I
hours
January, 1823, Jonathan
commenced running
a stage once
This
line
connected
and the
St.
Lawrence."
Mr.
Thompson announces
42
riages, strong
"
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
and
"
roads for a
new
trips
country."
made two
each week.
tri-
was
first
in July, 1837.
The
thoush
a
his
"
cov-
condition,
those whose
business led
them through Chateaugay woods. In 1811, law had been passed, requiring the managers of the
of
Chateaugay, under
anothe-i" act
had been
money,
in
anticipation of
the drawing
of the
lottery.
amount thus furnished was found inadequate Yet nothing for the construction of a passable road. further was done until 181 7, when the road was im-
The
small
under
command
of
and men,
of the
distance
of
had
been completed.
In March,
1822, the
sum
$7000
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
be expended
"
43
in
legislature, to
One-half of this
sum was
By an
to
passed February
14,
Clinton
Common
or near
toll-o-ate " at
dwelling-house of
Benjamin H. Mooers,
From
that
in
good
repair
by
the
tolls.
It
was an avenue
to
of travel of great
importance
and benefit
of Franklin County,
and
until the
completion of
the
Ogdensburgh
railroad,
route of com-
Law-
The
that of
first
James Dougherty, a
wood.
181
to
3,
He was
Judge
tried
at
the June
Jamesv..I,r/?nt presiding,
August
of the
same
year,
and
his
body delivered
to the
" for
shore on the
1
"
8 14,
the British
Army
44
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
He
was hung on the sand ridge between Court and Brinkerhoff Streets in the
villaG:e.
In July, 181
3,
his father
jail,
the
county
man named
Peter Miller,
Champlain.
August
of
married soon
the winter
of
and remained
in
Canada
He was
immediately arrested
indicted,
and recommitted
tried
to
jail,
was
and convicted,
at
a Court of
Judge Ambrose Spencer presiding, held was sentenced to be hanged on the 26th
June, and
of July.
His
to
On
to
Grand
Isle,
assembled
numbers
of
its
by hanging himself
Pik'2
in his cell.
James
1
81
5,
1,
82
murder on the 30th June, before Judge Jonas Piatt, and acquitted. In June, George Hyde was tried for manslaughter before
was
tried for
and
sentenced to
On
the
8th
of
March,
1825,
Peggy Facto
was
publicly executed.
for the
PLATTSBURGII
VILLAGE.
It
45
murder
of
aggravated crime.
string tied around
into the
fire,
The
its
it
infant
was
first
strangled by a
where
was
partially
consumed.
The
concealed under a
She was
tried at the
and sentenced by Judge Reuben H. Walworth, on Saturday, the 23d by the sentence of the Court, her dead
body was
and members
on the arsenal
lot
on Broad
Street.
and acquitted
at the
same term
of the Court.
On
the
28th June, 1826, Elvira Steel was indicted for the murder
of a Mr. Carter, keeper of the Plattsburgh Poor-House.
She was
tried at
the
acquitted, on the
In
as
accessory.
On
the
Houghton was acquitted. The trial continued several days. Houghton was defended by Judge Lynde
and Mr. Swetland,
of this village,
Ezra C. Gross,
of
Essex
Dominy was
discharged
from custody.
lot
on
on the 23d
of
March, 1834,
for the
murder
tried
Leander Shaw,
his son-in-law.
He had
been
46
PLATTSBURGH
at the
VILLAGE.
To
the scaffold by the
and sentenced
for the
murder
of his
to
yard.
was erected
confession,
in in
written
of the
It
murder, which
was published
meditated
act.
was a
cool, pre-
at the at
October Oyer
Falls, of
Schuyler
Margaret Rock, a
tried before
girl
He was
to
Judge James,
the next
was sentenced
day
of
March, 1855.
He
was hung
in the at
Court-House
of
yard,
the execution
Levert.
under date
of
January
are
24, 18
7,
says
"
much
distressed for
poorer
and laboring
of obtaining
means
col-
it
sells for."
The
umns
of
of the "
Republican
the
season.
PLATTSBURGIi
VILLAGE.
tlie
47
atmos-
backward.
phere
at
On
Plattsbiirgh
was
filled
and
it
of doors
without a sreat-
coat.
Vermont
"
still
more
severe.
it fell.
On
Thursday
the
snow
Much snow
forenoon in
fell
in the
many
In Williston
it
was twenty,
at
and
in
The ground
far as
Mont-
pelier
of yester-
day (June
can be seen,
can of July
13,
This
No
rain
fell
The
earth
in clay soils,
opened
in
large cracks
swamps were
and the
became
so low that
to the mills of
farmers residing as
and meadow
after the
lands.
No
any consequence
fell
until
loth of October.
The atmosphere,"
"
says the
Republican of October
5th,
has been so
filled
with
fires in
in this village, for three or four days the first of the pres-
ent week,
tinguish a
it
would be
difficult
in
the
morning
to dis-
man
On
48
PLATTSBURGII
VILLAGE.
The bounds
past the
"
by
tended north
and west
residence of
Samuel Lowell
"
Boynton's),
first
and west
The
of
May
known as " The Ark," and then kept by David Douglass. At this election, William Bailey, Jonathan Griffin, John Palmer, Reuben H. Walworth, Levi Piatt, Samuel Moore,
and Eleazer
Sperry, clerk.
Miller,
were chosen
trustees,
and Giliad
[The bounds
of the village
were materially
One
scales.
our
"
village fathers,"
was
to
Court-House.
It
stalls,
The
quired to be weighed.
These
scales
were an old-fashioned,
clumsy
affair,
ground.
scales, a turnpike
enormous growth,
mark the
deliberations ui
PLATTSBURGIi
VILLAGE.
49
summer
of the
of 1817,
when
it
United
while
States, Mr.
village,
on a tour
an
A meeting
of the trustees
was
called, a
committee
a
of reception appointed,
sum
of
for the
On
command
of
Captain
Newman
S.
Clark,
Captain
Sperry's
As he
young
ladies of
at
De Lords.
All this
is
columns
of the Repiiblican.
of the reception
At
At two
o'clock he reached a
50
PLATTSBURGH
erected,
VILLAGE.
for his party
had been
by
The
site
Republican,
casion,
"
on the margin
its
gently breaking, by
murmurs, the
the sur-
rounding
" In
forest,"
elo-
so congenial
;
age looses
its
caution, philosophy
taken
off
its
Evidently
"
President resumed
The
"
it
up, in
that
murmuring
brook."
Speaking
says
:
Mr. Waldo
" In
the woods in
route towards
"
Prosecuting his
up
in a superior style
by the
ofiBcers of the
army and
it
He
partook of
with
trymen by
whom
he was surrounded
and acknowledged
PLATTSBURGH
this
VILLAGE.
civility
academy,
three
fulling-
printing-offices, a flouring-mill,
two saw-mills, a
oil-mill,
retail
mill
chines, three
lery.
stores,
referred
to,
The
distillery
the south shore of the river, near the outlet of the o-risto mill race. Kennedy advertises to give " five quarts of
whiskey
his
merchantable corn,"
in
or,
if
customers desired, he
payment."
Piatt
&
& Hyde
the
in
same
Noble David
The
tanneries
of
this year.
Kennon
engaged
for sale.
Samuel
Green
Emery and
Among
Cady
the
&
Brinkerhoff, Mat-
thew M. Standish,
&
4
H.
Piatt,
D.
&
J.
Backus,
&
Wm.
52
PLATTSBURGII
VILLAGE.
H. Morgan,
J.
Samuel
R. C.
Hull,
Hoar
sold boots
Dave
"
Langdon
was the
village cartman.
if
we might judge
in the
Plattsburgk Republican
26th
"
We
We
And when
it
did
come
Reference has already been made to the manufacturing establishments in the village in 1835.
At
that time
Ephraim Buck was President of the village, William F. Haile, Heman Cady, Samuel Emery and F. L. C. Sailly
were Trustees, and George M. Beckwith was Clerk.
The
Hicks,
Andrew Moore, Sailly & Samuel Hinman and D. L. Fouquet, who occu-
Heman
store in the
;
Lawrence Myers,
in the old
cor-
Piatt,
Thomas Goldsmith on
;
the corner of
Street
William H. Morgan, \X
on River
PLATTSBURGII
VILLAGE.
53
a cabinet
Michael Kearney.
store, with
also cabinetmakers.
There
kept by
;
John
Witherell
McKee, on
Cumberland House, and Fouquet's Stage House. Amos A. Prescott was the village jeweller and bookseller,
of
Brin-
the
six milliners
and dressmakers,
five
wheelwrights,
three tanners and curriers, four saddle and harness makers, four
joiners, six
head masons,
two
tin shops,
Doct. Thomas,
to
which we
have before
referred,
was
"
Sir
George Provost."
Of the learned
The
population
was about
2,500.
Nearly
all
54
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
The
loss
by
fire
one million
In the
of dollars.
summer
hours,
mand
of
twenty-four
Broad
of the lake,
longing to Peter
Z. Piatt.
Sailly,
Major N.
In the
month
of
fired
from
the
fire
American works.
The
house
of
of
Jonathan
and dwelling-house
fifteen buildings
The
dwelling-house of
was
also
The
first fire
within
my
recollection occurred
on the
when
the
home-
One month
later,
on the night
of the
fire.
the
amount
owner
were offered by
Judge Levi
Piatt, the
and by
citizens
PLATTSBURGH
of the
villao^c.
VILLAGE.
rebuilt,
55
The
mill
was imniediatelv
of
and
was
in operation in the
month
November
following.
I.
The
The main
sumed.
fire.
I
portion, fronting
on Margaret
Street,
was con-
am
About
dy,
the year 1832, the hotel of Jeremiah McCreeat the foot of River Street,
which stood
was destroyed.
buildino^,
known
as
hotels
The
fire
extended
to
and con-
sumed
Dur-
midway between
Mill Alley,
was burned.
&
Richardson, and
wooden
lory as an oil-mill,
of the
burned
at this time.
The
fire
in
fire,
On
the
17th of
The
in the
fire
caught
in
the
afternoon.
The
56
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
The
inside
was
and a stone
jail
$8,000.
The
store
of
Hugh McMurry
on the corner of
W.
on the
ith
day
of July, 1841.
fire
The
grist mill
on Friday,
September
2d, 1842.
On
This
fire
caught
re-
in the
basement.
No-
trifling losses
made by
the memorable
August
10,
in four
When
the
alarm was
in
sounded the
fire
ground
floor of
little
wind
at the time,
of a conflagration
From
this
building the
extended to one
and also
to a small
wooden
consumed.
few
feet south,
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
P.
57
in
wool,
from the
mill ix)nd,
At about
half-past
12 o'clock,
The whole
of
From
trill's
store
and
J.
H. Mooers, drug
it
store.
No
water
now became
Moss K.
Margaret
drug
store,
on the corner
of
Bridge and
streets,
on Margaret street, owned and occupied by Terance Conway, as a grocery and dwelling-house, were soon
flames.
in
By
this
on the roof
Bailey,
of a
block of brick
owned by James
From
one
of
River
Street,
Margaret
cinders set
fire to
Park.
At two
The
loss
on
this
on Bridge
5^
Street,
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
Averill
;
James
Fitch
Bailey, dry
goods
&
Sprague, dry
goods
goods.
seller
tailor;
&
Cook, hardware
On
Margaret Street,
;
Amos
and jeweller
Guy Dunham,
William H. Morgan
;
&
William
;
&
L.
On
the
Mrs.
Green
occupied by tenants.
dwelling
;
On
Andrew
Bird's
While
rapidly
side of
this
fire
was
making
way
L. Coo-
hat store
Nichols
&
;
Vilas
&
Crosby, whole-
ment buildings
burned.
in
on
Mill
Alley
were also
The
Street,
fire
crossed
in
of
Bridge
and caught
Ami
time
Beauchamp,
it
as a tailor's shop.
At about
the
same
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
59
for
some
side of
distance.
The
Margaret
Street,
A.
Webb's
store
and dwelling
;
William Reed's
dwelling
J.
Goslin's barber
and dwelling.
These were
all
wooden
buildings.
William Palmer
"
&
stone row
"
;
William
Charles C.
;
George Moore's
D. Hoag's grocery
Beauchamp's
tailor shop,
and
Dill's
dwelling-house on Court
occupied by George
W.
On Church
;
Young Ransom
blacksmith shop
bly's
;
N. Richardson's
wagon shop
Tierney's
building, occupied
On
wagon
Durand
The
ofifices
of the Plattsburt;h
lV/n<^,
were de-
The
progress of the
60
fire
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
of stone stores,
was
arrested,
and on
house.
Cluirch
by
it
pulling
down
to
the
Tero
itself.
In other directions
seemed
exhaust
of
1
The fine brick residence of M. K. Piatt, on the corner Macdonough and Macomb Street, was burned on the
In August,
856, a fire destroyed a block of four stores,
on Margaret
D.
S.
street,
owned by
Mc Masters,
the
all
1
Francis McCadden.
On
fire
occurred, which
consumed
lately
W.
Hor-
The
fire
morning,
in the
basement
owned by
J.
two
ings
stores,
Borde, James
On
other
was anat
fire
by Mr. Wolcott
by George
W. Day
as a carpenter's shop,
1 ;
PLATTSBURGII
VILLAGE.
6
of
June
fire.
The
was estimated at
On Wednesda}^
which again reduced
the
21st day
of
August,
1867,
occurred,
The
fire
The
fire
was
first
buildings.
of
its
The
Presbyterian
valuable furniture
From
B.
D. Clapp's dwelling on
Oak
Street,
and N. Nusbaum's
of
two houses
of
Wm.
Oak
on
L.
M. Cooley's house
Henry H.
Piatt's,
Story's
house
M. K.
occupied
by
five families
Joseph
the blacksmith
&
Roberts
Major
Learment
&
62
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
shoe shop.
On
Brinckerhoff Street
two
buildings in
also
Wm.
Bell's
marble shop.
On
Street
Blake's block,
Brinkerhoff
store,
J.
Stieet, occupied
E.
&
Edw^ards, hardware
Shiff's
William D. Morgan's
store,
Joseph
market,
residence, E.
store, Breed's
&
Co.'s
ry store in the
office
of the fire
The
fire
Margaret
&
Co.,
grocery and
Lynde
&
Co., wholesale
J.
grocery store,
clothing
Weaver
store,
&
Hall's
grocery store,
H.
Cottrill's
J. J.
store, Tilley's
bookstore,
Co.,
Rothschild
H.
W. Cady &
drug
store.
Noel Bessett's
also their store-
harness shop, H.
W. Gregory &
Co., office
Noel's tavern on
Water
Street
was
also
consumed.
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
63
the
The names
ground
Bridge Streets.
offices,
who occupied
on Margaret and
many
among which
will
name The
with
&
Wm.
M. Desmond,
Doct. E. M.
of C.
and
Weed &
Halsey:
Howard's and
Bixby
s
Doctor
Young
and
the Masonic
Hall, with
furniture,
the
Library of the
Men's Association,
J.
W.
"
A, G. Carver's printing
office.
The
of
editor of the
each individual,
^1,550
is
the aggregate
offices,
;
Jylarkets,
;
law
boots
saloons, $7,600
druggists, $10,000;
;
galleries,
$10,000
clothing, $10,250
harness
$28,912:
real estate,
theft, $1 1,01 3
$192,893; loss by
;
re-
grand
total,
$469,861.
$241,625, divided
proportions, how-
The
day
of
next
fire
December, 1868, when the United States Hotel was totally consumed. This was followed, one month and later, January 26, 1869, by the burning of Scheier's
Meron's brick
stores,
on Margaret Street.
Three weeks
64
after this
fire,
PLATTSBURGH
on the i6th day
VILLAGE.
of February,
two stores
in
on Bridge
This
Street,
fire
nearly
all
their contents.
ing store.
L. Cooley
The
&
Wm.
the
On
fire
destroyed the
St., direct-
store
owned by Nichols
&
Lynde, on Margaret
the
December
previous.
Hymen
At
Brothers.
II
March
end
2,
1870, a fire
was discovered
basement
of a building
on the north
of the Bridge,
owned by D.
same
J. J.
S.
&
Lan-
Drown,
and shoe
March,
store,
were burned.
fire
On Monday
covered
night,
28, 1870, a
was
dis-
meat market,
in the stone
row on Margaret
which
con-
its
fire,
23, 1871,
caught
of
Streets, occupied
by Joseph
W.
Daller, as a saloon
and
dwelling,
consuming a portion
of the roof
On Wednesday
morning, March
29,
about
o'clock, an-
PLATTSBURGH
other
fire
VILLAGE.
65
broke out
in the
same
On Thursday
one o'clock, a
fire
afternoon,
August
22,
871, at half-past
caught
in
on Jay Street, destroying the entire stock of lumber and the lumber sheds. The Gas Works, Frank Palmer's barn, and also five small dwelling-houses, between old and new
Bridge Streets, east of Fouquet's barn.
^20,000, principally in lumber.
Loss about
Insurance $15,450.
About
Aug.
25, 187
1,
an
Morrill's
Billiard
Room, on
store.
It
successful, probably
number
of
buildings
On
871, the
Academy
was destroyed by
The
fire is
On
dam was
burned.
The
cov-
ered bridge was also burned at this time, and was replaced
the next year by an iron bridge.
On
ing to John Mallory and his assignees, "the sole and exclusive right" to furnish the inhabitants of the village of
"
by means
of conduits or aqueIMr.
The
legislature
Mallory
66
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
any banking powers or
water was
fur-
privileges whatsoever."
Under
this act,
On
was held
at the
Court House,
supplying
to
take into
of
the
At
this meeting,
citizens.
This committee
was adopted.
The
act
of April,
1868.
[Laws
1868,
p.
502.]
By
were author-
ized to appoint a
Board
Commissioners, consisting of
was made
to prepare a plan,
who
were to express, by
or refusal to the
were authorized
to ratify
as the commissioners
of land
raise
purchase
sum
necessary to
The
act vested
of
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
67
works were so
far
completed as
to be in
opera-
tion, when
management were
to be trans-
On
W.
I
Water Commissioners.
ith day of August,
electors of the village,
They
works.
$2,500 00
Bulkhead
at
gate,
200 00
16,000 00
6,500 00
40.633 31
16,132 25
setting,
2,200 00
1
,400
00
2,000 00
6,400 00
1,00000
^.965
56
As
some
the
work progressed,
it
of expense
of the
68
the
PLATTSBURGH
VILI.AGE.
work
required.
It
was
also
deemed advisable
to
change the
A
of
in
Hammond
hill,
instead
size laid
single
one, as at
first
contemplated.
The
some
of the
streets,
not at
intended to be supplied.
Distributing
and a well house and waste drain constructed which no estimate had been made.
at the
reservoir, for
The
number
village.
of hydrants
to 60, in order
to afford
more complete
These changes and additions were made by the Commissioners, after consulting with
in order to carrying
out
whole
for
village an
of water
To meet
is-
[Chap-
and chapter
the office of
of
Water
Decem-
W. Gregory was
of
appointed Superin-
the construction
the works
1
there
was
laid
pipe
in
all
eighty-six feet.
Of the cement
pipe,
^0
of the outlay.
PLATTSBURGH
It will
VILLAGE.
from
fires,
and the
abundant supply
of water at
all
The two
Ham-
mond's, about two and one-half miles west from the Court
feet
The
deep.
north Reservoir
feet
and 104
the top,
voir
is
by 108
feet at the
filled to
13 feet
Its capacity,
is
when
The south
and 108
Reser-
at the top,
is
feet
by
no
feet at the
also
13 feet deep.
With
filled
II feet of
water
When
3.596,000 gali
The
outside
embankments have a
slope of 2 to
at the top.
all
The supply
wants
of
the
With
three mil-
Hammond's,
and ready
the Fire
to
under a pressure
pounds
King
will
streets, as
he did
in
CHURCHES.
Presbyterian.
On the
the
and
to
form a
1 s
PLATTSBURGH
corporation by the
VILLAGE.
name and
At
this
meeting,
Piatt,
Nathaniel
Piatt,
Melancton
were
Averill,
chosen
trustees.
of Deeds, Liber
this
A., p. 285.]
time, but
two years
Long
and
set-
He
permanently
was
installed as
month
The church
then consisted of
eighteen persons, to
the
first
whom
dav
of October,
tlie
1797.
The names
eighteen,
who formed
New
Hubbard, John
Stratton,
Hageman, Catherine Marsh, Lucretia Miller, Phebe Piatt, Esther Stratton, Mary Addams, Stephen and Mrs. Mix,
Martha Coe, William
bie's Discourses.]
Pitt Piatt,
[Do-
A
at the
Court
House, "where
the
Rev.
Mr.
Halsey
At
this
The
John Addams,
72
PLATTSBUKGII
VILLAGE.
Thomas
Liber
B.,
Miller,
of
Deeds,
518.]
Owing
of
to
some informality
in the pro-
John G. Freleigh, Elias Woodruff, Sebe Thompson, Jonathan Grifhn, William Pitt Piatt, and Benjamin Mooers,
were elected
this year the
trustees.
[Record
of
In
now
increased to eighty-five
mem-
The church remained without a pastor until P"ebruary 6th, 181 2, when the Rev. William R. Weeks was
installed.
[Dobie, 200.]
first
It
was about
forts
were
In June,
made for the erection of a church building. 181 2, Abraham Brinkerhoff, Jr., conveyed
[Record
dation
of
of
building was
immediately commenced.
on
this frontier
the
fall
of
81 6.
Its
total
cost
sold on the
of
19th of December,
81 6,
supervision
Benjamin
Mooers,
Piatt, a
committee ap-
On
PLATTSBURGII
VILLAGE,
73
in July,
University of
At
the
and none
in
It
n
of Essex,
of
churches
Northern
New
York, and
by
fire,
on the morning
of the
in
October, 181
7,
and the
i
W. Whelpley
on the
ith
day
of
in July, 1822,
and
re-in-
on the
He continued
his place being
May, 1835,
The Rev.
H. B.
and remained three years. He was succeeded by the Rev. L. Reed, who was installed in February, 1840, 2Ci\d.deposed\\\ November, 1843.
Newton was
On
1
and remained
Other religious societies had however, been organized within this territory. The First Presbyterian Church of Champlain was organized on the 8th of September. 1804 (Record of Deeds, Liber C, p. 27); t'l-i' of Cliazy, on the 22d March, 1805 (Liber C. 81); and that of Mooers on the ist of August, 1807 (Liber C. 257). The first Baptist Society of I'lattsburgh, was
organized on the 23d day of October, 181
1.
74
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
ill
B. Chamberlin,
who remained
until
On
Rev. John B.
January, 1863.
Young was
in
He was
installed
November
15, 1864.
Dur-
ing a portion of the year 1863 and 1864, the pulpit was
temporarily
the
In
autumn
of a portion
of the
Church
in-
stalled as pastor.
In the
summer The
of
fire
in
August, 1867.
rebuild,
made
to
laid with
The
and
its
furniture, including
The
in
chapel rooms
in the
October, 1869,
Academy.
The
building
is
The
first
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
75
who was
came
to his
He was drowned
river,
on
his return
home
at Clifton Park.
miscellany, 35.]
In 1779, a circuit
Circuit,"
was formed,
Rev. Alexander
McLane
as "itinerant."
It
included the
year the Rev.
of the lake.
The next
Hedding was
this circuit.
He
remained on the
is
time,
first
sermon
in a cabin
Cumberland Head.
[lb., 43-]
"
travelling
300
the next
by
others.
In 181
this
district
Heman
\'cr-
was
in
this
year that
Bishop Ashbury
preached
miscellany, 59.]
76
PLATTSBURGH
in the
VILLAGE.
town
of Peru, of
which Ed-
mund
Clark, John
Morehouse, Nathan
Ferris,
Solomon
D., 490.]
Methodist society
was organized
Scott,
in
Alexander
Fisk,
Solomon
trustees.
1
[lb.,
Liber.
7,
But
it
was not
until
8 16 or 181
made
form a society
in this
About
this time,
Shelden Durkee,
Ann
Durkee^
November
At
19,
819,
leader.
this
members
his wife,
David Brock,
Ann
I.
Stephen D. Brown.]
ized in
when
the Rev.
He remained two
who
Bartholomew Creagh,
in 1831.
Until 1831,
of
removed
to the
in
January, 1846,
and was
PLATTSBURGII
VILLAGE.
77
Lyman Prindle, 1838-40; Hiram Meeker, 1840-42; Andrew Witherspoon, 1842-4 and
1858-60;
1850-
R- H. Robin52; John E. Bowen, 1852-4 and 1S64-5 son, 1854-6; Halsey W. Ransom, 1856-8; Joseph K.
Cheeseman,
1862-4;
1860-62
and
1868-9;
Elisha
E)avid
S.
Watson,
P.
Hurl-
burd, 1867
S. R. Bailey,
1870 and
'71.
W.
Merrill suc-
after
'73,
being here
B.
M.
Mead,
1874 and
1876.
'75
and A.
incumbent, in
Episcopal.
informally or-
Church
December, 1826,
without a
who remained
this time the
a short time.
after
and during
members
of the
same
and
78
St.
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
John
B. L.
Skinner, Samuel
Beaumont, William F.
Samuel Emery, George Marsh, John Palmer and John Lyndeas vestrymen. [Record of
Haile, William F. Halsey,
Deeds, Liber
In
2,
227.]
May,
called to the
rectorship.
Academy
Coit,
or
Court House.
spring of
Howland
mained
in
November, 1845, when the Rev. Thomas Mallaby accepted the rectorship. He remained here until December,
1849, and in
Joseph Ransom,
until
who continued
in
the
first
day
of January, 1852.
which he remained
death, on
For
more than
twent3'-six years
he watched
who had
that year, was called to the rectorate on the 27th of October, 1866.
He
who
The
pulpit
was
Vermont,
until the
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
79
Roman
Catholic
CJmrch.
This
in
Churcli
was
first
charge
but prior
first
Mass
is
in
November, 1828.
worship
and
met
for public
red store,"
ted up as a chapel.
by the
Rev. Father
only,
months
Rogers,
who was here in the winter of came Father Raf terry, who was here
parish.
when
He was
who
John Palmer a
streets,
lot
on the corner
of
Kelley.
On
the
held at
May, 836, a meeting of the congregation was the regular place of public worship, at which time
st of
the church
" First
of
the
Plattsburgh,"
and Patrick Foy, William Eagan, Richard Cullen, Michael Kearney, James Trowlan, John Hogan, Barney McWil-
8o
liams, Michael
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
elected
as trustees.
On
Mc Murray and
of
Kelley con-
purchased
Judge Palmer,
after
of St. John's
com-
in
charge of the
fall
He
of the
among
Father
Drummond was
who remained
succeed-
here until
of
1854.
The church
much
own
in-
Under
Church
creased rapidly.
The
records
of bapto
have
been
1,013.
Rev. Father
of
who remained
fall
1856,
when
He was
of
On
name
Church was
re-in-
John the Baptist's Church of Plattsburgh," with the Right Rev. John J. Conroy, Bishop of the Diocese of Albany, the Very Reverend Edgar P. Wadof " St.
of the
J.
PLATTSBURGII
VILLAGE.
8
trus-
The laymen
first
fronting on
Margaret, Broad
and Oak
streets,
were conveyed to
to the
new
cor-
Upon
commenced
nies by the
the erection of a
new church
first
building, the
Bishop
of
Albany, on the
day
of July,
1868.
1875, by
Bishop
Wadhams
the
Diocese of
of the Dioin the
Ogdensburgh,
cese of
assisted
by Bishop Grosbriand
Vermont, Bishop
Wadhams
preaching
morning and Bishop Grosbriand in the evening. The slating of the roof was put on in the fall
of 1871.
The
84
building
;
is
cruciform
the transept,
spire will
feet
height inside, 90
be 250 feet
in height, built of
a stone cross.
of
Father Maloney, to
shall, in a
great
Northern
New
York.
until
this
In 1853 the
time
Church, were
P. Ber-
82
the erection of
PLATTSBURGH
VILLAGE.
of
De-
Damien LaForcc, Lewis Chaurain and Lewis St. Michell as trustees. On Sunday, November 19th, 1865, the church
was dedicated by Bishop Conroy,
priests.
assisted
by seventeen
E.,
having
summer
who,
of 1870,
when he was
transferred to Buffalo,
He
galle,
by Father
On
Church was
Damien LaForce
as
the lay
new corporation.
edifice.
St Peter's church
the west and
to the "
a large and
it is
imposing
To
ad-
joining
the Mission
House belonging
Oblate
work
and the
chil-
PLATTSBURGII
parish and his assistants reside.
of St. Peter's church,
is
VILLAGE.
83
the opposite side
Upon
the Convent
D'Youville beloncr.
"
Tlie Sister1871.
hood of Grey Nuns" was incorporated April members of the Society devote themselves
tion of the young, visiting
6,
The
of
to the educa-
work.
One
is
ployment.
Jewish Sy7iagogtic.
1
On
of
the
first
day
of
September,
"Jewish Congregation
with
;
William
A. Pey-
Cane
ser,
as President
;
Secretary
Regular
who came
here in September,
in
September, 1864.
succeeded by Rabbi
S.
Bernheim,
in
year,
L. Myer, the
On
trustees
church building on
for public worship.
Oak
and
fitted
it
up
as a place
^
'JO