Peru Landing

Item

Title: Peru Landing
Description: Peru Landing, (Port Jackson). Early settlement fanned from the shores of Lake Champlain to the interior of the Adirondacks and Champlain Valley region.
8 April 1801
By the " Reverend Mr. Halsey, Minister of Plattsburgh" Lodema, daughter of John Ransom and his wife Rhoda Pratt, and John Craig a native of Scotland who had settled in Canada, were mar- ried. They made their home on a farm of 500 acres on the lake shore in Peru where John Craig built the first and only dock (Peru landing) between Essex and Cumberland Head. ( Page 43)
2 April 1804
At Peru Landing, died John Craig, Sr., a Scotchman who had first settled in Canada. In 1801, he had married Lodema Ransom, daughter of John of Cumberland Head. Their only child, John Craig, Jr., was then but a few months old. (Page 94).
Source: Three Centuries in Champlain Valley: A Collection of Historical Fact and Incidents" by Tuttle, Maria Jeanette Brookings ; Daughters of the American Revolution, Saranac Chapter (Plattsburgh, N.Y.) 1909 www.archive.org
"Peru Landing was not named until 1829. A map in the possession of Dr. Wm. Ladue (Sr.) of Plattsburgh locates Peru Landing just north of the mouth of the Big AuSable River, and just above a "Sandy Beach" now called AuSable Point. There is a jut of land along there which shows the remains of an old dock. This spot as near as can be ascertained is on the property long called "Straight Property." (Dr. Straight, a dentist of Keeseville was born there.) It is now owned by Stanley Dew, and he has camps called Orchards Camps." (1958). Source: The History of the First Baptist Church of Keeseville, N.Y. 1788-1968, Bibliography, Addendum to the Church Minutes Transcribed by Eleanor A. Spaulding, Church Historian. Peru Town Historian Office Archives
Contributor: Robin Michel Caudell
Creator: Robin Michel Caudell
Date: September 2022
Format: JPG
Identifier: A
Language: EN
Relation: Baptists
Subject: Origins
Original Format: Photograph

Item sets: The Mother Church

Media: Peru Landing