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Zephaniah Platt Land Grant Zephaniah Platt Land Grant dated February 7, 1789 and signed by Gov. George Clinton
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Plattsburgh Blockhouse Map of Plattsburgh and it vicinity made for Zephaniah Platt, founder of Plattsburgh. It is decorated with a blockhouse image inset, framed, and created using watercolor.
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1791 First Baptist Church of Keeseville Sign NYS Marker for the Log Cabin Home of Uriah and Betty Palmer. The Baptist Church of Christ in Peru, later renamed First Baptist Church of Keeseville, was constituted in a log house, the occupied by Uriah Palmer (1791) and now owned by Joshua Reynolds. Isaac Finch succeeded in inducing Rev. Solomon Brown of Granville, Washington County to remove to Peru. Its constituted member were: Edward Everett and wife, Kinner Newcomb, Stephen Reynolds, Lucretia Reynolds, Sarah Palmer, Noble Averill, Polly Averill, John Cochran, Isaac Finch, Abigail Finch, John Finch, Sarah Finch, Simeon Barber, Catherine Barber and Urial Palmer.
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Peru Landing 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
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Blockhouse, Bear Swamp Road Fort where early settlers hid from Indian attacks.
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Marjorie Lansing Porter, Essex County Republican Editor Helen Margarette "Marjorie" Lansing Porter (1891-1973), Essex County Historian, Clinton County Historian, City of Plattsburgh Historian, Essex County Republican Editor and writer, co-founder Adirondack History Center in Elizabethtown, Essex County, NY. She is the great-granddaughter of Wendell Lansing, Essex County Republican Founder & Publisher, Abolitionist, Underground Railroad Conductor in network with Samuel and Catherine Keese and Stephen Keese Smith of Peru. Wendell Lansing was a member of the First Baptist Church of Keeseville.