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BOUND VOLUMES, April 10, 2014 200 YEARS AGO Dispatch from Plattsburgh – A Spy Detected: At length, by redoubled vigilance, in spite of the defects of our own laws, the corruption of some of our citizens, and the arts and cunning of the enemy, one Spy, of the hundreds who roam at large over this frontier, has been detected, convicted, and sentenced to Death. He came from the enemy as a deserter, in the uniform of a British corps, had…

BOUND VOLUMES, April 24, 2014 200 YEARS AGO The Armistice – From all information we have obtained on this subject, the following are the particulars, we believe, so far as they have progressed in this important affair. As we understand, a proposition has been received from Sir George Prevost, governor of Lower Canada, by our government, for a suspension of hostilities between the forces of the United States and those of Great Britain under his command in the two Canadas,…

BOUND VOLUMES, May 1, 2014 200 YEARS AGO Fire! Last Thursday, about one o’clock p.m. our citizens were again alarmed by the cry of fire, which proved to be in the shop occupied by Messrs. Benjamin & Barnard, cabinet-makers. The shop, together with tools, and a quantity of stuff were consumed; but a number of articles of furniture, of considerable value, were preserved, and by the usual activity of the citizens the further progress of the flames, which threatened destruction…

BOUND VOLUMES, May 8, 2014 200 YEARS AGO Married – on Tuesday evening last, by the Rev. John Smith, Samuel Starkweather, Esq., Attorney at Law, to Miss Marcia Averill, daughter of James Averill, Jun. Esq., all of this village. Village Law – Resolved, That no person shall remove any of the fire hooks, ropes or ladders belonging to the Trustees of this village, from the place where they are deposited, without the consent of the President of the village, under…

BOUND VOLUMES, May 15, 2014 200 YEARS AGO Steam boat traveling has increased beyond all calculation on the Hudson since its introduction by Fulton and Livingston. There are now plying on the north river no less than five boats, four of which perform a passage from New York to Albany, and the other to Poughkeepsie and back again once in each week, several of which have carried upwards of two hundred passengers at a trip. Of the Armistice, nothing farther…

BOUND VOLUMES, May 22, 2014 175 YEARS AGO The action brought by Mr. Fenimore Cooper against Andrew M. Barber, Editor of the Otsego Republican was decided on Wednesday last at Fonda, Montgomery County, by a verdict of $400 damages in favor of the plaintiff. The complaint was for a libel copied, with some editorial remarks, from the Chenango Telegraph, in connection with a controversy for the possession of the Three-Mile Point, on the west shore of Otsego Lake. There was…

BOUND VOLUMES, July 31, 2014 200 YEARS AGO James Graham was executed at Delhi, Delaware County, on Friday last, pursuant to the sentence of the law, for the murder of Hugh Cameron and Alexander McGillivray in July 1813. He ascended the scaffold with a firm and bold step, and before being turned off, declared, and called God to witness, that he was innocent of the crime for which he was to suffer; and that if ever a murder was committed…