708 [Assembly 



CHAPTER X. 



TO THE WAR OF 1812. 



A strong current of emigration from New-England rapidlj' dif- 

 fused a hardy and valuable population along the western shore 

 of Lake Champlain, and gradually penetrated the interior. Ticon- 

 deroga and Crown Point were settled by American emigrants at 

 the close of the revolution. George and Alexander Treuibla 

 were among the earliest and most prominent of those settlers. 

 Two lots upon Whallon's bay were occupied the same }ear by 

 Amos and David Stafford. 



The name of Charlotte county was in 1784 changed to Wash- 

 ington, and the eventual arrangement of the Vermont controversy 

 limited its territory in the Champlain valley to the western side 

 of the lake. 



On the division of Washington county in 1788, a new county 

 was organised, embracing the territory which now constitutes tj^e 

 counties of Essex, Clinton, and the eastern section of Franklin. 



The new county was called Clinton, and was divided into the 

 four towns, Champlain, Plattsburgh, Crown Point and Wills- 

 boro, which were incorporated at yie same time with the organi- 

 zation of the county. 



The town of Crown Point, in its original limits, comprised the 

 present town of that name, Ticonderoga, Moriah, Westport, Eliz- 

 abethtown, Schroon, Minerva, Newcomb, North Hudson aiid a 

 part of Keene. Willsboro', embraced the residue of the present 

 county of Essex, and three towns now included in Clinton. Each 

 of the towns of Crown Point and Willsboro, at the period of its 

 organization, spread over a territory of about nine hundred square 

 miles. 



At the first towm meetirg of Willsboro', Melchior Hoffnagle was 

 elected supervisor, and Daniel Sheldon town clerk. Ti e first 

 town meeting of Crown Point was held in December, 1788. At 

 this epoch, the ordinary civil functions of incorporated towns were 

 little regarded or enforced. A plan was adopted by which the 



