
Unless Noted Otherwise, Transcribed by Nancy Piper
The Adams Centinel (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
February 8, 1803
At Windsor, Vermont, the cold was so intense on the 18th Dec. that the Thermometer was 14 minus: a degrees beyond what was ever known in that place since its settlement.
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
January 29 1823
New Year's Gift
On the 5th inst, the wife of Mr. Daniel Stoddard, of Hartford, Vt. Presented her husband with Three fine children, one son and two daughters, weighing all together, 25 lbs. Mr. Stoddard is about sixty years of age, has had tow wives, and been the father of twenty children, nineteen of which are still living, and six of which have been born within the last three years. This 'beats the Dutch".