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My great, great uncle was a young schoolteacher in the late 1820's in Williamstown, Vt. According to a newspaper article that I have, one winter he walked across a big lake to save time and walked through a rough wilderness. In Gouverneur, NY he bought land and built a building for his tanning business. A year or two later he went back to Williamstown to marry one of his previous students, who was @ 18 yrs. old. He brought her back in the winter time over the same route and I can't imagine how thrilling and scary that must have been for her. On mapquest it says there is 229 miles between Gouverneur and Williamstown or a 4 hr and 36 mins. trip. I'd love to hear from anyone out there who has studied that time period and could tell me anything about the route my uncle took and what he would have to have gone through. Was it just a trail, what dangers was he facing? How long would it have taken him to walk across the frozen lake? By the way, they were married 70 years and died within months of each other.
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