The Sons and Daughters of Plattsburgh and Saranac, New York

Only 18 miles south of the U.S. border with Canada is the city of Plattsburgh, Clinton County, New York once a major hub in the fur trade with Montreal. This city nestled along the shores of Lake Champlain was first settled in 1785. The Tracy family's ancestry is steeped in the history of this area of upstate New York. For it was here that Daniel and Anna Tracy raised their eleven children in the city and the small farming community of Saranac. Daniel and his sons would farm the lands in Livingston Gore which was situated in the portion of Saranac known as Burnt Hill. To give the reader a description of this land, the Plattsburgh Republican Newspaper of Saturday, 28 January 1837 stated: "Livingston Gore of Plattsburgh and Saranac, Lot Number 24 has] lands that are wild, covered with valuable timber, well-watered and abounding in improved water privileges. They generally possess a good soil for cultivation and some very valuable pine timber lands. Farms in various states of cultivation from the clearing of 10 acres to the long and well improved farm of 200 will be found in our lists. In fact the variety of soil, timber and stage of cultivation in the large quarters of these lands here offered, is such as is well calculated to suit the taste, wants and means of all descriptions of purchasers." This then is a compilation of the individual histories and stories of the Tracy children of Plattsburgh and Saranac, New York.