Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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l846, FEB. 76 MEXICAN WAR. FEBRUARY. Feb. 4 - Thomas M. Lewis, administrator of R. T. Lewis. Bond $2,000. Feb. 10 - G. W. Grayson, administrator of Isaac Moody. Bond, $2,000. Feb. 17 - A private letter of this date, from Platte City, says: "Hemp is worth $2.50 and $2.75 per 112 pounds. It is dark and inferior, owing to the dry fall, succeeded by a warm and wet winter. Rain has colored and injured the lint". Weather Feb. 27 - Elm Grove M. E. Church buys ground in the N. W. 1/4 of Sec. 29, T. 52, R. 34. MARCH March 3 - Alex P. Reed buys land in Sec. 31, T. 54, R. 34, at $4.50 per acre. Camden Point Christian Church buys a building site in the N. W. 1/4 of Sec. 32, T. 54, R. 34. The Female Academy Mr. Logue March 12 - Clinton Cockrill buys of F. B. Martin 480 acres of land, including the site of Tracy, for $5.25 per acre. March 14 - Lewis J. Wood busy the N. E. 1/4 of Sec. 19, T. 51, R. 33, at $8.10 per acre. Allen McLane is commissioned register of the land office at Plattsburg. THE MEXICAN WAR March 28 - Gen. Zachary Taylor, provoked by the invasions of the Mexicans, takes possession of Matamoros; and thereupon Mexico declares war against the United States. Congress appropriated ten millions to prosecute the war, and a call is made for 50,000 volunteers. WILLIAM BELL Dies east of Camden Point. His widow is Sultana C. Bell, and his children: 1. James Bell 2. David Bell 3. William W. Bell 4. John Bell, died leaving Eugene Bell his only child 5. Elizabeth Bell 6. Mrs. Jerome Arnold 7. Mrs. William Royston March 30 - Willard P. Hall is nominated for Congress by the Democratic Convention at Gallatin. The State has been dis-