BENJAMIN MOOERS HOUSE

Cannonball in wall
	Hole where Cannonball came through house

                  Mooers House - "In this house lived Benjamin Mooers, a Lieutenant in the war of the American Revolution and Major General of Volunteers

            in the War of 1812-1814."  During the Battle of Plattsburgh this was General Macomb's headquarters.  A British cannonball came through the

            open door and lodged in the south wall, where it remains to this day.  The house was built around 1803 and General Benjamin Mooers bought

           it in 1814.  It was a frame house facing Bridge Street and before he moved here in 1821, Mooers added this Pike Street wing and bricked it over.

           (106 Bridge St. Plaque on side of house)

                                                                                                   
   
            Major General Benjamin Mooers was born April 1, 1758, at Haverhill Mass. and died February 28 1838.  He served as lieutenant and adjutant in

            the Revolutionary War. He saw service at Ticonderoga, and was a lieutenant and adjutant in the Col. Moses Hazen's Canadian regiment. 

            Removing to Plattsburgh after the war, he became a prominent citizen of Clinton County, which he served as sheriff & treasurer. He commanded

            the militia at the Battle of Plattsburg, September 11, 1814. He was the first settler in this county, and for thirty years county treasurer. He repeatedly

            represented this section of country in the Assembly and Senate of the State, and discharged the important duties which devolved upon him as

            a citizen, as a soldier, and a Christian, with fidelity to his country and integrity to his God.  He also filled the following posts: assemblyman, State

            senator, member of council of appointment and presidential elector.  In the militia he rose through long service to the dignity of major general;

            and the responsibilities of this office were his when Prevost invaded the State.