Editing Hague, New York (section)

== History ==
In 1757, during the [[French and Indian War]],  [[Sabbath Day Point]] was used as an encampment and staging area for the French Army and nearly two thousand [[Odawa]] in an expedition to capture the British Fort William Henry at the southern end of Lake George.  While at the Sabbath Day Point camp, they conducted an ambush of a group of British soldiers and captured many.  Later at the Sabbath Day Point base camp, the Indians cannibalized some of the captured British prisoners.

Sabbath Day Point was used a landing place in 1758 for [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] armies en route to attack the [[Kingdom of France|French]] at Fort Carillion and again in 1759 when General Jeffery Amherst finally succeeded in capturing Fort Carillon.  It was then renamed Fort Ticonderoga.

During the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin twice encamped there traveling to and from Canada as an emissary of the Continental Congress in an unsuccessful attempt to have Canada join the Colonies in the revolution.  He was Postmaster General and in this capacity, he conducted temporary postal processing functions on each of his stays at Sabbath Day Point.

The town was first settled around 1796.
The Town of Hague was originally part of the [[Bolton, New York|Town of Bolton]] and was created in 1807 as the Town of Rochester.  In 1808 it changed its name to Hague.<ref name="smith">[http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywarren/countyhistory/smith/xxxi.htm History of Warren County, edited by H. P. Smith - Chapter XXXI: History of the Town of Hague]</ref>

In 1904 the waters of Hague bay were home of the [[Lake George Monster]].<ref name=csicop>{{cite web |title=The Lake George Monster Hoax |author=Nickell, Joe |work=Committee for Skeptical Inquiry |date=December 2007 |url=http://www.csicop.org/sb/2004-12/i-files.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080317112829/http://www.csicop.org/sb/2004-12/i-files.html |archive-date=March 17, 2008 }}</ref><ref name=holg>{{cite web |title=Lake George Monster |work=Hague on Lake George Chamber of Commerce |url=http://www.visithague.com/monster.htm }}</ref>  The "monster" was the creation of Harry Watrous, and was part of a practical joke.<ref name=csicop/><ref name=holg/>