Biography of
Brown Surname of Pawlet, VT

Pawlet (VT) One Hundred Years
Hiel Hollister 
1867
J. Munsell, Albany 

BROWN, Capt. MILTON, from Attleboro, Mass., 1815, m. Eunice, da. of John Guild, and settled near the cotton factory, of which he was agent some 30 years. He was in the legislature three years and a director of the bank of Manchester 25 years and for several years its president. He was deacon of the Congregational church from 1844 until he left for Potsdam, N.Y., in 1853.

BROWN, ELIJAH, from Stamford, Conn., 1783, settled on the late homestead of his son Gerry Brown.  He was an industrious and useful citizen.  He died in 1835, aged 77; his first wife, Phebe, who was the mother of his children, died in 1817, aged 57; his second wife, Esther, da. of Elijah Stevens, died in 1832, aged 55.  He raised a family of seven children: Seth, who married _____Shepherd, removed to Clyde, N.Y.; Russell, Seely, David, who died in 1830, aged 33; Polly, died in 1836, aged 42; Amanda. married Gideon A. Loomis, and died in 1835, aged 42, and Gerry, noticed below.

BROWN, GERRY, m. Laura, da. of Jonathan Bidwell and succeeded to the homestead. He died in 1864, aged 63.  They raised three children: Selden S., who married Densia, da. of Washington G. Wait and succeeded to the homestead; Celestia, who married Dewitt C. Wait, and died in 1858, aged 22, and Castera.

BROWN, RUSSELL, m. Betsey, da. of Jared Wilcox, who died in 1821, aged 33, leaving three children:  Marshal, Maria and Jane. Next he married Laura Loveland, and died in 1825, aged 39.  Maria m. Samuel G. Guilford, of Middle Granville; Jane m. Sidney Wright, now of Cambridge, N.Y. 

BROWN, SEELY, 2d, m. Lydia, da. of Jared Wilcox, and died in 1836, aged 47; his wife in 1817, aged 27.  Their only daughter, Lydia, m. Horace Crofoot, and died 1841, aged 25.

BROWN, SEELY, from Stamford, Conn., 1780; m. Jemima, da. of Capt. Benoni Smith, and settled just north of the old Baptist church.  He was an enterprising and liberal citizen, and gave to the West Pawlet meeting house company the site for the church, parsonage and cemetery.  He built, at the Falls near by, a saw mill and clover mill.  He died in 1809, aged 50; his widow, who married Capt. Ephraim Robinson, died in 1834, aged 66. None of the family remain in town.