Pawlet (VT) One Hundred Years
Hiel Hollister
1867
J. Munsell, Albany
GREGORY, Maj. SYLVANUS, from Suffield, Conn., 1790, settled at the village in the hat making business.
He took a lively interest in public concerns, and about 1806 took a census of the inhabitants of the town, which exceeded three thousand, a larger number by seven hundred than were ever reported by the U. S. marshals.
He raised a family of eight children: Silas, Alfred, Simeon, Minerva, Clarissa, Polly, Sophia and Elmira.
Alfred became a physician and settled in Fort Ann, N.Y.; Simeon removed to the west; Minerva died single in 1865, aged 80; Clarissa also died single in 1849; Polly m. Allen Vail, of Middletown, and died in 1866, aged 74: Elmira m. David Savage, of Champlain, N.Y.
Maj. Gregory and his wife both died in 1848, each at the age of 82.
GREGORY, SILAS, is now the oldest inhabitant of the village. He m. Lucy, da. of Nathaniel Carver, who died in 1824, aged 32; next he m. Lydia, sister of the first, who died in 1857, aged 57, leaving two children, Lucy and Betsey; next he m. Betsey, da. of Simeon Edgerton, Jr.
He has long been known as an active, industrious citizen, and has attained the age of 77.
