Family:Silas Walbridge and Rhoda Gunn (1)

Surname also spelled Walbridge.

Source: William Gedney Wallbridge, Descendants of Henry Wallbridge Who Married Anna Amos, December 25, 1688, at Preston, Conn., Philadelphia, Press of Franklin, 1898.

"The Walbridge homestead at Walbridgeville .... built after the Revolution, about 1783." From "The Hoosac Valley," in Settlers of Bennington, VT, pg 224, by Samuel Robinson (G.P. Putnam Sons, NY).

Silas was in the battle of Bennington Aug. 16, 1777, and wrote a report thereof, which Jennings quotes from in his Memorials of a Century, p. 183, and should be in the possession of Ex-Gov. Hall, of Vt., or his family. He was also taken prisoner by the British while scouting near Fort Ticonderoga, an account of which is on pp. 306-525 of a manuscript volume in the Vt. Sec. of State's office, entitled Rev. Service, State of Vt. [T. R. = Town Records]

Silas was a farmer, and lived all his life on the farm near Bennington, from whence his son Silas moved west, and founded the Rochester, N. Y., branch of the family. A manuscript found among the Vermont papers at Albany, N. Y., called a pay roll for the year 1780, shows the names of privates Silas and Henry Walbridge. (Pp. 536-7, Vol I, Archives State of N. Y.)