Silas Adams (1758 - 1854)

Born 30 Apr 1758 in Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut

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Died 1854 at about age 95 in Milton, Saratoga, New York

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"With household effects loaded on a sled drawn by a yoke of steers, he with his wife, Lydia, and baby, Annis, started in the winter of 1784 for Saratoga County, NY. They reached Milton Hill in February. He built a log cabin and cleared land. That country being sparsley settled at that time. Their second child, Laura, was born.

The family endured great privation and hardships during the early part of their abode there, but those were lightened as the country became more settled, and they prospered increasingly as time went on."

In 1798 he built a large frame house at Milton Hill which he occupied as a homestead until his death."

He was the Town of Milton supervisor 1805-1808

The earliest settlements in Milton were made at Milton Hill and a short distance north of that point. Just before the Revolution David Wood and his sons, Stephen, Benjamin, Elijah, Nathan and Enoch, purchased 600 acres at Milton Hill and moved into the town. Justus Jennings, a Revolutionary soldier, settled near Hop City about 1783. About the same time Sanborn Ford located at Spier’s Corners. Abel Whalen built a home near him about the same time. Benajah Douglas, grandfather of Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, built a log house in 1787 near the old public spring at Baliston Spa, for the accommodation of visitors. This spring was discovered in 1769 while men were at work surveying the Kayaderosseras patent. Several other springs were subsequently discovered near by in the same valley. In 1817 four springs, within twenty feet of one another, were disàovered in the bed of the stream (Gordon creek). Soon afterward their water became fresh.

Source

The American Genealogist pg23

The records of the town clerk up to 1798 have been lost.

A genealogical and historical record of the Vorce family in America: with notes on some allied families, (by Charles Marvin Vorce, 1901) references Silas Adams and his family.

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