Sylvester Young

     Sylvester Young was born on 27 August 1809 at Noyan, Missisquoi Co, Quebec.¹ He was the son of Jacob Young and Arlotta Covey. Sylvester Young was baptized on 22 September 1809 at Caldwell's Manor, (now Missisquoi Co), Quebec.¹ He married Wealthy Ann Backus, daughter of Guden Backus and Lucy (?), on 23 June 1833. Sylvester Young married Eliza Angier, daughter of Calvin Angier, in 1842; a History of Westport, no further info available. Sylvester Young died in 1895 at Westport, Essex Co, New York. He was buried at Windhams Cemetery, Westport, Essex Co, New York.
     According to a history of Westport (Essex Co, NY), Sylvester first came to Westport in 1840, where he "engaged in clearing wood from the land of William Guy Hunter on North Shore". Soon after his marriage to Eliza Angier, they went back to his hometown of Noyan, PQ for a year, then settled in Essex for 6 years, and finally settling back in Westport in 1849. Sylvester Young was known as a "Pathmaster", and was a prominent member of the Congregational Church at Wadhams. He appeared on the census of 1880 at Westport, Essex Co, New York; Sylvester Young, 70, Eliza, 63, Martha A., 30 and Charles Adolph, 16.²