Gold Selleck Silliman (1732–1790) was a Connecticut militia General during the American War for Independence.
Silliman was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, graduated from Yale University and practiced law and served as a crown attorney before the American Revolution.
As soon as he heard word of the British landing on the coast, he sent out expresses to alarm the nearby towns and to collect the militia.
Thomas Jones, a highly reputed loyalist, was captured in November 1779 by Continental Navy Captain David Hawley and brought back to Connecticut.
[1] His son Benjamin Silliman was born in a tavern, originally the home of Ebenezer Hawley in Trumbull, Connecticut, after Benjamin's mother, Mary Silliman, fled Fairfield ahead of a British and Loyalist raiding party.