Silas Halsey

Born October 6, 1743 (Old Style) / October 17, 1743 (New Style) in Southampton, he attended the public schools and studied medicine at Elizabethtown, New Jersey (later Elizabeth.)

He returned to Southampton and practiced medicine from 1764 to 1776; he then resided three years in Killingworth, Connecticut during the American Revolutionary War, when he again returned to Southampton.

He moved to Herkimer County in 1793 and settled in what is now the town of Lodi and continued the practice of medicine.

He was a member of the State constitutional convention in 1801, and was clerk of Seneca County from 1804 to 1813 and in 1815.

He was a member of the New York State Senate in 1808 and 1809, and engaged in farming.