Biography of Benjamin Alexander of Pawlet, VT Pawlet (VT) One Hundred Years Hiel Hollister  1867 J. Munsell, Albany   ALEXANDER, BENJAMIN, from England, 1837, m. Mary Thorn, who died in 1844, leaving four children; Elizabeth, Mary Ann, Susan and John. Mary Ann married Marshall Brown, and died in 1862.  Elizabeth married Marshall Brown; John married Ellen Howe. Next he married Sylvia, daughter of Isaac Harlow, of Whitehall, N. Y., who has three children, Henry and Henrietta (twins), and Harriet, who married Andrew Dunton.