Biography of Zebulon Gibbs of Pawlet, VT Pawlet (VT) One Hundred Years Hiel Hollister   1867 J. Munsell, Albany GIBBS, ZEBULON, from Connecticut; settled near West Pawlet. He raised a family of three sons, Clemons, Spencer and Ira. Clemons’s second wife is aunt to Col. Ellsworth, who was assassinated at Alexandria the first year of the war, and lives in Saratoga. Spencer kept tavern near Troy, N. Y., where he died recently. Ira m. Betsey, da. of James Roach, of Hebron; kept the hotel at West Pawlet several years, and now resides in the northeast part of the town. Mr. Gibbs died in 1855, aged 78; his wife in 1842, aged 76.