Biography of Giles Surname of Pawlet, VT Pawlet (VT) One Hundred Years Hiel Hollister 1867   J. Munsell, Albany GILES, EBENEZER, from Townsend, Mass., 1807, settled near West Pawlet.  At the breaking out of the war of the revolution he was among the first to volunteer for his country.  While in the service, near New York city, he was severely wounded and taken prisoner.  He was confined in the Sugar House, a specimen, on a small scale, of Andersonville.  He died in 1838, aged 78.  His children mostly moved to the west.  His youngest daughter, Lucy, who sent the above particulars, died in 1865, aged 49. GILES, BRAMAN F., son of Ephraim Giles, and grandson of the preceding, is the only representative of the family left in town.  He married Eunice Folger, and lives on the Reuben Smith place.  His oldest daughter, Mary, is a graduate of the state normal school of New Jersey.