Wyoming County Mirror Warsaw, Wyoming Co., NY March 16-1852 Written for the 'Mirror.' The Early Settlers. Number XVIII. by Hugh T. BROOKS. Jabez WARREN and Mr. SILLECK were mentioned in my last as the associates of Mr. CHAMBERLAIN in the settlement of Middlebury. Mr. TURNER, in The History of the Holland Purchase, names the following individuals as settlers in Middlebury during the year 1802--(it shall be 1803--)Jabez WARREN, Sterling STEARNS, Joseph SILLECK, Frederick GILBERT, Israel M. DEWEY and Reuben CHAMBERLAIN. Jabez WARREN is represented as being a man of unusual enterprise and intelligence. He was employed by the Holland Company to open a road from the Transit Line to Lake Erie, in 1804. He had also been employed in constructing other roads.--While at the Land Office in Batavia one day, Mr. ELLICOTT remarked to him--"Mr. WARREN, a man of your abilities is entitled to more than a common chance--I will give you an agency." Accordingly Mr. WARREN removed in 1804 to Aurora, Erie County, where he was agent for a township. Mr. WARREN was quite successful in his new home, and died in 1810, rich and respected, at the age of 47 years. Gen. Wm. WARREN, of Aurora, is his son. His improvements at "Wrights Corners" were a log house and a small clearing, on which he raised crops in 1803. His neighbor and associate, Joseph SILLE, was a man of medium size, active and industrious. He made the largest improvement in that part of the country, about 100 acres, and sold out after a few years to David PALMER, father of Stephen PALMER, who succeeded to the property, and sold to Mr. HENDERSON, whose widow now occupies the farm. Mr. SILLECK realized about $3000 by this sale. He removed to Avon, where he _ purchase and "built himself," as the saying is "out of house and home." Becoming involved by his outlays in making improvements on his Avon purchase, he lost his property, and went to reside with his children at the West. Frederick GILBERT was an active, energetic man, of easy and gentlemanly address, but most unfortunate in his domestic relations. His wife seems to have had a gift for living alone; at any rate she did not choose to make herself agreeable to other people. Her husband had the full benefit of all her peculiarities; and it was finally agreed that they would live apart, as the surest way to promote "domestic tranquility." Mr. GILBERT was absent for several years, and his wife remained in this part of the country, sometimes residing with her children and sometimes in families about the neighborhood. Two of his old neighbors, Maj. WILSON and Esqr. BELKNAP, on their way to Canandaigua, stopped at Gansons, in Leroy, to spend the night, where they found Mrs. GILBERT. Maj. WILSON seeing an Irishman in the bar-room asked him why he did not get married, and suggested the "widow GILBERT," as a suitable "help-meet." "Very well," says the Irishman, I am ready if she is." The lady assented, and Esqr. BELKNAP pronounced the irrevocable sentence--"husband and wife." BELKNAP, after waiting as long as delicacy required, ventured to suggest that he was ready to receive his fee. "Come, come," says the Irishman, "take something to drink." BELKNAP and the company readily joined in this, and matters went on briskly for a while. BELKNAP again turned his attention the finance--"take another drink," says the Irishman, and again the company joined them in a social glass. This was repeated several times, till the happy "groom" became oblivious to all earthly cares and composed himself to slump on the bar-room floor!--The late "widow GILBERT" made her broom play in a most amiable manner the next morning, and she found her spouse stretched at full-length among the rubish of the bar-room.--Whether her second trail of married life was more auspicious than the first, tradition has not informed us; but the beginning, most assuredly, was not very full of promise. I will close, with this peep at social life, fully convinced that our staid ancestors had their failings. + Middlebury Academy. The Annual Examination at this Institution occurred on Thursday and Friday, the 4th and 5th inst., and was highly creditable to both instructors and pupils. All the classes did well, and several of them exceedingly well. There were everywhere exhibited these marks of thoroughness in the instruction which can alone secure the proper discipline to the mind. The great object of each teacher seems to have been to have the subject in hand mastered, and not simply the text book committed. We were especially pleased with the exhibitions in the Languages--Latin and French--also in Chemistry, English Grammar, Rhetoric, and Intellectual Philosophy. While the pupils generally gave highly commendable proofs of their diligence and success in study, some won our admiration. Upon the whole we were deeply impressed with the belief, that under the present Board of Instruction, few, if any, Academies in the land could hold out such substantial inducements to youth as resorts for intellectual and moral training. Of the Principal, we have no occasion to speak, by way of commendation. His rare qualifications as a teacher and presiding officer are widely known and appreciated. Miss MACLAY, during the comparatively brief connection with the Institution, has become deservedly and to a high degree popular.--Mr. CARPENTER, though recently introduced as a teacher, appears to be thoroughly qualified for his place. Wyoming, as a location, possesses advantages unrivalled. It is healthful, moral and quiet. And should the Trustees of the Academy succeed in the laudable undertaking of increasing their accommodations, we see no reason why it should not be thronged with students. + Married. In Warsaw, on the 25th ult., by J.W. HINES, Mr. Solomon MORRIS, and Miss Jane ENSIGN, all of Warsaw. In Gainesville, February 2d, by B.F. BRISTOL, Esqr. James SMITH, of Attica, and Miss Malinda COOK, of Warsaw. + Died. In Warsaw, on the 14th inst., Lucy MORRIS, wife of Rufus MORRIS, aged 52 years. In Warsaw, on the 9th inst., Ann V. BEEBE, wife of James U. BEEBE, and daughter of Elijah BASSETT, aged 21 years. In Fredonia, Chautauqua Co., on the 27th ult., Mrs. Emily LEACH, wife of Isaac LEACH, and sister of Mrs. F. NICHOLSON, of this place, aged 35 years. In Attica, on the 7th inst., at the residence of her mother, Mrs. Josephine PADDOCK, wife of Robert PADDOCK of Detroit, formerly of Middlebury in this county, and daughter of the late Col. Joseph WILDER, in the 34th year of her age. + submitted by Linda C. Schmidt and Kathy Then