When Capt. Silas Burbank was born in 1738, in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Caleb Burbank, was 28 and his mother, Margaret Wheeler, was 28. He married Hannah Baird on 4 February 1763, in Scarborough, Cumberland, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 10 daughters. He registered for military service in 1775. He died on 14 September 1814, in Parsonsfield, York, Maine, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Parsonsfield, York, Maine, United States.