This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith, Croasdale, Sterling, Blaker, Buckman, Thomas, Briggs Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DaB.2ACE/4110 Message Board Post: The PA>VA>OH trail may be the same one my SMITH family followed from Bucks. I have a Samuel SMITH b. c. 1796-1800 PA who ended up in Northwestern Ohio after 1850. Samuel Smith m. Amanda STERLING (b. 11 Jul 1823 PA), whose family were in Bucks County at the time of the Rev War. Her grandfather, Levi Sterling, was a Rev War veteran from Bucks, and I believe that Samuel Smith's father or grandfather may also have been in the Rev War. It has been suggested that both of these families, the Sterlings and Smiths, left Bucks following the Rev War because of their willingness to participate in that war. Beyond that, I have been unable to find information. Can anyone add to information about this period, its effect on families which contained Rev War vets, and about the SMITHs and STERLINGs and CROASDALEs in particular?