This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VJIBAEB/28308 Message Board Post: Looking for Reuben Smith's parents or siblings. Do you have a Smith family who lived in Brookfield MA in 1755? Reuben was in Gilford and Brattlesboro, Windham, VT during the Revolutionary War when he was a soldier. He was among the Vermont Sufferers who received land in Chenango Co NY in 1785 by the U.S.Gov. in exchange for the land taken away in Vermont. He and his family lived in NY until 1833 when they pioneered in MI. Reuben died 1840 Saint Clair Co, MI.