This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Greenslit, Smith Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VJIBAEB/28486.1.1 Message Board Post: This is what Helen Graves wrote to me in an email recently. See if anything matches what you know... both Helen and I are interested in the possible Greenslit connection.... there are many Greenslits in Readsboro and Bennington, VT.... Helen wrote: I just stumbled across a short bio on the Tri-Counties (Tioga Co., PA) website. Biography for H. E. Smith H. E. Smith was born Nov 4, 1811, in Sidney, Delaware Co., NY. His father was Samuel Smith, born in Bennington, VT. Samuel Smith served in the Rev War and witnessed the Battle of Bennington. He married Lucy Greenslit. They moved to Sidney, Delaware Co., NY, where Samuel Smith died. There's more on H. E. Smith coming to settle in Tioga Co. PA. I don't know what to make of this bio. Nothing more is said about his mother Lucy Greenslit. But what it said about his father being born in Bennington, serving in the Rev. there, perked me up. This could mean that Samuel Smith met and married Lucy Greenslit there, which could mean she could have been born there, raised there. From the wording, it sounds like AFTER their marriage, they moved to Sidney, Delaware Co., NY. The 1811 birth of their son H. E. Smith has to mean Lucy was at least born prior to 1791 -- and perhaps earlier since Samuel Smith served in the Am Rev. and Battle of Bennington. If he was 20 years old in 1776, Lucy could have been born about the same time (c. 1756) or she could have been much younger. IF Lucy was, say 35, in 1811 when she had their son H. E. Smith, that would place Lucy's birth c. 1776. She could be a DAUGHTER of James Greenslit of Bennington. I don't recall running into any Lucy Greenslit of Bennington. I wonder if it would be worth researching this Samuel Smith in Sidney, Delaware Co., NY, to see if more can be found out about his marriage to a Lucy Greenslit and what his wife's age was on the 1810 census. As mother of H. E. Smith born 1811, she would be alive in 1810.