I belong to the Ostfriesen Mailing list and we have had numerous discussions on the Scully leases since that is how many of our ancestors came to America. You can go directly to some of the Scully archives by going to http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/isearch2 . Just look at the message bodies. The home page of this group is at http://www.summitsoftware.com/Ostfriesen and on it you will learn a great deal about Ostfriesen history as well as directions for joining this friendly group. If you have questions please just ask and I'll do my best to answer you although I'm not the ultimate authority on the subject. I can remember seeing Scully farms when I was a child with all the buildings painted a sort of mustard yellow. Dottie