This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Preston Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RRB.2ACE/5882 Message Board Post: I'm looking for any information about Nathan Preston, husband of Hannah Garnett Preston, who moved to what is now the Olean area in October 1854. A recently discovered letter, written by Nathan's granddaughter, states: "they left Maine and came to New York and settled on a farm there in the southwestern part of the state - the city of Olean & vicinity is situated where it was located. Our grandparents lived there on a wooded homestead - then new country - until he broke his leg - and thru the ignorance of a Dr., died under an opiate when it was set in place. Grandmother was left with 12 children….” We know that the family was in Potter County, PA at the time of the 1860 census. Where could I find information about Nathan's burial place and/or date of death? Was there an 1855 state census that might include the family? Are there land records that might show land they owned?