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/VRB.2ACE/1820.1 Message Board Post: Before 1850 it is difficult. Only thing left is deeds & wills recorded at the county clerk's/surrogate's.alternative spelling? Isaac Levy had a tract in Schoharie Co,not far away. (French's Historical Gazetter of NY c 1860)