This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lewis, Keeler Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.fulton/2507/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I have a copy of a legal instrument dated 4/28/1853, made and filed in Arcadia, Wyandotte Cnty, NY (on the Erie Canal) for 160 acres in Barry Cnty, MI, payable for "four hundred dollars current money of the State of New York". It would seem that land sellers perhaps were soliciting Erie Canal boat riders headed west. Such purchase was made by Lemuel Lewis, born 2/15/1801, md to Agnes (Keeler). Anyone have any info on such Lemuel Lewis or such land solicitations?