Dear Herm and the Clermont/Brown County List: You've got me goin now. I have great curiosity about the farm where my family lived in the early 1800's in Brown County. However, as I live in Colorado and don't get to Ohio very often I haven't made my way over to Brown County to look at the area where my family lived in the early 1800's. I am a great believer in trying to visit the properties where they farmed but it has taken years to visit even some of them. In the meantime I pour over my atlas of Brown County and wonder what it was like to live on and farm that land. Maybe you can help me if I tell you where this family lived. Richard Hewitt moved to Brown County in 1800 and bought 100 acres. He improved the land and later his son Eli Hewitt added to it until he had 200 acres all on Straight Creek straddling Pleasant and Franklin Townships on Crawford's Survey #664. I would very much like to know more about the land, what the area was like, what the farm looked like, etc. I have the agricultural census for 1850 when Eli was living there. It looks like most of his crop was in corn (800 bushels) and the rest in wheat(100 bushels) and a lot of livestock. The farm was appraised at about $5,000 so it must have been a fairly productive enterprise. I have heard that Richard Hewitt was a miller and a distiller as well. If you know anything about this farm or this particular area of Brown County and can add anything to what little I know about the area I would be most grateful. You are probably one of the best sources of information on this area and I would welcome anything you can add to my research on this family and what it was like farming at this time. The names associated with the Hewitts are: Masterson/ Williamson/Prickett/Curtis/Parker/Hall/Calvin/Buckner/ Woods/Ewing and King. Marilyn Schmidt miwi2@hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.