Dear Herm, You found it. I'm guessing my atlas is also from 1876 which shows Mary/Polly Hewitt. She was Eli Hewitt's wife. I just gave another list member the closest address of where I thought the farm might be so that it can be photographed. Would you say this is correct--- On Day Hill Road about 1/4 mile north of where Camp Run Road crosses it? Is this still farmland today? I guess Richard Hewitt must have been one of the "Daniel Boone" types as he was there so early. One of his sons, Jacob, owned land in 1830 on Tibbs survey #1942 just to the northwest of #664--perhaps on Camp Run Road before he moved to Clermont County and bought a lot in Batavia. Thanks for the additional information from the aeriel survey. --------Herm's response-------------- > >Just by the low survey no of 664 means the surveyors liked the land. My wife's Kirk[patrick's lived the 2nd farm north 1860-70-76+ of Polly Hewitt. [GUESS] The neighborhood had become so German in the 1830's that the Kirkpatrick's kept a 2nd house in Georgetown,where their kids got English schooling. That section of Straight creek was settled 1st by Dan'l Boone types, but got Asiatic Cholera,and hog cholera about the time Illinois lands opened up. And the Arnheim area was repeopled by Germans,in large part. The village of Arnheim had the several German churches for all mid Brown Co. Only Ripley,on the Ohio,rivaled it for Germans. You can be sure there was enough roll for good surface drainage. Likely 10% near the creek was too steep to be tillable,but could be pasture,or wood lot. Comparing the 1876 Brown Co atlas with the page 34 aerial photograph in "Soil Survey of Brown Co,Oh" -a source of aerial photographs for any county - shows the Hewitt farm almost all in crops or pasture. _________________________________________________________________________ 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.