Happy New Year!! In my perusing of the internet this monring I came across Land records listed under the name of Seaman in Wisconsin for a Sylvanus Seaman, 1849. The site is: http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/asp/patinfo.asp?AccessionNumber=WI1310__.061 More specifically, the following site will take you to the home page of the Bureau of Land Management - Eastern States, General Land Office where you can search the Land Patents for most of the states east of the Mississippi for land grants in the early 1800's: http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ I see many familiar names on the Ohio list and also on the Wisconsin list. Carolyn Mussina Seaman Kinderhook, NY <gregseaman@berk.com>