Dear Jocelyn The passage that mentions Edward Cory is not long, so I will type it out in full for you. "The first <pastoralist>, James Taylor, took up a run, TRY Station, between Warrell Creek and Taylors Arm in 1841. The coincidence of the name and the location suggest that Taylors Arm owed its name to him. In 1844 Charles Ducat, son of a Macleay pastoralist held TRY station. By the next year it was in the hands of Edward Gostwyck Cory, a Hunter River land owner and early New England pastoralist. Cory still held it in 1846 and James Taylor, who must have fallen upon difficult times, was Cory's overseer. TRY station was abandoned by 1847. R. G. Massie commented that it had been 'deserted from the general want of fresh water, and the bad nature of the country.' " [Norma Townsend, Valley of the Crooked River, page 31] Peter Peterson Newcastle At 06:19 PM 21/05/01 +1000, you wrote: >Dear Group, > >Whilst trawling the Inter-net I came across a site with an index to The >Valley of the Crooked River Settlement of the Nambucca . Apparently, >Edward Gostwyck Cory is mentioned on page 31. I would be very grateful if >someone could look this up for me.