This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/oRB.2ACI/675.2 Message Board Post: Your connection could be OYSTERS ! They took them up to Northern markets from Chincoteague in schooners. Also Phila., New York etc. This delicacy was quite the money maker in those days for Chincoteaguers.