Hello Fred (and group), I have just ordered a book by Willard Espy from Amazon. It's called something like "Roads to my Grandfather's Village". My great grandmother was in Oysterville in 1860 as a 1 year old. The census says she was born in Washington Territory, but not whether it was in Oysterville itself. Her parents were both from Connecticut and that is where she always said she was from, so they must have returned to the east coast. The names I am interested in are Hoyt (father's name) and Briscoe (suspected maiden name of mother). I think I A Clark, one of the founders also married a Briscoe - hope so anyway. Is the book you have the same one as the above? Is it indexed? I can wait for it to arrive, but must admit I'm getting impatient already. I've found a couple of websites re Oysterville, and it looks like a place I'll have to visit one day. I saw a picture of a "Crellin" house built by a John Crellin. There are a bunch of Crellins on my couple of 1860 census pages, including 2 adult Johns. Hope this has unconfused things a bit. Rosemary in Sydney, Australia