Ceramics and 18th century Advertising

 Advertisements are a great clue to the wares being imported and used in Charleston during the mid century:

 

JUST IMPORTED in the Lamb, Capt. Price, from Bristol,

...yellow ware in crates

SAMUEL CARNE

The South Carolina Gazette, Charleston, 3 to 7 May, 1754.

 
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CROFT & DART

Have just imported, in the Joseph, Capt. Seager, from Bristol and will sell cheap

...shallow and soup white stone mosaic plates and dishes - fruit baskets - green mellons and leaves - neat stone faces and horns for flowers - blue and white water juggs...

South Carolina Gazette, Charleston, 29 Aug 1763,3-2.

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Imported in the Friendship Captain Ball, from London and to be sold by

Hetherington and Hynock at their store upon the Bay-

”china and china images”

South Carolina Gazette, Charleston, 27 Aug 1763, 2-1.

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FIFTY Crates of YELLOW WARE to be sold cheap,

by the subscriber, at his store in Elliot Street

Dec. 1st, 1764              John Vaux

South Carolina Gazette, Charleston, 10 Dec 1764,Suppl. 2-3.

 

SAMUEL WISE

Has just imported in the Baltick Merchant, Capt. Clarkson,

from BRISTOL,

...delph, white stone, and blue and white stone chamberpots, white stone plates, dishes, bowls, and tureens, pine apple, collyflower and tortoise shell tea pots, coffee pots,

milk pots, sugar dishes, flower horns, and pickle leaves, flower pots, milk pans,

crates of earthenware, stone jugs.....

South Carolina Gazette and Country Journal, Charleston, 21 Jan 1766, 1-1.

 
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Imported in the Brigantine Polly, Thomas Dean, Master, from SALEM,

and to be sold on Col. Beale’s Wharf, GOOD old Barbados Rum and Sugar, New England Rum, Molasses, Iron Pots of sundry sorts, Wood Axes, half Bushels, Chairs,

Water Buckets, Sugar Boxes, Desks and Tables, Onions in Bunches, Potatoes,

Cyder, Salt Fish, Earthen and Tin Ware,

South Carolina Gazette and Country Journal, Charleston, 21 Jan 1766, 3-2.

  
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Just imported in the ship LIBERTY, ROBERT LIVINGSTON,

Master, from LEVERPOOL [sic]

ABOUT Three Thousand Bushels of fine Stove dried

Salt--Coals--Empty Bottles--Bottles Beer--A few Crates  of

Yellow Ware, black ware, and Porto-Bello Ware,

Cheshire and double Gloucester Cheese--Potatoes, &c.

The above goods will be sold remarkably low by the

Quantity or Package, by NOWELL & LORD

South Carolina Gazette and Country Journal, Charleston, 28 Jan 1766, 2-2.

 
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JAMES McCALL

Has just imported in the ship LLOYD, Capt. POCOCK,

 from BRISTOL:

A VERY VALUABLE and COMPLEAT CARGO OF GOODS:

...[textiles, foods, hardware, and]...large red hearth tiles, red unglazed China tea and coffee pots; brown bowls, compleat sets of pencil work;...

South Carolina Gazette and Country Journal ,Charleston, 18 Aug 1767, 3-1.

 
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TO BE SOLD...a CONSIGNMENT,

A LARGE QUANTITY of blue and white CHINA DISHES ANDPLATES, ENAMELED PLATES, blue and white ENAMELED, and burnt in Setts TEACHINA, blue and white and ENAMELED Pint and Half Pint BOWLS,

with sundry other CHINA WARE

Oats and Russell

South Carolina Gazette and Country Journal, Charleston, 25 Oct 1768, 3-1.

 
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WILLIAM GLEN, AND SON

Have imported...from London...AMONGST WHICH ARE

An assortment of GLASS WARE, CRATES OF STONE AND

CLOUDY WARE, STONE JUGS.....

South Carolina Gazette and Country Journal, Charleston, 17 Mar 1772, 3-2.

               

 

Bartlam porcelain at Christies

For those of you that missed it, a complete piece of Bartlam chinaware was auctioned off at Christies last year.  It was a beautiful teabowl with blue and white design.  Images can be seen here:
http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/an-american-soft-paste-porcelain-teabowl-5648335-details.aspx

The price realized was $146,000.  It was one of only two located anywhere in the world.  Hopefully there will be more pieces that surface now that we know what they look like!

Charleston Trade

(Part of Master's Thesis work on Charleston Ceramics)

            Ceramics imported into Charleston were heavily influenced by the fluctuations in other imported and exported goods.  While earthenwares and porcelains might have captured a handsome price on the retail market, they were not necessarily a primary import to Charleston in the 18th century.  The weight of ceramics was high when compared to the risk and cost of shipping, considering the level of breakage which might occur on any given voyage.  In addition to the loss of income from spoiled cargoes, owners had to pay high rates of insurance, raising the cost further.  In 1764, merchant Henry Laurens lost 10 casks of earthenware and another ten casks of "Yellow ware" due to breakage during shipping;[1] these were then sold for £4 to £5 - far below market value for the wares.  

            Shipments of ceramics were infrequently listed in ship’s manifests or customs records, and even then the details were minimal.  One cargo might include “18 crates of earthenware,” or “21 baskets of earthenware.”  In a sampling taken from January 1763 to December 1764, only 8 of the 120 entries contained any reference to ceramics and of these, only two revealed any significant detail, those being 8 dozen milk pans from the Fair Lady[2] and 6 chamber pots shipped on the Betsey.[3]  Yet, despite this lack of evidence for ceramics in import records, information about the ceramics market can be gleaned from the records, and data might be inferred from the details of trade for other commodities traveling between Charleston, Europe, and the West Indies. 

            Shipping lists for major imports and exports (potentially those items for which duties would be collected) exist for the port of Charleston for much of the eighteenth century.  Details of weight, unit and price can be found in naval lists and customs records.  In a landmark study of Charleston port statistics completed in 1984, Converse Clowse analyzed 50 years of these import and export records to the southern port, attempting to synthesize them into a comprehensible and useful set of data .[4]   Viewed as a whole, the numbers may seem inconclusive; but when broken down by commodity, we see a market driven by the tension between the need to sell exported goods and the desire to maintain a steady supply of British good to the colonies.   This supply and demand tug-of-war influenced Charleston style by affecting the choice of ports, the choice of ships and the rhythm of  shipping between the colonies, England, and the West Indies.

England’s Commercial Core

            Britain’s capitol city of London captured a large part of the Charleston export trade in the 1760s,  accepting an average of 20-30% of British rice shipments.[5]  This was due in part to the increasing commercial and banking network developing in London during the latter half of the eighteenth century.  As a political center of the American colonies before the Revolution, London attracted those interested in maintaining close ties to the English economy, including merchants, law makers, and scholars, all of whom stood to benefit from London’s growth.  Charleston’s links with London were even more direct, as hundreds of Charleston sons and daughters were sent across the Atlantic to obtain their education.  The letters of Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Henry Laurens describe effect that this had on the family relationships and often on the social financial status of the family.  The children kept their families and friends up to date with news and market information, and when they returned to Charleston, they brought the news of the au courant back to the Low Country, making Charleston more "British" than many of her northern neighbors.

            This economic development did not escape the scrutiny of England’s potters, who began to move their trade from Bristol to London after 1770.  Fashionable showrooms provided meeting places for the city’s upper class, and ensured a steady market for the enterprising potter/merchant.  A new system of canals and roads, encouraged by Wedgwood and other potters in Staffordshire, brought English ceramics to the doorsteps of England’s elite, while simultaneously improving the transportation of goods to the West Indies and American colonies.

            London's status as a commercial center was challenged by the western trade center of Bristol.  Identified by Sellars as one of the primary centers of trade with South Carolina before the Revolution, fully one third of Bristol’s ships sailing before 1765 came to Charleston either directly, or through southern Spanish ports of Teneriffe or Cadiz, West African trade centers, or fishing ports of the northeast colonies.[6]  In addition to the finished goods being shipped from England, ships from Bristol brought.....   Bristol was also strategically located to capture a majority of the pottery exports prior to 1770.[7]  Bristol merchants furnished ceramics to a large market; Wedgwood felt it was lucrative enough to strike up a business relationship with merchant Thomas Bentley of Bristol in 1764, and Henry Laurens kept his hand in the Bristol market well into the 1770s.

            Despite the economic positioning between London and Bristol, ships from Charleston found their way to other British and Continental ports as well.  The small town of Cowes, located on the Isle of Wight near Portsmouth, was the relay point for the market in northern Europe.[8]  “To Cowes and a Market” was a familiar phrase as nearly 60,000 barrels of rice and more than 5000 pounds of indigo were funneled through the English port from Charleston between 1760 and 1767.[9] 

            The western port town of Liverpool brought a unique market to Charleston during this period.  From 1762 to 1763, Liverpool was home port to more than 60% of the ships transporting slaves to Charleston, compared to only 37% in 1758 to 1760 and 0% in 1766.  Logically, they also conducted a small portion of the trade in rum and sugar to Charleston, and were responsible for a token shipment of bread and flour in the late 1750s.  China wares from “Liverpule” were listed in shipments and inventories throughout the 1760s, indicating that ships were also arriving from Liverpool with ceramics aboard.

            Dramatic fluctuations in commodities were the result of shift in trade policy as Britain and the colonies began to vie for greater control of the export market.  The volatility of the political and economic relations between England and her colonies provided the impetus for colonial merchants to find alternatives for their good, both imports and exports.  Whereas Charleston merchants were  generally content to receive goods from England, there was a gradual increase in intra-colonial trade throughout the mid eighteenth century, particularly with respect to grain products.[10]  Bread, flour, corn, rum, molasses, etc. were shipped from Boston, Philadelphia and New York in great quantities.  With the increase in imports from the north, locally made ceramic wares (primarily coarse earthenwares) began to infiltrate the ceramics market in Charleston during the latter half of the 1700s.  Archaeological samplings from the Judicial Center site reveal black-glazed earthenwares which may have originated from the Boston (Charlestown) area in the 1760s.

Charleston and the West Indies

            While the relations between Charleston and England accounted for the majority of the export trade from Charleston, the islands of the West Indies also enjoyed a favorable trade with the southern port.  Cast from a West Indian mold in the seventeenth century, Charleston never forgot her social and economic roots, and maintained strong ties with her island neighbors to the southeast.

The ties between the West Indies and Charleston formed the warp of an intricate system of trade, commerce, and familial relations which dictated the very essence of Charleston style and culture throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.  From its early settlement, Charleston was tied inextricably with the West Indies, having been born of the plantation culture on islands like Barbados, Antigua, or Jamaica.  These relationships were formed during the 1600s, when experienced planters from the Indies were recruited to establish Low Country plantations.  These relations were continued in the early part of the eighteenth century, when island plantation families sent sons and daughters to the Low Country to establish themselves as planters and merchants in the growing Carolina market.  Names like Middleton, Whaley, Perry and Lucas were found in both Charleston and the West Indies,[11] emphasizing the strength of the economic and social ties between the two colonial centers.  The new Carolinians are said to have exhibited cultural patterns more like the Caribbean colonies than northern counterparts.[12]  British traders also settled in Charleston, lending ties to the families of Nathaniel Russell, Benjamin Smith, and the Savages. 

These familial relations translated into business for the colonies, as goods were shipped between Charleston and the West Indies, and business partners established while in the Caribbean were extended to the new Carolina trade.  An excellent example can be seen in the relationship established by Charleston ship owners and merchants Thomas and William Savage, who co-owned the brigantine “Savage” with William Dickenson and John Young from Bermuda.[13]  Their 1764 cargo included earthenware, shoes, mirrors, haberdashery - finished goods from Britain being imported to Charleston via Bermuda.  In addition to the British trade through the Indies, the rising sugar trade, including the shipment of slaves, was an integral part of the Charleston-Indies connection as countless men, women, and children were transported to the plantations in the Low Country and the islands of the Caribbean, and sugar was exported to sites in Europe and the northern colonies.

Charleston’s Main Crops

            When early settlers to the Low Country were experimenting with crops for export, they realized that they would have to select those staples which could not be grown in England to avoid competing with their benefactors.[14]  Crops like grapes, olives, indigo and oranges were tried, but only a few withstood the sub-tropical growing season of the South.[15]  

Of the items attempted in Charleston, rice became the money crop for many South Carolina planters after 1705.  The Low Country was an excellent environment for rice production, equipped as it was with seemingly unlimited supplies of water, excellent transportation, and an easily obtainable source of manpower.  It was a staple crop which could be shipped with few problems, and it did not compete with the British export trade.[16]  By the second half of the 18th century rice commanded the greatest share of the market, delivering over 35,000 barrels a year to Great Britain and the West Indies.[17]  It is worth noting, however, that not all barrels of Carolina rice went to the commercial center of London (Table 1).  While London and Bristol were the largest importers of rice until 1760, other British towns pulled their share of Charleston exports as well.  Smaller ports which drew their share of the exports included Gosport,  Portsmouth and Poole in southern England, Glasgow to the north, and Liverpool to the west.  In 1763 it was the southern port of Cowes which dominated the market with almost 28,000 barrels of rice. 

            In the previous year, the market leader was not in Britain, but the West Indies.  Between 1760 and 1762, West Indian rice imports went from 9500 barrels to 23000 barrels.  As a comparison, corn exports to the Indies increased from 9000 in 1761 to 41500 in 1762.  It is possible that with the dramatic increase in the Liverpool slave trade, island populations grew, requiring larger quantities of staple crops were needed to support them.  Carolina rice was supplied to plantations in the West Indies, along with other items such as staves, tar, and pitch.  Items such as salt, corn, bread, etc. were imported to Charleston from other ports, and were reshipped to the islands.  This increased traffic to the Indies continued throughout the 1760s. 

            The second largest export from Charleston during pre-Revolutionary Charleston was indigo.  This dye plant, which was grown on Low Country plantations, produced a blue dye which could be extracted then shipped to ports throughout Europe for use in manufacturing cloth and other goods.   Nearly 1700 pounds of indigo were shipped in the 1760s.

The production of indigo was labor intensive, with [several hundred] pounds of indigo producing only ounces of dye.  The indigo season could be dovetailed with other crops, so it was possible for plantations to grow two different crops.  Unfortunately, like many other crops, indigo extracted nutrients from the soil, leaving it unfit for replanting after a few seasons.  Planters had to shift fields repeatedly, leaving the fallow field to nature.

            The exportation of indigo was not always dependable because of competition with other European and Asian crops.  In the Caribbean, Montserrat was one of the top exporters, along with ........  As production of cloth increased, the market for dyes, especially indigo, grew.  The trade finally dropped off by the 1790s, and was no longer viable after the mid 1800s.    

            Charleston's other exports included deerskins, tar and pitch, and naval stores, some of which were shipped in from Georgia and North Carolina.   Before indigo, deerskins ranked 2^nd in exports.   This trade in skins was much dependent upon relations with the Native American residents, which fluctuated during the 1760s as inter-tribal alliances threatened trade relations.

The Impact of Trade on the Ceramics Market

            While documentary evidence divulges little evidence of a direct link between Atlantic trade and the styles of imported wares, it is clear that certain relationships exist between the pattern of trade and the ceramics market in 1760s Charleston.  The most obvious influence is the effect of trade on the available trade credit or cash available for the purchase of the finer imported wares.  Charleston’s economic system produced a class of consumer who could well afford the imported Chinese porcelain, creamware, or salt-glazed stoneware which found its way into Charleston’s harbors.  This disposable income created a market which might not have existed in areas of more repressed economies. 

The dependence of Charleston upon the English market required that the importation of ceramic wares would be limited to those which were accessible to the English consumer.  While the best ceramics may not have been shipped to the colonies first, they did eventually arrive, and were eagerly purchased by the colonial consumers.  When trade patterns shifted from London to Bristol to Liverpool, the ceramics market flexed as well, as evidenced by probate listings of Liverpool china and the archaeological remains of Bristol delftwares. 

            Relations with the West Indies may also have influenced the types of ceramics found in Charleston.  Letters from Wedgwood indicate that certain types of wares, the green and gold glazed earthenwares, were shipped to the Indies when their popularity had waned in England and on the Continent.  These wares are found in Charleston probate inventories and archaeological excavations, while they are not as prevalent in northeastern colonies.[18] 

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[1]George C. Rogers, Papers of Henry Laurens.  Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.

[2]January 28, 1763.  Fair Lady Schooner.  Shipping Lists p. 122  British Public Records Office

[3]Shipping Lists p. 124

[4]Converse Clowse, Measuring Charleston’s Overseas Commerce, 1717-1767.  Statistics from the Port’s Naval Lists. (-----: University Press of America).  p.

[5]Clowse 59, 70.

[6] Walter Minchinton, “Richard Champion, Nicholas Pocock and the Carolina Trade,” South Carolina Historical Magazine 65:87-97.

[7] Sellars 1934

[8]Laurens, Papers.

[9]Clowse, 59, 70.

[10] Clowse, 44-45.

[11] Sellars 4-5.

[12] Jack P. Green, Colonial Carolina and the Caribbean Connection, South Carolina Historical Magazine 88 (1989):192-210.

[13] Ship manifests

[14] Edgar, Sellers

[15] Edgar p. 132-133

[16] Leila Sellars, Charleston Business on the Eve of the Revolution.

[17]Sellers

[18] Personal communication, Martha Pinello, archaeologist, Strawbery Banke Museum.

Articles on John Bartlam: MESDA Journal now online!

Some of the best original research on early southern potters (including John Bartlam) was done by Brad Rauschenberg of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA).  Back issues of the MESDA Journal, including the one on Bartlam, are now available at Archive.org.


Vol. 17, No. 2 (November 1991)
http://www.archive.org/details/journalofearlyso1721991muse

“John Bartlam,Who Established ‘new Pottworks in South Carolina’ and Became the First Successful Creamware Potter in America” by Bradford L. Rauschenberg 

"‘A Clay White as Lime….of Which There is a Design Formed by some Gentlemen to Make China’: The American and English Search for Cherokee Clay in South Carolina, 1745-75″ by Bradford L. Rauschenberg

“Escape from Bartlam: The History of William Ellis of Hanley” by Bradford L. Rauschenberg

“Brick and Tile Manufacturing in the South Carolina Low Country” by Bradford L. Rauschenberg

“Ceramic Menders and Decorators in Charleston, South Carolina Before 1820″ by Bradford L. Rauschenberg

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Vol. 17, No. 1 (May 1991)
http://www.archive.org/details/journalofearlyso1711991muse

“Andrew Duche: A Potter ‘a Little Too Much Addicted to Politicks’ ” by Bradford L. Rauschenberg

“Other Savannah River Potters, 1736-1814″ by Bradford L. Rauschenberg

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Vol. 22, No. 2 (Winter 1996)
http://www.archive.org/details/journalofearlyso2221996muse

“The Southern Porcelain Company of Kaolin, South Carolina: A Reassessment” by J. Garrison Stradling

” ‘At Elk Ridge Furneis As You See, William Williams He Mad Me’: The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Maryland Iron Furnace” by Ronald W. Fuchs II

Bartlam Collections update / SCIAA

We are in the process of updating the collections in preparation for a new home.  Reintegrating archival sherds, bagging and rebagging pieces on loan.  It is quite a bit of work to maintain a collection, and there has been no designated person on staff to do that for this collection.  It was never officially curated at SCIAA, but remained under the watchful eye of Dr. Stanley A. South, who has recently retired.  So, after 20 years at SCIAA it looks as though the John Bartlam archaeological collection will be moving to Charleston.  A mélange of imported and locally made 18th ceramics found near Charleston, this collection should be a great resource for both students of the art and avid history buffs.  Stay tuned for details about the move and when the sherds will become available for research.

Probate inventories fm Charleston

Name	Date	Inventory
Pepper, Gilbert	12/19/1766	1 bauffet and china	50.0.0
		27 stone plates	5.0.0
		2 flower pots	2.0.0
		2 dishes and 12 plates	6.0.0
		6 milk pans and 3 yellow do	2.5.0
		12 stone jugs	12.0.0
Fenden, Martha	2/16/1767	8 English milk pans 10/, a lot delph ware 12/6
		Lott yellow pans  20/	20/
		Lott China cups and saucers, milk pott, sugar dish, etc.	1.10.0
		4 teapotts 40/	40/
		lott stone plates and dishes 2/6
		2 large stone jarrs 30/	30/
Dutarque, John (CAPT)	1/15/1767	3 china bowls  30/  tea cups and saucers £3.	£3.30.0
		6 milk pans and wash bason  20/	20/
		15 china plates  50/	50/
		30 stone plates 2 dishes and a tureen	2.10.0
		tea pot, water pots, wash bason, pickle leaves
		milk pot, tin pan and bowl  1.10.0
Mathews, John	2/19/1767	1 doz enameld china plates	£6.0.0
		1 blue and white china soop dish and tea plates	7.0.0
		1 pair burnt china dishes	3.10.0
		6 pencild china dishes	2.10.0
		lot of china and glass	12.0.0
		5 stone dishes and 8 plates	2.0.0
Willett, Samuel		6 burnt china cups and saucers	1.5.0
		6 do do do  1 large china bowl	3.5.0
		6 delph bowls	1.0.0
		2 china milk pots  4 delph tea pots	10/
		a small quantity of earthenware of difft sorts	1.0.0
Pimento, Moses	7/4/1764	A parcell yello ware plates and dishes &c  10.0.0	10.0.0
		2-3 pt and 1 doz quart blue bowles @3/6 ea  2.0.0	2.0.0
		2 stone butter boats 5/    6 stone sugar pots  7/6
		13 quart do  16 pint do  & 1 jugg   4.0.0	4.0.0
		3-1/2 pr stone salts  8/9	8/9
		2 mustard potts  1/3	1/3
		6 blue stone chamber potts  30/	30/
		10 white do  30/	30/
		18 stone tea potts  25/	25/
		5 stone milk potts 5/	5/
		12 blue and white dishes  90/	90/
		2 stone dishes  20/	20/
		6 white wash hand basons  15/	15/
		1 doz stone soop plates  30/	30/
		1-1/2 doz blue do  12/6	12/6
		2 doz blue flat plates  30/	30/
Holmes, Isaac	5/9/1764	sundry china ware	35.12.1
		sundry stoneware	5.2.10
		2 pint measures and 2 tea potts	1.2.7
		3 doz chamber potts & 12 water juggs	1.16.0
		4 oil kettles  3/   12 fish plates  10/	13/
		7 coffee mills, 8 tea kettles	6.9.0
		5 coffee potts  29/  6 sauce pans  17-1/3	2.6.3
		6 chaffing dishes  13/2	13/2
		5 compleat setts of tea china	10.4.0
		5 painted tea cannisters	17/6
		sundry stone ware	11.16.3
		5 coffee pots	29/
		[14 windsor chairs@ 7/6 =  5.5.0]
		15 earthen butter potts	1.17.6
		[12 doz wooden bowls and platters  15.0.0]
		1 closet of china and glass ware	8.0.0
		1 Do of stoneware	5.0.0
		1 beaufet of chinaware	70.0.0
		1 cup board of china and glass ware	20.0.0
		1 coffee pot and 2 chased waiters  [silver]	116.5.0
		flower potts  (? cost)
		1/4 of ship Little Carpenter, 1/3 of ship Kendall
		List of debts owed to estate
Air, Ann	c March 1764	SHOP GOODS
(widow of merchant)		8-1/2doz stone cups and saucers, 5 flower horns, 5 small bottles	2.16.10-1/2
		4 doz stone tea potts	5.0.0
		4 doz milk potts  50/	50/
		22 sugar dishes  30/	30/
		11 butter boats  10/	10/
		45 bowls  60/	60/
		6 hand basins  10/	10/
		59 plates  50/	50/
		11 earthen pans, 1 dutch oven, 13 cruets and 3 doz stone mugs	3.2.6
		39 stone jugs  19"10	19"10
		51 chamber potts	8.10.0
		31 stone jarrs	4.17.6
		HOUSE AND KITCHEN
		70 china cups and saucers	8.12.6
		5 burnt & 2 English china bowls	9.10.0
		16 burnt China Plates and Dishes	4.10.0
		A Parcel of Glass Stone & Earthenware with some China in C. Cupboard	5.10.0
		[18 pewter plates, 6 dishes, 1 cover  8.0.0]	8.0.0
Parmenter, Joseph	3/26/1764	lott of earthenware	1.0.0
		1 box and a parcell of crockery ware phials and earthen	1.10.0
		2 dishes & 7 plates	3.0.0
		1 lot juggs & jarrs	4.10.0
		A set china ware	1.10.0
		some brown china	1.11.0
		3 punch bowls  12/6	12/6
		2 tea pots 1 milk pot  7/6	7/6
Harvey, Arnold	10/17/1764	[1 cypress beaufet ]	10.0.0
		1/2 doz Burnt China plates	5.10.0
		1/2 doz blue & white & 2 dishes	1.0.0
		bowles tea cups and saucers	1.0.0
		stone mug earthen porringers earthen cake dishes & pewter tankard & 1 stone mug	15.0.0
		[1 flowered jepand sugar box	1.10.0
		1 white mug
		1 coffee pott
		1 milk pan
Mathew, John	3/10/1760	4 doz of stone plates & 12 dishes	9.0.0
		A Lott of China Bowls Cups & Saucers	7.0.0
		1 set of silver castors compleat	120.0.0
		1 coffe pott silver	90.0.0
		1 do tankard £90  2 do muggs 60	110.0.0
		1 silver sauce boat  £30  1 pap boat £5  1 punch ladle 7	42.0.0
		15 do table spoons, & 1 soup spoon	80.0.0
		1 waiter silver	15.0.0
		18 silver Tea spoons 1 pr tongs 2 strainers	20.0.0
		13 stone juggs £6-10"  10 doz of bottles  £5	11.10.0
		12 stone jarrs £3  1 small case £1  1 Caedar Table  £3	17.0.0
		1 pewter turin & six water plates	1.10.0
		10 pewter dishes 3 1/2 dozen do plates	22.10.0
Steel, Dr. Jas	4/19/1760	6 enamled China plates 5 stone do	6.0.0
		4 earthen do  3 earthen Bowls 15/  5 China bowls 45/	3.0.0
		6 burnt china cups & sawsers 45/  1 Doz: Blue and white do £2.10	4.15.0
		2 coffey cups & sawsers  2 milk pots 25/	1.5.0
		7 tea pots & coffey do 55/   1 spoon boat 2 pickle do  7/6	3.2.6
		[32 pewter plates 6 dishes 17 knives & forks]	16.5.0
Cordes, Henrietta C	1/10/1765	1 doz enam'ld China plates	6.0.0
		1 pr China dishes 17 China plates 17 do cups & saucers	14.10.0
		Old china cups
		2 cruits  2 salts  Mustard Pot  1 pr decanters  6 China &c bowls	10.0.0
		2 silver caudle cups wt 72 oz	198.0.0
		1 coffee pot  2 pepper boxes  1 Tea Pott  2 salvers  1 milk pott	173.5.0
		1 doz plates	5.0.0
		15 old do	3.0.0
		1 coffee pot
		5 tea potts  12/6
		4 butter cups & 2 sugar pots @ 2/6
		9 chamber pots  65/
Johnston, Andrew	ca April 1764	One set enameled china viz One Tureen, Twelve Soop & twelve flat Plates and six d Dishes	25.0.0
		Sixteen China, Desert Pieces	8.0.0
		Half a dozen large Breakfast Cups, half dozen Small Cups and half a dozen Coffee Cups and Saucers	7.0.0
		One pair blue China Muggs	5.0.0
		Two large Enameled burnt China bowls and one smaller ditto	7.0.0
		Two Prusian China Mugs	2.0.0
		Three Small blue and white bowls and Sugar dish	1.10.0
		Two large Salad Dishes one broke	3.0.0
		One Fish Dish one pair smaller
		One China Soop Dish & one Dozen Plates	8.0.0
		Eight China petty pans, Eight old soop plates	3.0.0
		one pair China Salts & one pair CHina butter boats	1.10.0
		Two China butter plates, & three Tea Potts	1.0.0
		Two dozen white stone plates & three dishes & one stone mustard pott	1.10.0
		[Twelve goof sticks and balls]	3.0.0
		Six Pewter Water plates & 2 dishes	10.0.0
		Two dozen plates and six dishes	7.0.0
		One pewter tankard half Gallon Pott & Tin Funnell	1.10.0
		[Books....Peregrine Pickle 4 Volls]	2.0.0
		One Oyl cloth	4.0.0
Lloyd, Mary	3/5/1764	5 old china bowls	2.0.0
		9 coffee, 1 tea cup and saucers	1.10.0
		4 China & delph plates, 2 black tea pots, 1 butter pot & 1 sugar pot	1.0.0
		19 China plates, 1 coffee pot stand	6.0.0
		4 stone dishes, 2 fuit plates & 2 stone flower pots 30/  1 stew pan 6/	4.10.0
Eddings, William	ca Nov 1766	A Lot Delph Ware  1 Do Enameled China Plates	10.10.0
		1 Large China Bowl, 1/2 do fluted enameled China cups and Saucers	8.10.0
		1/2 Doz Afternoon cups & saucers,  1/2 doz do	4.15.0
		1 Do China sups & Saucers, 1/2 do 1/2 pint bowls	6.0.0
		2 Glass & 3 China Bowls, 11 China Coffee Cups	7.10.0
		1 Pr Glass Candlesticks, 1/2 Do China soop plates and 4 shallow Do	3.15.0
		1/2 Do China breakfast China cups sawcers and Sugar dish	3.0.0
		A lot black stone ware  40/, 10 China cups and Saucers (bro. and red) 40/	4.5.0
		2 China mugs 30/  a Lot China & Glass bowls  40/	3.10.0
		1 Large Delf Bowl 15/	15/
		A Lot Green Stone Ware	45/
		A Lot White Stone Ware	80/
		22 white Stone plates  25/
Verdier, Andrew	c 1766	2 Large white Stone Dishes	3.0.0
		3 White Stone Fish Dishes	1.10.0
		2 white wash hand basons	10/
		4 Green Fish Dishes, different sizes	2.0.0
		1 White stone pitcher	7/6
		A Small parcel Yellow ware	1.0.0
		11 White plates & 1 dish	1.0.0
		1 blue and white china bowl (Crack'd)	1.10.0
		1 - 3 pint enameld ditto	2.0.0
		2 small Enameled China Bowls	15/
		1 set Blue and White Chine Cups & Saucers	1.15.0
		8 old cups and saucers	10/
		1 Green Salad Bowl and Dish	1.10.0
		2 small Green Fish Dishes & 1 Doz do Plates	1.15.0
		4 Blue and White Plates & 2 Dishes	10/
		1 Collour'd Coffee Potts	7/6
		2 English China butter boats	5/
Wilson, William	11/15/1764	34 Delf bowls & 33 Delf plates	5.0.0
		21 Black and Enamd Tea Potts	1.101
		3 doz Quart Stone Muggs No 1,   2 doz & 7 ditto  No 2	7.10.0
		3 doz & 9 pint ditto No 4	2.5.0
		8 doz white Stone Cups and Saucers	2.0.0
		1-1/2 doz milk potts & 1/2 doz mustard potts	1.0.0
		8 Flower horns & 11 Sugar dishes	3.0.0
		8 Butter boats & 5 pr Salts	10/
		1 Large Tureen	1.5.0
		1 doz Stone plates & 8 Stone fruit dishes	2.0.0
		1 doz pint Stone muggs & 3 Chamber pots, 5 Wash hand basons	1.0.0
		2 Green fruit dishes & Stands 2 ditto tea potts & 2 Milk potts 1 Butter tub & stand & 1 Sugar dish 5 fruit dishes	3.0.0
		12 doz Stone cups & Saucers 2 Doz Blue & White ditto 1-1/4 doz Stone Coffee Cups 2 painted glass flower pots, 16 Common wine Glasses	5.0.0
		1 doz small green plates, 1 Doz larger, 2 large Oval Dishes 4 smaler ditto	[no price]
		4 smaler ditto 6 Large pickle leaves	"
		4 Smaller ditto 4 Small pickle leaves	"
		1 Doz large Tortoiseshell plates, 1/2 doz smaller ditto	"
		1 Doz Blue Dutch plates, 1 doz Breakfast ditto	"
		1 Coleflower tub & stand, 1 pineapple ditto	"
		1 coleflower Sugar dish and milk pott, 1 Tea pott & milk pott	"
		1 Tortoiseshell Tea pott  2 sugar boxes  3 milk potts & 3 slop bowles	"
Wilson, William (cont.)		3 enameled Tea potts  3 sugar dishes & 2 milk potts	"
		1 Doz Black Gilt [teapots]	"
		1 Pr large faces & 2 pr smaller ditto	[no price]
		3 Barbers basons  3 bottles and stands	"
		2 large oval dishes 3 smaller ditto  4 round ditto	"
		1 doz Stone plates	"
		6 Large Black Gilt Tea Pots 6 small do	"
		3 white stone butter boats	"
		3 Tortoiseshell ditto  3 ditto Tea potts 3 ditto Ditto	"
		3 do Barl pint mugs & 1 smaller ditto	"
		6 Black half pint ditto  1 Blk Bbl Quart mugg	"
		1 doz Notingham Quart mugs	"
		2 doz white Quart ditto	"
		1 doz Dutch pint ditto	"
		1 doz Notingham pt do	"
		1/2 doz white Stone pint Do	"
		1 doz 3 pt Bowles  1/2 Doz Galn Do, 1 Doz qut do	"
		1 doz patty pans	"
Guerard, John	5/30/1764	Compleat set of China viz 10 flat blue & White Dishes, 2 soop Do, 1 Pr sallad ditto, 2 doz Flat Plates & 2 doz Soup ditto	30.0.0
		1 dozn Red and White shallow plates	6.0.0
		14 Old Plates 3 Soup ditto & 4 old dishes	9.0.0
		1 Pr Octagon plates	1.10.0
		2 Red and White small dishes	1.5.0
		1 Compleat set of red and white table china	20.0.0
		6 small blue and white Tea Cups & Saucers, 9 large ditto & 1 Blue & White Milk pot	4.0.0
		6 Blue and White small butter dishes	1.10.0
		9 Blue & White Coffee cups	1.5.0
		1 Mug	12/6
		2 Large blue & white Punch Bowls with 4 smaller ditto	8.10.0
		1 Large Red & White ditto & 1 Blue & White fluted ditto	3.0.0
		6 Blue & White slop bowls & 2 Red & White ditto Bow China	3.5.0
		Stone Ware
		3 dozn shallow plated, 1 doz Small Ditto & 9 soup ditto	4.5.0
		2 Oval DIshes 1 Soup ditto & 2 fruit Do	2.15.0
		6-1/2 Pint bowls, 1 Dozn Delph Ware wash hand basons & 7 Pint Bowls	2.3.9
		2 Baking pans
		2 three gallon juggs,  2 large blue & white ditto & 1 small ditto	2.5.0
		2 half pint pipkins & 1 stewing pan	10/
		6 Tea Potts	1.0.0