Stoneware of eastern Virginia

(12) Records of the 1820 Census of Manufacturers, Henrico County, lists Thomas Amos, stoneware manufactory; Samuel Frayser, stoneware manufactory; John P. Schermerhorn, stoneware of all kinds; and Samuel Wilson, stoneware of all kinds. See Kurt C. Russ and W. Sterling Schermerhorn, "Rockett's Red Glare: J. P. Schermerhorn and the Early Richmond Area Stoneware Industry," Ceramics in America, 2005 (forthcoming).

(13) This three-gallon vessel is illustrated in Comstock, The Pottery of the Shenandoah Valley Region, p. 317, Fig. 6.3, where it is incorrectly attributed to Rockbridge County.

(14) Kurt C. Russ, "The Remarkable Stoneware of George N. Fulton, circa 1856-1894," Ceramics in America, 2004, pp. 157-178.

(15) The pottery was apparently gutted in a fire in 1865 (Richmond Whig, April 15, 1865).

(16) Records of the 1820 Census of Manufacturers, Henrico County; "Henrico Land Tax Lists, 1818-1851" (microfilm); and "Henrico Personal Property Tax Lists 1818-1820" (microfilm; both microfilms in the Library of Virginia).

(17) See "Henrico County Land Tax Lists, 1830-1861, 1838-1844, and 1844-1863" (ibid.).

(18) The Richmond Business Directory, 1860, lists an earthenware related business operated at this location by Sweeney.

(19) "Henrico County Land Tax Lists, 1820-1821"; and Records of the 1820 Census of Manufacturers, Henrico County.

(20) Dennis J. Pogue, "An Analysis of Wares from the Trees Point Stoneware Pottery (44Cc95), Charles City County, Virginia," Quarterly Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of Virginia, vol. 36, nos. 3, 4 (September and December 1981), pp. 122-136.

ROBERT HUNTER is the editor of Ceramics in America, published annually by the Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee. He is a partner in Period Designs, a firm specializing in reproductions of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century decorative arts.

KURT C. RUSS is an archaeologist, stoneware collector, consultant, real estate agent, and the author of many publications on Virginia ceramics and furniture.

MARSHALL GOODMAN is an antiques dealer and decorative arts consultant in Richmond.

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