THE SALT-GLAZED STONEWARE 91
STONEWARE MANUFACTURING PROCESSES 102
THE EARTHENWARES 105
CONCLUSIONS 109
[Illustration: Figure 1.--MODERN YORKTOWN, VIRGINIA, showing original
survey plat on which William Rogers' name appears on lots 51 and 55.
Additional properties which he acquired are mentioned in his will as
lots 59, 74, and 75.]
The "Poor Potter" of Yorktown
_Pottery making in colonial Virginia, strongly discouraged by
a mercantilistic England, seemingly was almost nonexistent
according to the Governor's reports which mention but one nameless
"poor potter" at Yorktown, whose wares are dismissed as being
low in quantity and quality. This paper, the combined effort
of a historian and an archeologist, provides evidence that the
Yorktown potter was neither poor nor nameless, that his ware was
of sufficient quantity and quality to offer competition to English
imports, and that official depreciation of his economic importance
apparently was deemed politic by the colonial Governor._
THE AUTHORS: _C. Malcolm Watkins is curator of cultural history in
the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of History and Technology,
and Ivor Noël Hume is director of archeology at Colonial
Williamsburg and an honorary research associate of the Smithsonian
Institution._