In July of 2018 - I posted an article showing a variety of artifacts recovered from a shipwreck off the coast of New Castle, New Hampshire. According to a feature story written for Fosters in September 2014, "Ray Demers has spent the past 50 years on a personal odyssey of exploration and documentation of a shipwreck he discovered off the coast of New Castle, New Hampshire (next to Portsmouth, New Hampshire) in the 1960s. Demers has scoured countless books, letters and documents as well as the murky world beneath the surface of New Hampshire's waters in his quest to understand and identify the wreck. He considers the story to be a unique piece of state history."
Nonetheless, I revisited this collection this week at the New Castle Historical Society, some of which will be published in my forthcoming 535-page book, A City on the River: The Early Red Earthenware of the Hartford, Connecticut Area, and I have posted four articles this morning showing some of these objects.
Artifact Number 4 -- These are earthenware pitchers that are thought to be from the 1700s and Caribbean in origin. Furthermore, earthenware made in the Caribbean has also been recovered from a pre-1742 archaeological context at Faneuil Hall in Boston.
Please Stay Tuned...Much More to Come...
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