The 19th Century Melville Pottery Possibly Located in Vermont - Perhaps Another Undocumented Red Earthenware Business?

While recently scanning through some historic newspaper archives, I came across an interesting account published as "Miscellaneous" in the Middlebury Register and Addison County Journal from Tuesday March 2, 1847. The account titled "Turning Over a New Leaf" cites Sam Dana and his son Sam Dana, Jr, possibly from Bow, Vermont, whereas the younger Dana explains to his father how he is becoming a responsible adult. 

The part of this story that I found interesting is that the younger Dana cites the Melville Pottery, possibly located in Vermont: "...With the proprietor he bargained for a little load of earthen ware, such as milk pans, bean pots, jugs, &c., agreeing to settle for the load, as soon as he could turn it into cash, and then take on the same terms, and so continuing as long as the arrangement should be agreeable to both parties..."

This is the only instance that I haver head of the "Melville Pottery" manufacturing red earthenware, in what I suspect is Vermont in the 1840s. Has anyone else ever head of this business? See below for the full account of what happened to Sam Dana Jr. and this order of "earthenware."

The 19th Century Melville Pottery Possibly Located in Vermont

Published in the Middlebury Register and Addison County Journal on March 2, 1847

Cites the Melville Pottery

See Above for More Information

Published in the Middlebury Register and Addison County Journal on March 2, 1847

Cites the Melville Pottery

See Above for More Information

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