Just F.Y.I. - my new 709-page book, titled, An Influential Family of Early Potters: The Clarks of New Hampshire and Related Businesses, is now available to purchase; here is a link for those interested: https://historicbeverly.net/product/an-influential-family-of-early-potters-the-clarks-of-new-hampshire-and-related-businesses/. For anyone who pre-ordered the book, it has shipped and should arrive any day.
The book is currently available through my publisher Historic Beverly in Massachusetts, although it will eventually be sold by a number of retailers and bookstores across the country.
For an overview of the book: New Hampshire’s red earthenware industry in the eighteenth century was largely contained to wares imported to the southern part of the state and along the seacoast by potters in Massachusetts, especially those from the pre-1775 industry in Charlestown, Massachusetts. But there was also some local colonial production, such as Samuel Marshall, who operated a red earthenware business in Portsmouth before 1750. There may have also been some obscure potters who are in many ways forgotten today, and others who are only remembered based one or two objects that survive, including some production in the Concord area that happened as early as 1765. But it was in 1775 when Peter Clark left Braintree, Massachusetts for Lyndeborough, New Hampshire that a transformation happened with the state’s red earthenware industry. Clark and his family helped ignite production in the state for over 100 years that spread through Concord, up towards Lake Winnipesaukee, the White Mountains and into Vermont. This book is the first of its kind to take an in-depth look at the red earthenware made by the Clarks in New Hampshire through archaeology, a historical context, an aesthetic appeal and how this family was instrumental with red earthenware production in New Hampshire and Vermont, circa 1775-1880s.
If you would like to purchase any of the other books in my ongoing pottery book series - here are links to each of the titles --
1) The Beverly Pottery: The Wares of Charles A. Lawrence: https://historicbeverly.net/product/the-beverly-pottery-the-wares-of-charles-a-lawrence/
2) The Moses B. Paige Company: The Last of the Peabody Potteries: https://historicbeverly.net/product/the-moses-b-paige-company-the-last-of-the-peabody-potteries/
3) The Dawn of Independence, the Death of An Industry: The Pottery of Charlestown, Massachusetts: https://historicbeverly.net/product/the-dawn-of-independence-the-death-of-an-industry/
4) South Amesbury’s Red Earthenware & Stoneware Production: The 1791-1820 William Pecker Pottery: https://historicbeverly.net/product/south-amesburys-red-earthenware-stoneware-production/
5) A Celebrated Industry: The Historic Wares of Southeastern Massachusetts, Bristol County and Cape Cod: https://historicbeverly.net/product/a-celebrated-industry-the-historic-wares-of-southeastern-massachusetts-bristol-county-and-cape-cod/
6) A City on the River: The Early Red Earthenware of the Hartford, Connecticut Area: https://historicbeverly.net/product/a-city-on-the-river-the-early-red-earthenware-of-the-hartford-connecticut-area/
7) From One Town Came Many: The Red Earthenware Industry of Ancient North Yarmouth Maine: https://historicbeverly.net/product/94597/
Note: And for those curious as to what is next - I'm working on a two-volume Western New York book that will run over 1,300 pages, which should be published sometime later this year: http://www.earlyamericanceramics.com/2024/12/an-update-on-forthcoming-two-volume.html
New Hampshire Book Now Available!
Please Stay Tuned...Much More to Come...
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