An object that was previously highlighted in my fifth book, titled, A Celebrated Industry: The Historic Wares of Southeastern Massachusetts, Bristol County and Cape Cod is a red earthenware jar adorned with a Quaker hat as the finial: https://historicbeverly.net/product/a-celebrated-industry-the-historic-wares-of-southeastern-massachusetts-bristol-county-and-cape-cod/.
I consider this object to be one of the most historically significant surviving examples of red earthenware from New England, perhaps second to the mid-eighteenth century slip decorated red earthenware pot from Charlestown, Massachusetts, which is on the cover of my third book, titled, 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/.
However, this object will be published again in my forthcoming 500-600 page tenth book, titled, An Early Industry of Household Wares: The Red Earthenware of Salem Village, South Danvers and Peabody, Massachusetts.
This information will be published in my forthcoming book, "...Quakerism was one of the radical sects that emerged from the English Civil War in the 1640s with the central figure being George Fox (1624–1691), the founder of the religion. The first New England Quakers were New Englanders before they became Quakers. Most of them, or their parents, arrived from England in the great Puritan migration of the 1630s.
Among those early Quakers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony was Lawrence (ca. 1598-1660) and Cassandra Southwick (ca. 1601-1660), who along with their children were severely persecuted for their Quaker faith in Salem in the 1650s. However, before Lawrence Southwick was a Quaker, he arrived in Salem in the 1630s, where some accounts suggest he was in the business of making glass and red earthenware with Annanias Concklin, Obadiah Holmes and William Osborne. Upon arriving in Salem, these men were also given land at Strong Water Brook, near the boundary line between Salem town and the Middle Precinct, which was between Salem and Salem Village at that time, and located today between Salem and Danvers, Massachusetts. But there is no indication that this red earthenware business ever happened.
Another attempt at red earthenware production in Salem in the late 1630s or early 1640s was with John Pride (1590-1647), who was registered as a potter in Salem. But it is unclear if he actually operated a business.
Pride was born about 1590 in England; he arrived with his wife around 1636 or 1637 in Salem. Pride's name first appears when, as a fisherman, he was granted lands on Juniper Point and Winter Islands. The town records of Salem show that he was given one-half an acre of land on Winter Harbor by their home and five acres on "Darbie Fort side" on March 20, 1636/37. He received another twenty acres in a land grant in Salem between December 26, 1636 and July 12, 1637.John was the first recorded potter in New England, where he was registered in Salem, as early as 1641. But the Drinker family in Charlestown appears to have been the first to actually operate a pottery business in Massachusetts in the 1640s. Although, like many of the potters in Charlestown before the American Revolution, Pride was an English trained potter. He died in 1647, but there is no indication in his inventory that he owned a potter's business or any potter's supplies, such as a potter's wheel, a kiln, clay or any lead used in the glazing process of red earthenware.
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