A few days ago I posted a story about the pottery career of Charles Bailey (1744-1835), who likely trained at the circa 1764-1799 Daniel Bayley Pottery Company in Newburyport, Massachusetts before 1767, arriving in Brookfield, Massachusetts in 1768. The title of that article was "Charles Bailey: A Possible 18th and 19th Century Red Earthenware Potter in Newburyport, Mass., North Brookfield, Mass. and Hardwick, Vermont": http://www.earlyamericanceramics.com/2025/07/charles-bailey-possible-18th-and-19th.html.
It was then published in 1950 in Lura Woodside Watkins' (1897-1982) book, Early New England Potters and Their Wares that he was producing red earthenware in Hardwick, Vermont in 1772. However, Hardwick was not established until 1781, whereas I think "1772" may have been a typo, and it may have meant to read "1782." There is no record I can find of Bailey living in Hardwick in the 1770s, but his daughter, Abigail Bailey (1782-1855) was born in Hardwick on March 2, 1782.
Bailey then appears to remain in Vermont until the late 1780s or 1790, which is when he is cited in the 1790 United States Federal Census as living with his family in Hanover, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. There is no record of a red earthenware business existing during this period in Hanover, although this year did coincide with Congress adding a ten percent import duty on imported pottery in 1789 in an attempt to encourage domestic red earthenware and stoneware production. Perhaps this act encouraged Bailey to establish a business in eastern Massachusetts, which had a much larger marketplace than the countryside of Vermont or even central Massachusetts.
Bailey then seems to return to Vermont by the 1820s (but he may have returned much sooner than that), which is where his wife, Abigail (1744-1823) passed away in Hardwick on February 15, 1823. I also noted in the post from the other day that Bailey is then cited in the 1830 United States Federal Census as living in Perinton, Monroe County, New York. The reason he moved to this location is unclear, although at some point the Drake family from New Jersey established a red earthenware business in Perinton.
Bailey then reportedly died in Hardwick on August 15, 1835; the only death record I can find is the application that was filed on November 9, 1921 by a descendent in Iowa, as part of the U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. There is no record of a Charles Bailey dying in Monroe County, New York in 1835 or any other year in the 1830s.
Some More Information About the Life and Pottery Career of Charles Bailey
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