Here are a group of pages that include my nephew Jason from Volume I of my forthcoming two-volume, 1,660 page, tenth book, titled, An Early Industry of Household Wares: The Red Earthenware of Salem Village, Danvers, Peabody, Beverly and Salem, Massachusetts.
For those of you who do not know - Jason has been a part of some pretty important discoveries in New England through the years, such as helping identify the long forgotten stoneware kiln remains of William Pecker (1757-1820) in South Amesbury (Merrimacport), Massachusetts, which led to multiple articles in the New England Antiques Journal, and the publication of my fourth book, titled, South Amesbury's Red Earthenware & Stoneware: The 1791-1820 William Pecker Pottery: https://historicbeverly.net/product/south-amesburys-red-earthenware-stoneware-production/.
He was also a part of my research at National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., where we helped reidentify the eighteenth and nineteenth century red earthenware of the Bradford family in Kingston, Massachusetts, later published in the May 2019 issue of Maine Antique Digest, and my fifth book, titled, 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/. Although the Bradfords are also a part of the new book!
However, the most historically important discovery might be a slip decorated red earthenware sherd from a pan that we found about a decade ago along a river in Danversport, Massachusetts. The spiraled slip design on this sherd is similar to cobalt decoration applied on stoneware produced in Manhattan in the eighteenth century, along with elsewhere in the Hudson River Valley region, New Jersey and Connecticut. The inspiration for the design on the red earthenware sherd likely came from European design, although this type of design has also been discovered on related artifacts recovered by archaeologists in Ipswich, Marblehead and Salem, Massachusetts. This is a type of local production that seems to date from the eighteenth century, and is related to some extant forms in both private and museum collections. All of this will be explained in my forthcoming tenth book.
The second group of pages shows my nephew studying with me at the City of Boston Archaeology Lab in West Roxbury, Massachusetts in 2013, where he is holding a cannon ball from the Battle of Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts on June 17, 1775.
A Preview of Forthcoming Two-Volume, Tenth Book!\
Please Stay Tuned...Much More to Come...
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