Some Forthcoming Published Material About Late 18th and/or 19th Century Red Earthenware Production in Bennington, Vermont

There will be a lot of exciting new information included from a group of researchers and scholars that will be published as part of my forthcoming 600-700 page, eleventh book, titled, A Monumental History: Stories of Red Earthenware Production in Western Massachusetts, the Berkshires and Vermont.

This new information will include research from New York author and historian Warren Broderick, who finally identified part of the life of a man named Abel Wadsworth, who worked for a time as a red earthenware potter in Bennington, Vermont, circa 1792-1810/1817.

In fact, some of this information will be included in one of my forthcoming published feature stories that should be out in the next month or so, where the article also discusses a nineteenth century slip decorated red earthenware jar with its original lid. The jar was discovered about ten to fifteen years ago by Sagamore, Massachusetts antiques dealer and the former art director at the Heritage Museums and Gardens on Cape Cod, Brian Cullity. The style of the slip on the jar closely resembles a late eighteenth century slip decorated red earthenware jug owned by the Bennington Museum. The jug is believed to have been made by a potter named Abel Wadsworth (born 1770), while working at the Captain John Norton (1758-1828) Pottery in Bennington. Both Norton and Wadsworth were natives of Connecticut, with Wadsworth living in Bennington, as early as 1792, until the 1810-1817 period. The jar also also retains a fascinating history of ownership with the Dickinson family, which was part of a broader network of families living in western Vermont after the American Revolution. This new information will also be included in the forthcoming book!

Note: In the meantime - for more information about Captain John Norton - see my sixth book, titled, 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/.

Late 18th and/or 19th Century Red Earthenware Probably from Bennington, VT

All Adorned with Slip Decoration

See Article for More Information

Photo Courtesy: Private Collection, Vermont Historical Society and Bennington Museum

Please Stay Tuned...Much More to Come...