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This card, which was printed first on December 29,
1769, fixes the date of the beginning of this enterprise, as
it clearly states that the works were then in course of erec-
tion. Subsequently the proprietors advertised for bones,
offering twenty shillings per thousand " for any quantity
of horses or beeves shank-bones, whole or broken, fifteen
shillings for hogs, and ten shillings for calves and sheep
(,a proportionable price for knuckle bones), delivered at
the china factory in Southwark," concluding with the an-
nouncement that the capital works of the factory were
then completed and in full operation. The projectors of
this enterprise were Gousse Bonnin, who had most proba-
bly learned his trade at Bow, and George Anthony Morris,
of Philadelphia. In January, 1771, they applied to the
Assembly for pecuniary assistance, in the form of a pro-
vincial loan, the petition as laid upon the table in the
Assembly room, being given in full by Colonel Frank M.
Etting, in his History of Independence Hall, which reads
as follows
"THE ADDRESS OFT LIE PROPRIETORS OF' THE CHINA
MAINUFACTORY.
Worthy Sirs :-We, the Subscribers, actuated as
strongly by the sincerest Attachment to the interest of
the Public as to our private Emolument, have at our sole
Risque and Expense introduced into this Province a Manu-
facture of Porcelain or China Earthen Ware, a Commodi-
ty, which by Beauty and Excellence, hath forced its way
into every refined Part of the Globe, and created various
imitative Attempts, in its Progress through the different

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