CHAPTER XXI.
ADDITIONAL HISTORICAL FACTS.
A T Norwich, Conn., C. Potts & Son made earthen-
ware in 1796. On page 104 of this volume refer-
ence is made to a ring-shaped cider bottle of
black-glazed red ware, made at " Bean Hill," which was
intended for carrying on the arm of a mower in the field.
One of these curious vessels has recently come to light
and is here shown.
About the year i8oo Adam States was managing a
pottery at Stonington, Conn., which is known to have
been continued after 1804 by his sons, Adam and Joseph
States.
Mr. H. W. Erving of Hartford, Conn., has furnished
an extract from the Hartford Evening Post of May 26,
1883, from the Recollections of Mr. Albert Risley, a
potter for sixty years in the pottery of Messrs. 0. H.
Seymour and Stanley B. Bosworth :
" From what I have heard in years gone by, some time
previous to i8oo,-about 1790,-John Souter, an English-
man, came to Hartford and built a pottery on the north-
east corner of Potter and Front Streets (this was a few
rods south of the present pottery, No. 38 Front Street.
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