POTTERY AND PORCELAIN.

was made, but to what extent I cannot say : However the
news was soon conveyed to England that the manufacture
had commenced, when speedily arrived cargoes of the
English or Dutch Ware sufficient to supply the demand
of the Colony or Colonies. Unable to withstand the com-
petition with the manufacturers in Europe, Mr. Bonnin
ceased his labours.
" The dinner set of his China was all that my father
got for his £500.
"The quality of it was about equal to the Delft ware of
Holland of which much of the American table sets was
composed, and which was first imported into England
previously to being sent to this Country, the direct trade
being prohibited.
"JAMES 1\EASE.
"February 22, 1841."
It does not seem probable that porcelain_was ever
made here. All white ware was known, at that time, as
"china." The wording of some of the advertisements,
however, would seem to indicate that the proprietors had
the manufacture of a finer ware in contemplation before
the disastrous termination of the enterprise. At least no
examples of true porcelain made at this factory have, as
yet, come to light.
The year 1769 seemed to have marked the establish-
ment of several impor            anufactories in the
United States. While the Philadelphia china works were
n course oferection, a similar project was under con-
sideration in Boston, as appears by an advertisement in
the Boston Evening Post (weekly), of May 15, 1769, a tran-

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