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Falls Art Tile Works, informs me tliat the remains of an old 

 kiln fire-liole, saved from the ravages of time by being thoroughly 

 vitrified, still exist a mile or two below South Amboy, N. J. 

 This is a relic of the earlier pottery ware made on this continent, 

 and was most probably established by the Dutch to make stew- 

 pans and pots. 



Dr. Daniel Coxe, of London, proprietor, and afterward gov- 

 ernor, of West Jersey, was undoubtedly the first to make white 

 ware on this side of the Atlantic. While he did not come to 

 Anierica himself, he caused a pottery to be erected at Burlington, 

 N. J., previous to the year 1690, through his agent, John Tatham, 

 who, with Daniel Coxe, his son, looked after his large interests 

 here. It is recorded that in 1691 Dr. Coxe sold to the " West New 

 Jersey Society " of London, consisting of forty-eight persons, his 

 entire interests in the province, including a dwelling-house and 

 "pottery-house" with all the tools, for the sum of £9,000 sterling. 

 We are indebted to Mr John D. McCormick, of Trenton, N. J., 

 for calling attention to the following reference to this pottery, 

 supposed to have been written about 1688, in the Rawlinson 

 manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, England: "I 

 have erected a pottery att Burlington for white and chiney 

 ware, a greate quantity to ye value of £1200 have beene already 

 made and vended in ye Country, neighbour Colonies and ye 

 Islands of Barbadoes and Jamaica where they are in great re- 

 quest. I have two houses and kills with all necessary imple- 

 ments, diverse workemen, and other servants. Have expended 

 thereon about £2000." * It is possible to gain some idea of the 

 nature of this " white and chiney ware " by examining the state- 

 ments of Dr. Plot, a contemporary, who published his Natural 

 History of Staffordshire two years before, as quoted by the late 

 Mr. Llewellynn Jewitt, in his Ceramic Art of Great Britain : 

 *' The greatest pottery they have in this country is carried on at 

 Burslem, near Newcastle-under-Lyme, where for making their 

 different sorts of pots they have as many different sorts of clay 

 .... and are distinguish't by their colours and uses as fol- 

 loweth : — 



" 1. Bottle day, of a bright Avhitish streaked yellow colour. 



"2. Hard fire day, of a duller whitish colour, and fully inter- 

 sperst with a dark yellow, which they use for their hlach u-ares, 

 being mixt with the 



" 3. Bed Blending day, which is of a dirty red colour, 



" 4. White day, so called it seems, though of a blewish colour, 

 and used for making yellow-colour'd ware, because yellow is the 

 lightest colour they make any ivare of." f 



* MS. Rawlinson, c. 128, fol. 896. f Page 97, vol. i, London, 1878. 



