348 THE WEDGWOODS. 



neglect so to do, then, and in either of the said cases, the said Wm. 

 Duesbury, his executors and administrators, shall and will only pay 

 to the said Jonathan Wedgwood, in proportion and after the rate 

 aforesaid, for such part and so mnch of every week as he shall 

 actually Repair for the said Win. Duesbury, his Executors and Ad- 

 ministrators, as aforesaid: and for the true performance of all and every 

 the Articles, Covenants, and agreements aforesaid, Each of the said 

 Parties bindeth himself to the other in the Penal sum of Eifty 

 pounds firmly by these presents. In "Witness whereof the said 

 Parties have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and Year 

 first before written. 



How long this Jonathan Wedgwood was connected with 

 the Derby China "Works I have not, as yet, been able to 

 ascertain, but it is probable that he continued in Derby for 

 some years. At all events I find by the registers of St. 

 Alkmund/s church, in that town, that a Jonathan Wedgwood, 

 on the 12th of November, 1785 thirteen years after the 

 date of the above draft of agreement was married to Mary 

 Stenson ; and three years before this time, September 22nd, 

 1782, Abijah Tyrrell had married Amy Wedgwood, both of 

 that parish. I have reason to believe that the Jonathan 

 Wedgwood whose agreement I have given, was born at 

 Ellenborough in 1735 ; that he migrated to Burslem, where, 

 by his wife Sarah Wedgwood, one of his children was born 

 in 1757, and that the Jonathan and Amy, whose marriages 

 I have just noted at Derby, were his son and daughter. 



Of late years it is well to note that a member of the 

 Wedgwood family a family of inventors and of practical 

 and philosophical minds discovered a mode of making 

 cbina ware from guano. Of this highly interesting ware 

 an example, a fifle bowl, is preserved in Mr. Mayer's 

 museum. It bears the following inscription : " Manu- 

 factured by Saml- Alcock & Co., from Guano prepared by 

 Abner Wedgwood, from whom the idea emanated. Staf- 

 fordshire Potteries, 1854." 



