Note 280 — Part II: Pottery Evidence

Export records for the York River should be treated with some caution as goods often were imported from one place and later exported to another. But if we accept the 1739 and 1745 Virginia Gazette references (Watkins, footnotes 38 and 41) as being to wares of Yorktown manufacture, by the same token we must draw comparable conclusions from the Naval Office Lists for Accomac (Eastern Shore of Virginia), which show "1 shipment" of "stoneware" exported to Maryland in 1749. Similarly we would have to assume that there was an earthenware factory operating near the James River in 1755 when the records list the exporting of "2 crates Earthenware" to the Rappahannock. Such conclusions may, indeed, be correct, though there is as yet no evidence to support them. Naval Office Lists, Public Records Office, London; cf. Commodity Analysis of Imports and Exports, Accomac, Virginia, 1726-1769, and for the Rappahannock, Virginia, 1726-1769 microfilm books compiled under the direction of John H. Cox, University of California, 1939 (unpublished).