1. Simeon Shaw, History of the Staffordshire Potteries (1829; reprint, Newton Abbot, Devon, England: David & Charles, Ltd. and Wakefield, Yorkshire, Eng.: S. R. Publishers Ltd., 1970), p. 30. 2. The pottery recovered from these sites is in the ceramics collection at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent. 3. St. Paul’s Church was built in 1828. It may have been Enoch Wood’s fault that the church had to be later demolished, as it has been suggested that the cache of ceramics buried under the foundations had made the structure unstable. 4. Miranda F. Goodby, “The Lost Collection of Enoch Wood,” Journal of the Northern Ceramics Society 9 (1992): 123–151. 5. John Ward, The Borough of Stoke-on-Trent (1843; reprint, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Eng.: Webberley Ltd., 1984), p. 264. 6. Neil Ewins, “Supplying the Present Wants of our Yankee Cousins, Staffordshire Ceramics and the American Market 1775–1880,” Journal of Ceramic History 15 (1997): 90.