1. For further information, see John W. Reps, Tidewater Towns: City Planning in Colonial Virginia and Maryland (Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1972).

2. Other institutions providing assistance include the Anne Arundel County Trust for Preservation, the Maryland Historical Trust, the National Park Service, the Kaplan Foundation, and the National Geographic Society. Architectural research support has been provided by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

3. In earthfast construction, the principal structural members of a building are set directly into the ground. For further information, see Cary Carson, Norman F. Barka, William M. Kelso, Garry W. Stone, and Dell Upton, “Impermanent Architecture in the Southern American Colonies,” Winterthur Portfolio 16, no. 2/3 (summer/autumn 1981): 135–96.

4. Louis L. Lipski, and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware: Tin-Glazed Earthenware 1600–1800 (London: Sotheby’s, 1984).

5. Al Luckenbach and John Kille, “Delftware Motifs and the Dating of Rumney’s Tavern, London Town, Maryland (ca. 1724),” American Ceramic Circle (in press).

6. Al Luckenbach and Patricia Dance, “Drink and Be Merry: Glass Vessels from Rumney’s Tavern (18AN48), London Town, Maryland,” Maryland Archeology 34, no. 2 (1998): 1–10.

7. Lisa Plumley and Al Luckenbach, “Tracing Larrimore Point Through Time: Excavations at 18an1084,” Maryland Archeology 36, no. 1 (2000): 11–24.

8. Jonathan Horne made this suggestion, partially based on the known presence of a coffee pot, and partially on the use of a similarly sized cup in a delft tile store front picture, Dish of Coffee Boy.

9. Allan Kulikoff, Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680–1800 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986.)

10. John Brewer, The Pleasure of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997).

11. Ivor Noël Hume and Jonathan Horne both made this suggestion in independent personal communications.

12. Dennis Cockell, “Some Finds of Pottery at Vauxhall Cross, London,” English Ceramic Circle Transactions 9, no. 2 (1974): 121, 129.

13. Ibid., p. 126.

14. Frank Britton, London Delftware (London: Jonathan Horne, 1986), p. 71.

15. April Fehr, Suzanne Sanders, Martha Williams, David Landon, Andrew Madsen, Kathleen Child and Michele Williams, “Cultural Resources Management Investigations for the Main Street Reconstruction Project, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland,” report to the City of Annapolis, 1997.

16. Al Luckenbach, Patricia Dance, and Carolyn Gryczkowski, “Taverns and Urban Life in the Early 18th-Century Chesapeake: A Comparison of Two Assemblages from Anne Arundel County, Maryland,” paper presented at the Society for Historical Archaeology, Atlanta, Georgia, 1998.

17. Ann Smart Martin, “The Role of Pewter as Missing Artifact: Attitudes Towards Tablewares in Late-Eighteenth-Century Virginia,” Historical Archaeology 23, no. 2 (1989): 1–27.