Figure 3  Hand-colored lithographed map, F. W. Beers and Co., Atlas of the State of New Jersey, Topographical Map of Middlesex County, New Jersey, 1872. The pottery towns in the Middlesex County area (South Amboy, Old Bridge, Cheesequake, and Sayreville [Roundabout]) are shown here, along with the likely location of the pot house and land that John Schermerhorn bought an interest in from James Morgan Jr. in May 1809.