1. A detailed historical account of John Bartlam’s activities in America is recorded in Bradford L. Rauschenberg, “John Bartlam, Who Established ‘new Pottworks in South Carolina’ and Became the First Successful Creamware Potter in America,” Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts 17, no. 2 (1991): 1–66. 2. The project reported here has been, since the early 1970s, a dream of Bradford L. Rauschenberg, director of research (retired) at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) in Old Salem, North Carolina, and mine, archaeologist and research professor at the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology (SCIAA) at the University of South Carolina. More recently, in 1991, Carl Steen, president of the Diachronic Research Foundation in Columbia, South Carolina, shared the enthusiasm of those of us interested in eighteenth-century pottery to search for Bartlam at Cain Hoy and joined me as coprincipal investigator for the project. George Terry, System Vice Provost for Libraries and Collections at the University of South Carolina, has long had an interest in locating Bartlam’s potworks. This joint SCIAA/Diachronic/MESDA project was made possible through a historic preservation grant from the South Carolina Department of Archives and History. The full report on the project is contained in Stanley South, John Bartlam: Staffordshire in Carolina, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology Research Manuscript Series 231 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 2004). 3. Josiah Wedgwood, F.R.S., Potter to Her Majesty, An Address to the Workmen in the Pottery, on the Subject of Entering into the Service of Foreign Manufacturers (Newcastle, StaVordshire, Eng.: Printed by J. Smith, 1783), reprinted in Rauschenberg, “John Bartlam, Who Established ‘new Pottworks in South Carolina,’” pp. 50–57; John Ramsay, American Potters and Pottery (New York: Tudor Publishing, 1947). 4. South Carolina Gazette, September 21–28, 1765. 5. Ibid.; South Carolina Archives, Mortgages, 3a, p. 343; South Carolina Gazette and Country Journal, June 6, 1769; South Carolina Gazette, January 31, 1771, suppl.; Rauschenberg, “John Bartlam, Who Established ‘new Pottworks in South Carolina,’” p. 13. 6. Stanley South, “The Ceramic Ware of the Potter Rudolph Christ at Bethabara and Salem, North Carolina, 1786–1821,” Conference on Historic Site Archaeology Papers, 1968, vol. 3 (1970): 70–72. 7. South Carolina Gazette, April 11, 1774. 8. South Carolina Archives, Wills and Inventories; Kershaw County Deeds, b-132. 9. Stanley South, “The Ceramic Forms of the Potter Gottfied Aust at Bethabara, North Carolina, 1755–1771,” Conference on Historic Site Archaeology Papers 1965–1966, vol. 1 (1967): 33–52; idem, “The Ceramic Ware of the Potter Rudolph Christ at Bethabara and Salem, North Carolina, 1786–1821,” Conference on Historic Site Archaeology Papers 1968, vol. 4 (1970): 70–72; idem, “A Comment on Alkaline Glazed Stoneware,” Conference on Historic Site Archaeology Papers 1970, vol. 5 (1971): 171–85. 10. Ramsay, American Potters and Pottery, p. 98. 11. Bradford Rauschenberg, “A Sprigg Mold for ‘Flowers for Fine Pottery,’” Conference on Historic Site Archaeology Papers 1968, vol. 2 (1970): 107–22; idem, “John Bartlam, Who Established ‘new Pottworks in South Carolina,’” p. 90. 12. Stanley South, “Palmetto Parapets: Exploratory Archaeology at Fort Moultrie, South Carolina, 338ch50,” Anthropological Studies 1 (Columbia: University of South Carolina), pp. 180–81. 13. Kenneth E. Lewis, Camden: A Frontier Town, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Anthropological Studies 2 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1976), p. 71. 14. Rauschenberg, “John Bartlam, Who Established ‘new Pottworks in South Carolina,’” p. 33. 15. Since the proposal for funding this project was written, Rauschenberg published his historical and archaeological background reports on the Bartlam, Ellis, Christ pottery operations, including some illustrations of possible Bartlam-made pieces that have survived. See Rauschenberg, “John Bartlam, Who Established ‘new Pottworks in South Carolina.’” 16. South, John Bartlam: Staffordshire in Carolina. 17. To explore whether these fragments were porcelain or pearlware I used the scanning electron microscope to compare the elements present and found that this patina contains the same ingredients as the paste. The results are reported in South, John Bartlam: Staffordshire in Carolina, pp. 77–88. 18. Rauschenberg, “John Bartlam, Who Established ‘new Pottworks in South Carolina,’” p. 35. 19. Stanley South, The Search for John Bartlam at Cain Hoy: American’s First Creamware Potter, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology Research Manuscript Series 219 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1993), p. 35. 20. South Carolina Gazette and Country Journal, March 13, 1770. 21. South Carolina Gazette, October 4, 1770. 22. Ibid., October 11, 1770.