Typical Shipments of Earthenware from North Devon

(Sample entries from Port Books, verbatim)

BARNSTAPLE 1665[16]

Date Ship Master For In Cargo Subsidy
s d
26 Aug
1665		 Exchange of
Biddeford		 Wm Titherly New England 150 doz. of
Earthenware		 7-6
4 Sept
1665		 Philipp of
Biddeford		 Edmond
Prickard		 Virginia 30 doz. of
Earthenware		 1-6
28 Nov
1665		 Providence of
Barnstaple		 Nicholas
Taylor		 Virginia 20 doz. of
Earthenware		 1-0

BARNSTAPLE AND BIDEFORD, 1680[17]

Date Ship Master Shipment
Aug 6th
1680		 Forester of
Barnstaple,
for Maryland		 Christopher Browning Twenty dozen of
Earthenware
Subsidy 1/
Sept 6 Loyalty of
Barnstaple		 Philip Greenslade 30 dozen of Earthenware
Andrew Hopkins, merchant
Subsidy 1/6

BARNSTAPLE, 1681[18]

Date Ship Master To Goods & Merchants
May 30
1681		 Seafare of
Bideford		 Bartholomew
Shapton		 New England Forty-two hundred [weight]
parcells of Earthenware
Subsidy 7/
28 June Hopewell of
Bideford		 Peter Prust Virginia 30 cwt. parcells of
Earthenware
Peter Luxeron Merchant
Subsidy 5/
Aug. 12 Beginning
of Bideford		 John Limbry Virginia 15 cwt. parcells of
Earthenware Subsidy 2/6
Richard Corkhill Merchant[19]

BIDEFORD, 1681[20]