[273] National Park Service collection, J. 13049 (G.S.), with label reading "Pyle House Green Spring. Built into brickwork of chimney—removed in securing brick for Lightfoot House by C.? T. (10.29.35)."
[274] Colonial Williamsburg archeological collections, E. R. 987D.19B, cat. 3275.
[275] "Inventory and Appraisement of estate of John Burdett," York County Records, Book 20, Wills and Inventories, pp. 46-49.
[276] Since this paper was written and the bird bottles identified, a number of additional fragments have been recognized among mid-eighteenth-century finds from Williamsburg excavations, including a small, pierced lug handle fitting the scar on the Geddy example (fig. 19, right). The hole through the handle lined up with that through the shoulder clearly indicating that their combined purpose was to provide an alternative method of suspension for use when the bottles were hung in trees.
[277] There is a long-established belief that Fulham was the principal source of 18th-century brown-stoneware vessels. While the art of making the ware was first developed there by John Dwight, the factory fell into decline after his death in 1703 and remained in virtual oblivion until the 19th century.
[278] Archeological area 2B2, context unknown.
[279] Mr. Maloney has pointed out that a margin of 150°F. is sufficient to make the difference between earthenware and stoneware.
[280] Export records for the York River should be treated with some caution as goods often were imported from one place and later exported to another. But if we accept the 1739 and 1745 Virginia Gazette references (Watkins, footnotes 38 and 41) as being to wares of Yorktown manufacture, by the same token we must draw comparable conclusions from the Naval Office Lists for Accomac (Eastern Shore of Virginia), which show "1 shipment" of "stoneware" exported to Maryland in 1749. Similarly we would have to assume that there was an earthenware factory operating near the James River in 1755 when the records list the exporting of "2 crates Earthenware" to the Rappahannock. Such conclusions may, indeed, be correct, though there is as yet no evidence to support them. Naval Office Lists, Public Records Office, London; cf. Commodity Analysis of Imports and Exports, Accomac, Virginia, 1726-1769, and for the Rappahannock, Virginia, 1726-1769 microfilm books compiled under the direction of John H. Cox, University of California, 1939 (unpublished).
[281] Virginia Gazette, June 20, 1745.
[282] Watkins, Part I, footnote 37.