For information about ordering my books, exhibit catalog and published research articles, please send me a message through the contact page. Most of my books are published by Historic Beverly in Massachusetts, and available through their museum bookstore located at the historic John Cabot House in Beverly, as well as the museum’s online shop. But they are also available through various bookstores and retailers across America, Canada, and the United Kingdom, including Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Walmart, Bookshop.org, Thrift Books, the Harvard Book Store, Porter Square Books in Boston, McNally Jackson in New York City and Shakespeare & Co. in New York City, among many other retailers, including some of the largest independent bookstores in America, whereas below are just some of the stores that list my books on their website. Also available internationally through such retailers as Waterstones and Hatchard’s, the oldest bookstore in London, among many others. My books are also available in museum libraries, such as Historic Deerfield in Deerfield, Massachusetts and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.
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Coming in 2026! A Monumental History: Stories of Red Earthenware Production in Western Massachusetts, the Berkshires and Vermont
Western Massachusetts has a rich history inhabited by various Native American tribes, which was later settled by English Puritans in places like Springfield, Massachusetts and the Connecticut River Valley Region in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. The region also has a history of red earthenware production dating to the 1700s, later followed by stoneware in the 1800s. The most successful type may have been the black glazed teapots produced in Whately, Massachusetts. However, red earthenware production seems to have been more widespread in the 1700s with some production that can be traced back to the Charlestown and South Danvers, Massachusetts area before the American Revolution. This book is the first of its kind to examine documented red earthenware from Western Massachusetts based on surviving objects, period documents and archaeological artifacts. The book also takes a look at some of Vermont’s lesser-known red earthenware businesses, some of which are tied to Central and Western Massachusetts. Stay tuned for publication details!
Available in 2026: An Early Industry of Household Wares: The Red Earthenware of Salem Village, South Danvers, Peabody and Salem, Massachusetts Volume I
The Salem Village, South Danvers (Peabody) and Salem, Massachusetts area has a deep-rooted history, dating back to the seventeenth century, perhaps best-known today for the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 and Salem’s maritime trade in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. However, the area was also the location of one of New England’s most important red earthenware industries, dating back to the 1600s. The area’s pottery businesses were also intertwined with pottery production in Charlestown, Massachusetts before the American Revolution, and the industry in Bristol County, Massachusetts, as well as other parts of New England. This book is the first of its kind to explore the red earthenware produced in this part of coastal Massachusetts through archaeology, historical records and surviving objects. Volume I will run 500-600 pages. Stay tuned for publication details!
Available 2026: An Early Industry of Household Wares: The Red Earthenware of Salem Village, South Danvers, Peabody and Salem, Massachusetts Volume II
The Salem Village, South Danvers (Peabody) and Salem, Massachusetts area has a rich history of Quakers, many of whom were intertwined with local red earthenware production, as well as Quaker potters living elsewhere in New England. The early history of these Quakers is marked by persecution, although it took a long time, but they were eventually met with acceptance. This area was also home to some potters in Salem after 1750, as well as migrants, who influenced local production from France, Germany, Italy and Portugal. This book is the first of its kind to explore the red earthenware produced in this part of coastal Massachusetts through archaeology, historical records and surviving objects. Volume II will run 800-900 pages. Stay tuned for publication details!
America’s Great Awakening and Migration: The Red Earthenware of Western New York
The historic beginnings of the Western New York region in many ways emerged following the American Revolution, and the Treaty of Hartford in 1786, although the area shared a deep-rooted tradition with Native tribes that pre-date contact with Europeans. However, the 1790s and 1800s saw a widespread migration with people relocating from elsewhere in America and Europe. Among the businesses that began to grow was the production of red earthenware, where some potters relocated from elsewhere in the Northeast, the Mid-Atlantic region and Europe. This book is the first of its kind to explore the red earthenware produced in Western New York through archaeology, historical records and surviving objects. $72 for each volume or both for $130, but prices may vary from retailer to retailer.
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An Influential Family of Early Potters: The Clarks of New Hampshire and Related Businesses
New Hampshire’s red earthenware industry in the eighteenth century was largely contained to wares imported to the southern part of the state and along the seacoast by potters in Massachusetts, especially those from the pre-1775 industry in Charlestown, Massachusetts. But there was also some local colonial production, such as Samuel Marshall, who operated a red earthenware business in Portsmouth before 1750. There may have also been some obscure potters who are in many ways forgotten today, and others who are only remembered based on one or two objects that survive, including some production in the Concord area that happened as early as 1765. But it was in 1775 when Peter Clark left Braintree, Massachusetts for Lyndeborough, New Hampshire that a transformation happened with the state’s red earthenware industry. Clark and his family helped ignite production in the state for over 100 years that spread through Concord, up towards Lake Winnipesaukee, the White Mountains and into Vermont. This book is the first of its kind to take an in-depth look at the red earthenware made by the Clarks in New Hampshire through archaeology, a historical context, an aesthetic appeal and how this family was instrumental with red earthenware production in New Hampshire and Vermont, circa 1775-1880s. $72 plus shipping, but prices may vary from retailer to retailer.
From One Town Came Many: The Red Earthenware Industry of Ancient North Yarmouth, Maine
The red earthenware industry in North Yarmouth, Maine was established in the 1790s, and for the next century, it flourished through a group of multigenerational family potteries. Many were located at Yarmouth Corner, which included production from at least five family businesses: Brooks, Cleaves, Corliss, Foster and Thomas. Much of this history had been forgotten due to 20th century development and a lack of published documentation. But thanks to historic preservation, archaeologists, museums and family records, the history of this industry has been reidentified. $60 plus shipping, but prices may vary from retailer to retailer.
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A City on the River: The Early Red Earthenware of the Hartford, Connecticut Area
The stoneware manufactured in Hartford, Connecticut in the nineteenth century is a well-known subject today, which served a larger area than just the local marketplace, utilizing the Connecticut River for transportation. In fact, some of the stoneware was inspired by the industry in New York City. Although, it was red earthenware that was actually the original type of household pottery produced in the area, dating as early as the 1700s, where some of the early wares may have been influenced by production in Massachusetts. In some years, thousands of pieces of red earthenware were produced, utilizing the local clays, resulting in a wide range of accomplished wares, some of which were embellished with dramatic styles of hand-applied slip decoration. The most famous of the potters were the Seymours, the Goodwins and Hervey Brooks, but there were other potters as well. This book is the first of its kind to take an in-depth look at the various types of wares manufactured in the Hartford, Connecticut area, as well as the variety of domestic red earthenware artifacts recovered along the Connecticut River within eighteenth and nineteenth century archaeological contexts. $58 plus shipping, but prices may vary from retailer to retailer.
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A Celebrated Industry: The Historic Wares of Southeastern Massachusetts, Bristol County and Cape Cod
The aesthetics of utilitarian domestic red earthenware are what collectors and museums have been drawn to for more than a century now, although, it was likely an important factor in the marketplace even when red earthenware was originally produced in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. In New England, the wares manufactured in southeastern Massachusetts, Bristol County and Cape Cod were unquestionably at the forefront of the visual appeal of the region’s red earthenware production. The wares produced in this part of Massachusetts have it all: form, glaze, skill and refinement, transforming many of these objects into works of art that can be displayed at any art museum in America. This book is the first of its kind to explore this region’s red earthenware production through archaeology, a historical context, as well as the artistry and creativity behind this industry’s production. $44 plus shipping, but prices may vary from retailer to retailer.
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South Amesbury’s Red Earthenware & Stoneware: The 1791-1820 William Pecker Pottery
Red earthenware production in South Amesbury (Merrimacport), Massachusetts, dates to the eighteenth century, supplying households in northeastern Massachusetts, southern New Hampshire and probably other spots in New England, with everyday utilitarian wares. This multi-generational family business lasted for more than 100 years, making it one of the longest standing potteries in New England. The most famous of those employed in South Amesbury was William Pecker, who operated a pottery during the circa 1791-1820 period. Although, it is not widely known that Pecker was one of New England’s earliest potters to produce red earthenware and stoneware, perhaps only the second business to accomplish this feat in New England behind the Parker Pottery in Charlestown, Massachusetts in the 1740s. This book is the first of its kind to explore South Amesbury’s pottery production, the aesthetic appeal of these wars, archaeology and closely examine the stoneware manufactured by William Pecker. $18 plus shipping, but prices may vary from retailer to retailer.
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The Dawn of Independence, the Death of an Industry: The Pottery of Charlestown, Massachusetts
The red earthenware industry in Charlestown, Massachusetts supplied households throughout coastal New England with utilitarian wares, circa 1635-1775. The industry was unsurpassed in New England with production recovered as far north as Canada and as far south as the Carolinas. Dozens of potters and a number of businesses made up this industry; the most prominent years of production were 1740-1775. There was even an attempt to produce stoneware in the 1740s in competition with New York City, Philadelphia and Virginia. The identity of this industry was destroyed in 1775 during the Battle of Bunker Hill. More than 200 years later, this identity was revealed when archaeologists excavated part of Charlestown for Boston’s Big Dig Project. These important artifacts provide a better understanding of how far Charlestown’s pottery traveled before 1775. This book is the first of its kind, exploring the history of Charlestown’s industry, the pottery, the exports and its historical significance. $16 plus shipping.
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The Moses B. Paige Company: The Last of the Peabody Potteries
Peabody, Massachusetts has a rich history of utilitarian red earthenware production, dating back to the 1730s. The Osborns are likely the best-known potting family today, operating kilns on both sides of Central Street as early as 1736. The number of potters employed in this area was more than any other location in New England in the 18th and 19th centuries, influencing production throughout the region. Among them was Peter Clark, whose family was instrumental in red earthenware production after 1775 in New Hampshire, as well as Osborn family members who relocated to New Hampshire. Demand for local red earthenware production decreased as the mid-19th century approached, and only two potteries remained in Peabody after 1850. Joseph Reed, who had purchased a company from the Osborns at 102 Central Street, manufactured pottery and trained a group of important potters, including Charles Lawrence, who established a significant business in Beverly, Massachusetts about 1866. By 1872, Moses Paige had relocated from Maine, finding employment with Reed, and purchasing the company in 1876. The pottery became known as the Moses B. Paige Company, where Paige accomplished the unthinkable, reviving the local red earthenware tradition, which had largely disappeared elsewhere in New England. This book is the first of its kind, identifying the history of the somewhat forgotten Moses Paige Pottery and the company’s production, which is often misinterpreted today. $12 plus shipping.
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The Beverly Pottery: The Wares of Charles A. Lawrence
Born in Danvers, Massachusetts in 1829, Charles Albert (Solares) Lawrence learned about household red earthenware production as an apprentice in Peabody in the 1850s and early 1860s. He established his own pottery business in Beverly around the completion of the Civil War. Lawrence produced traditional household pottery in the early years, often decorated with multiple colors of slip, a style of decoration rarely found in Massachusetts in the 1800s. By the early 1870s, Lawrence introduced a new line of artware to the Beverly and Boston marketplace, which at the time was unique for American production. Only a few years later, American consumers found themselves infatuated with the decorative wares made by some of the best manufacturers in Europe and China at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. This event triggered the American art pottery movement, a change that Lawrence had already foreseen in the industry. For about forty years, the wares made at the C.A. Lawrence Pottery were among the most innovative products made anywhere in America, bringing together household pottery, artware and commemorative objects unlike any other business in New England. This book is the first of its kind, exploring the life of Charles A. Lawrence, the history of the Beverly Pottery, and the totality of this company’s production. $12 plus shipping.
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Exhibit Catalog
Potters on the Merrimac: A Century of New England Ceramics
Domestic production of everyday ceramic wares began almost immediately following the establishment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony on the shores of North America. In Essex County, Massachusetts, on the banks of the Merrimack River, generations of families produced ceramic vessels of varying dimensions and purpose, utilizing local clay deposits to fulfill the needs of their community, and ensure the livelihood of their kin. They built workshops, warehouses, kilns, and homes, which passed to the next generation, along with the knowledge of their trade.The curatorial team of the Custom House Maritime Museum, along with Guest Curator and collector Justin W. Thomas, has assembled an exhibit focusing on the production, and material remains of multiple potteries and potting families along the Merrimack River. Primarily from the periods of the eighteenth century prior to the Revolutionary War to the mid-nineteenth century, the exhibit also includes examples from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Arts and Crafts movement in Newburyport, Massachusetts. The exhibit runs from September 2019 through April 2020. $12 plus shipping.
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- Contributed an essay to the 2025 issue, titled, Nathaniel Sellers: A Postmaster and Red Earthenware Potter of Upper Hanover, Pennsylvania
New England Antiques Journal Research Articles – PDFs $5 each
- October 2013 – Buried in Merrimacport? William Pecker, his pots and his kiln
- January 2014 – From Beverly to Beantown: The pottery of Charles Lawrence
- October 2014 – Utilitarian Redware in Massachusetts: The Chase family pottery
- August 2015 – William Pecker, a forgotten stoneware potter from Merrimacport, Mass.
- February 2016 – A Charlestown Sugar Bowl: The rediscovery of a redware masterpiece
- August 2016 – A Pottery Moves to New Hampshire: Peter Clark and his family in Lyndeborough
- April 2017 – A Pioneering Potter: Samuel Marshall of Portsmouth, New Hampshire
- November 2017 – Digging into the Peabody Potteries: Archaeology and red earthenware
Maine Antique Digest Research Articles – PDFs $5 each
- February 2018 – The Dodges and Their Potteries
- June 2018 – The Pottery Industry in Southeastern Massachusetts
- October 2018 – The Red Earthenware Available in the 18th and 19th Centuries in New York City
- May 2019 – The Bradford Family Potteries in Massachusetts
- October 2019 – The North Yarmouth, Maine Pottery Industry, Circa 1791-1890
- June 2021 – The Red Earthenware Industry in Concord, New Hampshire
- April 2022 – Heber C. Kimball: A Mormon Potter from Western New York
- March 2023 – Abner S. Wight’s Red Earthenware Production in New Hampshire and Massachusetts
Antiques & Auction News Research Articles – PDFs $5 each
- June 22, 2018 – The Archeology of an 18th-Century Pottery in Lancaster, Pa
- December 7, 2018 – The Bell Pottery Collection at the Renfrew Museum in Waynesboro, Pa
- April 19, 2019 – The Albert Hastings Pitkin Collection
- June 7, 2019 – The Parkers’ Colonial Stoneware Production in Charlestown, Massachusetts
- June 28, 2019 – The 19th-And 20th-Century Stahl Family Pottery In Lehigh County, Pa
- October 4, 2019 – Thomas Chandler’s Pottery Production: McKissick Museum of the University of South Carolina Holds Innovative Exhibition
- August 16, 2019 – The Career, Research and Collection of Frederick H. Norton
- November 22, 2019 – Potters on the Merrimac: A Century of New England Ceramics
- February 28, 2020 – A Look At Red Earthenware Made in Mason, Ohio
- August 21, 2020 – A Look At 19th-Century Red Earthenware Figures Made In Pennsylvania
- January 1, 2021 – The Red Earthenware Manufactured in River Edge, New Jersey: A Look At Bergen County Pottery
- February 5, 2021 – Special Folk Art Ceramic Vase Made At The Maurice Knight Chemical Stoneware Plant In Akron, Ohio: Carl Funk’s Sewer Tile Vase Is Dated 1935
- April 9, 2021 – The Wares Made by John Betts Gregory in Clinton, NY: An Examination of Empire State Regional Redware
- July 2, 2021 – The Story of Andrew Pitman: A Revolutionary War Veteran Turned Potter in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
- October 15, 2021 – Carl Mehwaldt: A Pioneer German-American Potter And 19th-Century Immigrant
- March 4, 2022 – 19th-Century Red Earthenware Candle Molds Manufactured in Southeastern Pennsylvania and Western New York
- May 27, 2022 – Christian Klinker: A Pioneer German Potter From Bucks County, Pa.
- July 5, 2022 – A Series Of Plates And Flowerpots Made By Absalom Bixler In Lancaster County, Pa. – Rare Pennsylvania Redware In New England Museum
- September 2, 2022 – The Vickers Family Of Pennsylvania: Abolitionists, Farmers And Quaker Potters – A Short Examination Into A Unique American Ceramics Story
- October 21, 2022 – The Frey Pottery: The Forgotten History Of An American Red Earthenware Manufacturer
- December 16, 2022 – Roy Blind: A World War II Veteran And Sewer Pipe Folk Artist From Ohio
- February 3, 2023 – The Galloway Terra-Cotta Company Of Philadelphia: A Brief History And Examination
- February 17, 2023 – New Stoneware Exhibit: The Life And Legacy Of Free Black Potter Thomas W. Commeraw: Pottery Show On View At New York Historical Society In Manhattan
- April 14, 2023 – A Rare Example Of 19th-Century Red Earthenware From Parkesburg, Chester County, Pa: Folk Art Redware Desk Caddy Found In Canada
- May 19, 2023 – A Painted Red Earthenware Jar Marked “Mason & Co. Phil.”
- July 7, 2023 – The Pottery Of John Fritz: An American Journeyman Migrant Potter
- September 22, 2023 – Wide Selection Of 20th Century Pottery From North Carolina Found In New England: A Brief Examination Of Asian-Influenced Pottery From Jugtown Pottery
- October 20, 2023 – A Look At 19th-Century Red Earthenware And Stoneware Buildings, Houses And Log Cabins
- February 23, 2024 – A Study Of 19th-Century Painted Terracotta Wall Plates Marked “Coulter & Long, Philadelphia”
- March 8, 2024 – David Spinner: An Early Important Pennsylvania-German Potter in Bucks County, Pa.
- April 12, 2024 – A Painted Sewer Tile Figure Of A Cat Recently Found In Southern New Jersey
- July 26, 2024 – A Collection Of Pottery That Descended In The Bach Family Of Allentown, Pa.
- August 23, 2024 – Tiles Made At The Moravian Tile Works In Doylestown, Pa., That Adorn Fireplace Surrounds In York, Maine
- September 6, 2024 – The 19th- And 20th-Century Stahl Family Pottery In Lehigh County, Pa.
- November 1, 2024 – The Wingender Family Pottery Of Haddonfield, N.J.
- December 6, 2024 – A Century Of Red Earthenware And Stoneware Production In Huntingdon County, Pa., Ca. 1811-1912
- March 14, 2025 – Factory Painted Red Earthenware Produced In The 1800s
- May 2, 2025- The Barclay Company Of Narberth, Pa.
- May 23, 2025 – Miller Red Earthenware: A History Of The Family’s Production In Adams County, Pa.
- June 20, 2025 – The Dry Family Pottery Of Stoney Brook And Dryville: A Look At Berks County, Pa., Redware, Ca. 1806-80
- July 11, 2025 – Extended Version – Miller Red Earthenware: A History Of The Family’s Production In Adams County, Pa.
- October 10, 2025 – The Singer Family Pottery Of Haycock Township, Bucks County, Pa.: A Brief Examination Of Simon Singer’s Slip-Script Redware
- October 17, 2025 – The Hobo In American Folk Art
- November 14, 2025- Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth: The Father Of American Beekeeping
Antiques & the Arts Weekly Research Articles – PDFs $5 each
- September 20, 2019 – A History of Pottery Production Along the Merrimack River
- January 31, 2020 – Early Red Earthenware & Stoneware Found on Staten Island
- February 28, 2020 – Early Pottery Manufactured in Champion, N.Y.
- July 31, 2020 – Thrown, Fired and Glazed: The Redware Tradition From Pennsylvania and Beyond at the Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum in Lancaster, Pennsylvania (cover story)
- July 8, 2022 – Rare Red Earthenware Urn Discovered At Newburyport Estate Auction
- August 5, 2022 – A Group Of Important Objects From The Dodge Family, Portland, Maine
- October 14, 2022 – The New England Pottery Company Of East Boston, Mass.
- November 4, 2022 – Group Of Important Objects From The Chase & Goold Families, Portland, Maine
- December 16, 2022 – Unique Red Earthenware Rediscovered In Western New York
- February 24, 2023 – A Group Of Stoneware Face Vessels Thought To Have Been Made in West Tennessee
- March 17, 2023 – The Abraham Hews Pottery Of Weston & North Cambridge, Mass.
- April 14, 2023 – William Pecker: A Massachusetts Red Earthenware & New York City Stoneware Potter
- May 12, 2023 – Ermano & Luigi Paolucci: Two Italian Immigrant Potters In Peabody, Mass.
- June 2, 2023 – The Other John Bell: Not A Pennsylvania Potter But London Sculptor
- June 30, 2023 – Guy Daugherty: A Roadside Craftsmen Potter
- August 4, 2023 – The Pisgah Forest Pottery Of Arden, N.C.
- August 11, 2023 – Eighteenth Century Earthenware Pitcher Found In A Seventeenth Century Bake Oven
- September 8, 2023 – Two North Carolina Vases Owned By A Cambridge, Mass. Family
- October 13, 2023 – End-Of-The-Day Porcelain From The Victor Insulator Company
- January 12, 2024 – Two Important New York Slip-Script Red Earthenware Plates
- February 9, 2024 – The Salt-Glazed Stoneware Made By Russell Crook, South Lincoln, Mass.
- March 15, 2024 – Early German Stoneware & Red Earthenware Tiles Found In New England
- April 19, 2024 – Religious Red Earthenware Tobacco Jars Manufactured In The Mid-Atlantic Region & Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- June 7, 2024 – Nathaniel Rochester’s Red Earthenware Pottery
- August 16, 2024 – An Important Red Earthenware Jug From Western New York
- September 27, 2024 – A Red Earthenware Pitcher Marked ‘Nathaniel Sellers Upper Hanover, Pa’
- January 10, 2025 – Japanese Design Influence On Painted Red Earthenware In Late Nineteenth Century Beverly, Mass.
- March 14, 2025 – A Rediscovered Battle Of Bunker Hill Claims Book From Charlestown, Mass.
- April 25, 2025 – Amos Seavey, A Stoneware Potter In Chelsea, Mass.
- June 20, 2025 – Charles Graham’s Brooklyn Stoneware Pottery Production
- August 1, 2025 – A Red Earthenware Pitcher Discovered At The Reverend Jonathan Atkinson House
- December 12, 2025 – The Southwick Family Of Potters Of Salem & South Danvers, Mass.
Untapped New York Research Articles – Available Online Free
New England Pet & Home Magazine
Newburyport Magazine
The Winter 2019 issue of Newburyport Magazine published a feature story about the pottery exhibit that I guest curated at the Custom House Maritime Museum in Newburyport, Massachusetts, titled, Potters on the Merrimac: A Century of New England Ceramics. See above on this page for more information about the exhibit.
Fall 2019 Newsletter of the American Ceramic Circle
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