Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . 9. 4 Smith, Works, p. 94. 6 Bruce, Economic History of Virginia, vol. 2, pp. 134-143. GNew Englands Plantation (1630), reprinted in Youngs Chronicles of Massachusetts, p. 244. 7 Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, ser. 2, vol. 3, p. Isham and Brown, Connecticut Houses, pp. 178-180. 37 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE contract for making brick as early as 1653, and still earlier mention of At Philadelphia a brickmaker was in the neighborhood before thecity was laid out, and within thre
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . 9. 4 Smith, Works, p. 94. 6 Bruce, Economic History of Virginia, vol. 2, pp. 134-143. GNew Englands Plantation (1630), reprinted in Youngs Chronicles of Massachusetts, p. 244. 7 Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, ser. 2, vol. 3, p. Isham and Brown, Connecticut Houses, pp. 178-180. 37 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE contract for making brick as early as 1653, and still earlier mention of At Philadelphia a brickmaker was in the neighborhood before thecity was laid out, and within three years many makers were at Only inRhode Island was brickmaking long Contradicting the oft-repeated assertion about old houses, that the bricks werebrought from England or from Holland, is the universal consensus of students ofthe records that importation of brick in the English colonies was negligible whereit was not completely unknown. Bruce states: It would appear that all bricksused in Virginia in this century were manufactured Of Maryland,. From a photograph by H. P. Cool! Figure 18. Warren house, Smiths Fort, Virginia, as it standsto-day. 1651 or 1652 Browne says: It is doubtful whether a single house was built of imported brick. 5A single case in New Haven, itself perhaps questionable, is, according to Isham,the only instance we know in New England, except for the ten thousand brickrecorded as to be shipped to Massachusetts Bay in 1628. 6 Several shipments,though amounting to but a few thousand brick altogether, were made to Only in New Netherlands do brick seem to have been imported to any 1 W. H. Browne, Maryland (1899), p. 166. 2 T. Westcott, The Historic Mansions and Buildings of Philadelphia (1877), pp. 15-16; and H. C. Wiseand H. \. Beidleman, Colonial Architecture ... in Pennsylvania . . (1913), pp. 16-17. 3 Isham and Brown, Rhode Island Houses, pp. 45-46. 4 Economic History, p. 134; likewise L. G. Tyler: Were Colonial Bricks I
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