. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 12. :5. ; ''' So large an amount implies a wholesale purchase from a potter. Was William Rogers, then, the "poor potter" of Yorktown? Scattered throughout the records are references to several William Roget ses from 17th- and 18th-century Virginia (see Appendix I), hut none seems likely to refer to the ""poor potter" until one reaches Yorktown. Then- a deed is recorded from the "Trustees to the Port Land in Yorktown," granting two lots of land on \Ia\ 19, 1711, to "William Rogers aforesaid Brewe
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 12. :5. ; ''' So large an amount implies a wholesale purchase from a potter. Was William Rogers, then, the "poor potter" of Yorktown? Scattered throughout the records are references to several William Roget ses from 17th- and 18th-century Virginia (see Appendix I), hut none seems likely to refer to the ""poor potter" until one reaches Yorktown. Then- a deed is recorded from the "Trustees to the Port Land in Yorktown," granting two lots of land on \Ia\ 19, 1711, to "William Rogers aforesaid ; "" That he was a brewer admittedly is a '» C. m Watkins, //;⢠Cultural Histor) oj Marlborough, I inia, (Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, National Museum Bulletin 253), Washington: Smith- sonian Institution, in press. -'" York County Records: Deeds & Bonds, vol. 2, 1701-1711, p. io~> (In York County Courthouse, Yorktown, Va.). weak clue to his being a potter. But, despite this, it is necessary to pursue this William Rogers further. These two lots were granted to Rogers by the Trustees in accordance with previous acts for establishing port towns. Yorktown had been established accord- ing to the Act for Ports and Towns in 1691, and Rogers' lots were numbers 51 and 55 (see plat, fig. 1 ), lying contiguously on the northern border of the town between Read and Nelson Streets. To this day they continue to bear the same numbers. For year after year nothing appears in the York County records to indicate that William Rogers was connected even remotely with a pottery works. I I in he was soon prospering as a brewer is suggested by the mention of "Roger's [sic] best Virga ailc," as selling at sixpence per quart, in a list of liquor prices pre- sented for Yorktown tavern keepers on March 19, 7J Ki ^Jf:'^'- ' i »;^_ «(B *v £�. /i ,, - , ^ y* Z?itf f'Tts/o ?/*r#y fa ****** rag rf'yy T
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