>That is probably all true, except some of the things we encounter in New York
> City, such as the ca. 1903 NY History Club reporting that the now non-extant
> Walton House, "The magnificence of which led to the Stamp Act" backed up by
> citing the participants and the discussions in Parliament. Walton was a
major
> shipbuilder and held extensive shipyards in the northern part of Downtown.
> New York appears to me as the major repair and service port for ships coming
> and going and also becomes a major builder after wresting away the ability
to
> make anchors and other hardware from royal patent.
>
> Some of the other beliefs maybe true for example, that maybe "creamware"
> resulted from a mistake in the making of "pearlware" that Wedgwood, the
> epitome of merchandising, sold it to the Crown thereby creating "Royal"
> creamware designs that were widely accepted sometimes we wonder if they were
> of the same age of pearlware, just one sold more "officially" with
> appropriate approval, a fortunate accident in the history of the discovery
> and use of ceramics. For many years, until around 1930, huge quantities of
> clay were received from England in Ohio for ceramic production.
>
> Another odd fact of history in regard to broken dishes is the vitamin
> thiamin. The human body paradoxically, discharges all of it when too much is
> present, creating deficiency, for example when a fish and corn only or fish
> and rice diet is solely eaten, though both contain ample amounts of thiamin,
> the body removes all. Studies in controlled hospital settings during WW II
by
> the American medical establishment showed that given a good diet with just
> the thiamin removed led to mild hallucinations and many broken dishes along
> with other symptoms.
>
> Another problem is a belief that a large hiatus in certain ceramics, as much
> as twenty-five years, exists in the record as many types were not purchased
> or shipped here and sat stockpiled before being "dumped" cheaply on the
> American market leading to a creation of protection of American ceramic
> makers. This seemingly happened around the 1820s(?) till the 1840s making it
> hard to use manufacturer's dates for ceramics, since the lag creates
problems
> with the record. In some sense the "armorial" porcelains from China seem to
> be the best ceramic to use for dating! And they're half way around the
world!
> It's similar to the date of introduction I imagine for some of the places in
> the Midwest, and if true, may skew those dates even further.
>
> Of course this makes a case for excavating sites in NYC in landfill with
> known dating of filling, but this too is curious. Whenever there has been a
> recession in NYC, there began landfill, so much so that a French observer
> remarked that Americans had seemed to solved their unemployment problem in
> that upwards of 5000 American Revolutionary War veterans were involved with
> the filling of land after the Revolution according to him. New York has
> always created land from "water rights" but I'm not sure that agrees with
the
> Dongan patent strictly interpreted would place that power in Albany, but
> wasn't New York City once Capitol of the Nation?