I am not a glass person (but I studied Engish with one in High School) and
what I found very interesting in regards is

1) On TV "Connexions" it was shown that glass was a primary motivator for
the settlement of "Virginia" for different reasons. and the early
archaeological record reflects early glass production assemblages.

2) How little early glass production is actually presented. A particular
"glass house" model is at the the Jones Museum of Glass and Cermaics in
Maine, on Sebago Lake near Naples, ME. It's very interesting, a diorama, of
a circular glass house, with multiple firing holes around a "pumpkin" like
structure.

3) Apparently the historic record has little about glass production sites,
for reasons that are unclear perhaps. Social class? Placement in towns? Why
can't we find them in the early records? Does this say something also about
our perceptions of the past, through the looking glass, much is lost?

4) Was glass so regulated that it "jumped" into the Industrial Revolution
and was never produced in great enough quantities whether we in the Colonies
wanted to produce it or not?

Some of the questions bandied about.

George Myers