Another perspective on 18th century New England nails comes from "Nailer Tom's Diary", the journal of Thomas B. Hazard, a blacksmith who worked in Rhode Island in the 18th and early 19th centuries. This was published in 1930 by the Marymount press in Boston if memory serves. For the years 1782 to 1786, the years I have read through so far, he mentions the following kinds of nails: shingle, plank, deck, clinch, pump, shoe, cart, 8d, and "larth" (lath ?). He also writes of making brads, floor brads, spikes, and shoe tacks. Charles Keller